Some security researchers even believe that the CAPTCHA-breaking software was using Tesseract--an open source image recognition software sponsored by Google itself and used in its book-scanning projects--to recognize the distorted characters.
Visitors can buy DVDs of disaster footage taken in the immediate aftermath of the quake: aerial before-and-after photographs of the city, and photo books that the vendors make sure to leave open to the most ghastly image of a half-dozen broken, gray young bodies, buried in the rubble.
The sheer intricacy of the Virgin empire sits oddly beside Mr Branson's image as a straightforward, open sort of man.
No advance information is available beyond the smoky teaser image above, leaving the door wide open for speculation.
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Of course, they're still in the starting stages at the moment -- a few outstanding issues include the amount of sunlight needed and if the geometry of the ISS window affects the image -- but NASA hopes to open up the ISERV to other scientists in a few months once it has all its kinks worked out.
The cinema systems also don't flicker -- a big complaint about the active lenses, which shutter open and closed very rapidly to try to send a different image to each eye.
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Air View allows users to hover with the S Pen over an email, calendar entry, image gallery or video to preview the content without having to open it or wait for screen transitions.
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When authorised users open the file, they see the watermark, which tells them that the image has not been manipulated or corrupted in some irreversible way.
Air View allows users to hover with the S Pen over an email, S Planner, image gallery, or video to preview the content without having to open it.
This could open up more possibilities, from concert ticket-buying apps based on a musician in an image, to a TripAdvisor-like travel review or Orbitz-like travel-booking app that pops up data related to the travel destination in the image.
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As a bonus tip for the advanced user, you can also open up PhotoShop or GiMP and overlay the original over the mosaic and alpha it out a bit to make the image pop a some more.
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