First they gave us a high-res tour of Mars — now Microsoft has made the largest and clearest night-sky map ever. It’s a terapixel image: 1,000,000,000,000 pixels. The software giant’s Terapixel ...

Tech and research giant Microsoft says it has produced the largest and clearest image of the night sky ever -- and it's a terapixel in size. How big is a terapixel, you ask? 1,000,000,000,000 pixels, ...

How can you achieve the impossible? Easy -- as long as you have the right people and the right tools. The Terapixel project from Microsoft Research Redmond is proof positive. The effort—to create the ...

A post on our sister site Gadget Lab caught my eye this morning — Resist the Megapixel Myth! While I whole heartedly agree with that advice, it's hard to downplay the megapixel myth when the first one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 3 years old. The Mars ...

This story has been updated with additional information and corrections provided by Google after the interview. In May, Google unveiled Earth Engine, a set of technologies and services that combine ...

Giant images formed from billions of pixels are popping up everywhere from telepathology to satellite and space imaging. Following a story on the BBC News website about Dutch researchers creating the ...

In a project that aims to pull a new generation of students toward science and technology, Microsoft and NASA have teamed up to create what they say is the largest seamless, spherical map ever made of ...

Most of the smartphone cameras are capable of capturing an 8 MP or a 12 MP image, whereas some of the recently launched smartphones like the Honor View20 is capable of capturing a 48 MP image. A 12 MP ...

Panorama tools allow photographers to combine hundreds of photos together to create gigapixel landscapes — but what about macro? A group of photographers at the SIGGraph Conference, led by Gene Cooper ...

Once again it’s time for you, the sharp-eyed readers of Hack a Day, to decide whether the following video demonstrates technology at its finest, or if it is complete hogwash. This edition of Real or ...