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Powerful Optical Telescope Captures First Binocular Images 83

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 07, 2008 @08:49PM from the i-can-see-clearly-now dept.

The Large Binocular Telescope consists of two 8.4-meter mirrors which function in tandem to provide resolution greater than that of the Hubble Telescope. The LBT's first "binocular" images were captured recently, marking the end to a long and laborious construction process. We previously discussed the LBT when images were captured from the first mirror to be installed. Quoting: "The LBT ... will combine light to produce the image sharpness equivalent to a single 22.8-meter (75-foot) telescope. 'To have a fully functioning binocular telescope is not only a time for celebration here at LBT, but also for the entire astronomy community,' UA Steward Observatory Director, Regents' Professor and LBT Corp. President Peter A. Strittmatter said. 'The images that this telescope will produce will be like none seen before. The power and clarity of this machine is in a class of its own. It will provide unmatched ability to peer into history, seeing the birth of the universe.'"

Submission + - Eat, Drink, and be Monitored

Submitted by

Reservoir Hill

on Monday November 26, 2007 @11:41AM

Reservoir Hill writes: "A new restaurant has opened on the leafy campus of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, fitted with a control center and two dozen hidden cameras devoted to exploring the question of what makes people eat and drink the way they do. Over the next 10 years, a team of more than 20 scientists will use the research facility to watch how people walk through the restaurant, what food catches their eye, whether they always sit at the same table and how much food they throw away. Researchers will examine environmental influences on eating behavior by making small changes in the color of the lights, in accompanying sounds, in the scents or the furniture. "We want to find out what influences people: colors, taste, personnel," said one researcher. "This restaurant is a playground of possibilities. We can ask the staff to be less friendly and visible or the reverse." University staff who want to eat at the new restaurant will have to sign a consent form agreeing to be watched."

Submission + - Writing web service using sun-java application S (linuxgalore.com)

Submitted by focus4 on Monday November 26, 2007 @11:41AM

focus4 writes: Writing web services on Sun Java Application Server. This article will guide you through steps to write java web service using Sun Java Application Server in Netbeans IDE 5.5.

Submission + - Wikiscience at its best...Oil Megaprojects! (theoildrum.com)

Submitted by

Prof. Goose

on Monday November 26, 2007 @11:38AM

Prof. Goose writes: "The problem with understanding oil supply is bad data, bad production data, bad reserves data, etc. These guys are trying to change that. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3282"

Submission + - NextRound of Qualcomm vs Nokia Battle Starts in UK (techluver.com)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Monday November 26, 2007 @11:37AM

Tech.Luver writes: "The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia Oyj, said on Monday it was confident it had not infringed the two technology patents U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm had sued it for in Britain.The hearing of the case, originally filed by Qualcomm in May last year, got underway at the High Court in London today._____________ Qualcomm is seeking an injunction that would stop Nokia selling products using the patents in Britain. It was unclear which Nokia products would be affected. Qualcomm has sued Nokia over the same or similar GSM patents also in the United States, Germany, France, Italy and China. None of the cases has reached a verdict or settlement._____________ Last week Qualcomm won a round in a different battle with Nokia as a U.S. trade court tossed out a lawsuit asking for Qualcomm chips to be barred from the United States due to pending arbitration and another round at the District Court in The Hague on Nov 14._____________ ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/26/another-round-of-qualcomm-vs-nokia-patent-battle-starts-in-britain/ )"

Submission + - Hydrogen power... in a car? Now? (honda.com) 1

Submitted by

isaachulvey

on Monday November 26, 2007 @11:31AM

isaachulvey writes: "On and on we talk about how hydrogen power is simply a dream of the future... Honda on the other hand thinks differently. They have officially released their FCX Clarity, a fully functional hydrogen powered car. Sadly, for those of us on the East Coast, it may be a while until we can get our hands on one. "Hydrogen fuel stations are critical to the deployment of a fuel cell car and, as it stands now, stations accessible to the public are still quite limited." Meaning, the FCX Clarity is only going to be available to Southern California drivers until more development goes in to hydrogen fuel stations."

Submission + - Allatori Java Obfuscator 1.8 (allatori.com)

Submitted by

Vlad Ershov

on Monday November 26, 2007 @11:24AM

Vlad Ershov writes: "Allatori Java Obfuscator belongs to the second generation obfuscators' family and has all spectrum of opportunities on protection of your intellectual property. In the Allatori arsenal there are the following protection methods: name obfuscation, flow obfuscation, debug info obfuscation, string encryption, watermarking. The obfuscator is free for educational and non-commercial projects.

The 1.8 version has new fields and methods renaming scheme that makes the resulting jars even smaller, improved control flow obfuscation and enhanced J2ME support.

Allatori Java Obfuscator web site and demo version download"

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