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The world of image formats still goes through. Photographers married forever with the RAW, some designers love their PNGs, while other designers seriously do not live without their TIFFs, mothers need BMPs to email us with their PowerPoints and normal users use and abuse of JPEG. You can improve, of course, but to convince everyone to abandon older [...]

Hosted within Blogger, the Magnifier site-service project has been launched and offers the possibility to add its musics to your playlist on Google Music Beta. After you add music, the bands will get directioned at the GMB and can be heard immediately. The first impression is that the Magnifier is just a blog, and it is. Except that instantly associate [...]

IBM has developed the largest hard disk system in the world, capable of storing up to 120 petabytes (equivalent to 120 million gigabytes) of data. The RAID system was manufactured at the request of a client company, that want to use it with software simulation of natural phenomena. The device will be able to store up to 24 billion songs in MP3 format, [...]

Publishers can now prepare to capitalize fortunes with sales of eBooks with tracks and sound effects. According to English information newspaper The Telegraph, using a technology that can calculate the speed with which the reader reads the text, eBooks will play a soundtrack to that specific section of the narrative and add the corresponding sounds [...]

Google has begun preliminary negotiations to purchase the video streaming site Hulu, says the LA Times. Sources told the publication that Hulu has met with Google, as well as Microsoft and Yahoo, in order to get one interested in business. As shown in the LA Times story, the fact Hulu is the rights holder for the display of a season of popular series [...]

    In these days of mobility, a strong trend is the increasing access to content via apps instead of surfing the web. This change may even receive a “force” of some vehicles, such as the New York Port, which blocked access to the site when it is detected using Safari iOS. The idea is to “encourage” the adoption [...]

Volkswagen launched a new type of autopilot system that is not intended to replace the driver, but help him or her to correct mistakes and should have a safer road. The system allows drivers to control the car Nevertheless, Keep right up to 130 km / h. The system of the German automaker, called Temporary Autopilot (TAP) has sensors such as radar, [...]

Twitter started placing advertisements on the timeline, according to the Financial Times. The addition of the “paid tweets” – a euphemism for advertising – the service can frustrate many users, while also attracts companies that want to reach some of the roughly 300 million users. Twitter executives have met with strategists [...]

HDR wil conquer the world. The acronym means wide dynamic range and managed to photograph this end mixing at least three photos that have been made with different diaphragm openings. The idea is good because it allows you to keep information both in the regions in shadow and highlight. The problem is that many people have exaggerated a little [...]

  This news is something that we confess we had expected to hear a certain time and it is finally there: virtual credit card. Mastercard has previously raised intentions to partner with Google Wallet, not long after shelve ambitious plans for a system of payments by the partnership did not work with AT & T, T-Mobile and Verizon (The Isis [...]