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Cogent to Replace Automated Finger Imaging System for New York State OTDA

Cogent Systems (Nasdaq:COGT) today announced that it has been awarded a contract to replace the Automated Finger Imaging System (AFIS) for the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA).

5 Jan 2010

Smart GeoMetrics Uses its 3D Laser Technology to Scan USS Missouri Ship in Dry Dock

Smart GeoMetrics, a division of Smart MultiMedia, Inc. is on its second day of digital documentation of one of the world’s largest battleships in Hawaii. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to scan the ship’s entire hull while it is in dry dock in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.

5 Jan 2010

Scientists Used Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to Study Gaseous Intergalactic Streamer

A giant stream of gas flowing from neighbor galaxies around our own Milky Way is much longer and older than previously thought, astronomers have discovered. The new revelations provide a fresh insight on what started the gaseous intergalactic streamer.

5 Jan 2010

NOAO Blanco Telescope Helps Astronomers Spot Most Powerful Star Explosion

University of Notre Dame astronomer Peter Garnavich and a team of collaborators have discovered a distant star that exploded when its center became so hot that matter and anti-matter particle pairs were created. The star, dubbed Y-155, began its life around 200 times the mass of our Sun but probably became "pair-unstable" and triggered a runaway thermonuclear reaction that made it visible nearly halfway across the universe.

5 Jan 2010

Images of Solar Corona Taken During Eclipse Reveal New Findings

Solar physicists attempting to unlock the mysteries of the solar corona have found another piece of the puzzle by observing the sun's outer atmosphere during eclipses

5 Jan 2010

Kepler Telescope Helps Discover New Exoplanets

Orbiting Telescope Designed to Find Earth-Like Planets

5 Jan 2010

Altair ProductDesign Performed Computer Simulations for Xerox ColorQube 9200 Series

Before Xerox Corporation launched the ColorQube(TM) 9200 Series, the high print quality of the device was proven through detailed computer simulations performed by Altair ProductDesign, Inc., a global product development consultancy and wholly owned subsidiary of Altair Engineering, Inc.

5 Jan 2010

OmniVision Releases New Image Sensor That Offers High-Resolution Photography

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today launched a 14.6-megapixel image sensor capable of delivering high-resolution still photography and full 1080p high-definition (HD) video at 60 frames per second (fps). The new OV14810 for digital still/video cameras (DSC/DVC) and OV14825 for mobile applications are among the very first sensors to achieve the highest quality in both video and photography for mainstream consumer electronics.

5 Jan 2010

DiCon Microscope LED Illuminator Products to be Distributed by Edmund Optics

DiCon LED is excited to announce their new sales distributorship with Edmund Optics, the premier provider of optical and imaging components, as DiCon’s worldwide distributor Microscope LED Illuminator product line.

4 Jan 2010

Images from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Suggest Evidence of Lakes in Mars

Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, according to research published today in the journal Geology.

4 Jan 2010