ISRO has announced that it will roll out a software called “Bhuvan”. Bhuvan means Earth in sanskrit. It is said that it can provide more zoom than Google Earth and will have more recent maps than Google Earth. 

Bhuvan will allow users to zoom into areas as small as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre wide zoom limit on Google Earth. 

Bhuvan will use a network of satellites to create a high-resolution, bird’s-eye view of India – and later, possibly, the rest of the world – that will be accessible at no cost online and will compete with Google Earth. If a pilot version passes muster, Bhuvan will be fully operational by the spring. There are also plans to incorporate a global positioning system (GPS) into the online tool.

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Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it It works for videos as well - you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems.

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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Software) has released its 2.6 version which packs lots of new features.

Major Changes:

• Toolbox Menubar Removed
• Toolbox and Docks are Utility window
• Ability to Pan Beyond Image Border
• Improved Free Select Tool
• Brush Dynamics
• Minor Changes
• GEGL

Important progress towards high bit-depth and non-destructive editing in GIMP has been made. Most color operations in GIMP are now ported to the powerful graph based image processing framework GEGL, meaning that the interal processing is being done in 32bit floating point linear light RGBA. By default the legacy 8bit code paths are still used, but a curious user can turn on the use of GEGL for the color operations with Colors / Use GEGL.

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