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When Alexander Graham Bell was working on improving sound quality in his Volta Laboratory 125 years ago, he and his team made a number of recordings to help guard against his ideas being stolen by rivals.
Now researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to lift the voices from those recordings using 3D optical scanning technology and digitising them, so they can be shared. The technology takes high resolution images of the records, but never physically touches them, eliminating any possibility of damaging them in the process.
http://bio16p.lbl.gov
DOWNLOAD:Dublin Bus for Android
iOS users have had the Dublin Bus app for a while now, but finally a version is available for Android. It has everything you get in the iPhone version – real-time monitoring of bus routes, timetables, a route planner. You can search by stop address, number or route, and figure out when the next bus is due to arrive. It could do with a little more work – improved maps and maybe some offline timetables for a start – but its a handy addition to your app line-up.
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FOLLOW:The Rupert Murdoch saga on Twitter
The billionaire appeared on Twitter – complete with a verified check mark – at the end of last month.
Since then, he has been pondering matters such as Steve Jobss biography (unfair, apparently) and praising Fox for making great family movies.
Of course, a verified account doesnt appear to be all that hard to get; a profile purporting to be Murdochs wife Wendi Deng was verified by Twitter but later branded a fake.
@rupertmurdoch
