Earthquake adds special effects to 3-D movie
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The 5.6 quake that hit the Bay Area on Tuesday struck as News.com's Ina Fried was watching the 3-D version of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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The trio of frames offers 800 by 480 pixel resolution and supports a variety of slide show techniques.
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The musical documentary âU2 3D,â which stitches together three performances by this Irish rock band, is  the first Imax movie that deserves to be called a work of art.
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Science & environment: Earthquake-prediction techniques could help to forecast epileptic seizures, according to research
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Bundle of professional video editing applications includes new Motion special-effects software.
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(InfoWorld) - Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the underseaÂ earthquakes that cause tsunamis. The Tsunami Harddisk Detector is the brainchild of Michael Stadler, who demonstrated the prototype system earlier this week at the Ars Electronica exhibition in Linz, Austria. As part of their operation, hard disks measure vibrations in order to keep the read-write head of the disk on track. These measurements can be read from some hard disks. The Tsunami Harddisk Detector captures this vibration data and shares it with computers in other locations connected via a peer-to-peer network to determine whether an earth tremor is occurring. In the p-to-p network, several participating computers act as supernodes, which analyze the data received from the other "sensing" nodes. The supernodes are able to ignore vibrations generated by a computer being kicked or shaken, by recording how many computers report the same vibrations simultaneously. If an earthquake that could lead to a tsunami is detected, the supernodes inform the other nodes. Computers running the client software and connected to the p-to-p network can then warn of such events. The software is able to provide such warnings because the seismic waves produced by earthquakes travel at about 5,000 kilometers per hour, while tsunamis move much slower at 500 to 1,000 kilometers per hour, Stadler explains on hisÂ Web site. The speed difference leaves time to evaluate tremors and, if necessary, warn of a tsunami. On his Web site, however, Stadler points out that his system is still in the experimental stage with some inherent problems and can't be fully relied on to provide a "serious prediction" of a tsunami risk in its present configuration.
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The entertainment industry Tuesday ramped up its response to the devastation in Southeast Asia caused by last month's earthquake and tsunami.
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It&#39;s unlikely that anyone would have made a movie such as Ladder 49 before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Rather than piling on special effects, this down-to-earth
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The first two Toy Story films are to be re-made in digital 3D ahead of the release of Toy Story 3 in 2010.
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The production designer Jack Fisk uses architecture and anthropology to assemble a movie set.
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We have seen it all in the movies. Asteroids coming towards the earth promising devastation of the kind we have experienced before.
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These tremors may signal an increased likelihood of earthquakes on the San Andreas fault. Scientists have long expected California&#39;s next big earthquakeâof magnitude 8 or higherâto occur on the San Andreas fault.
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The devastating earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on 26 December was so powerful that it has accelerated the Earth&#39;s rotation, geophysicists have declared.
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There have been a couple of movies recently depicting the impending collision of an asteroid with Earth. It might not be sci-fi anymore.
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Sandia's motion detector could help predict if earthquakes are coming or if airplane parts are about to rip loose.
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TOKYO : A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted western and central Japan, following two major tremors at the weekend, the meteorological agency said.
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Seismologists are studying mysterious tremors deep under the San Andreas Fault that may signal future earthquakes. The continuous tremors are &quot;a kind of chatter&quot; emanating from a depth far below the surface