Neowin News Feed for: Boffins

Boffins unveil trillion calculations per second chip

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:52:25 +0000

US boffins have unveiled a prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose processor which they claim has the potential to clock up trillions of calculations per second. The Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System (Trips) was... Read more...

Boffins use Play-Doh to fool biometrics

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:56:58 +0000

Researchers from Clarkson University in New York have managed to fool biometric systems by making fingerprint copies using Play-Doh. Testing a range of biometric technologies the team created 60 fake fingers which were successfully authenticated... Read more...

Forget Euro 2004 - British boffins go global!

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:45:49 +0000

With Euro 2004 dreams over, a UK team is hoping to salvage some pride from the Imagine Cup - a global student programming challenge, held by Microsoft. The Brits have made the final in Sao... Read more...

MS boffins build real-time stereocam

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:11:18 +0000

Microsoft researchers have created a very impressive stereo camera dubbed i2i for instant messaging. This camera can actually track the user so that the video conversation can be given a more face-to-face conversation. ... Read more...

BT boffins develop SMS 'with feelings'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:46:56 +0000

BT has developed new technology that takes mobile messaging from the arena of 2D photo messages and voice clips to another level where "actual emotions can be conveyed between family and friends in a physical... Read more...