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A budget-priced Braille e-reader seems like an obvious, uncontroversial idea that should be relatively easy to pull off.
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Owen Radtke, like many of his peers in the San Francisco Bay Area, is in hot demand as a product-design consultant for technology startups.
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Nsa's Encrypted Tweet: We're Hiring Code Breakers
What better way to recruit potential code breakers than to advertise in cipher?
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The Wizard of Minecraft
It's a wet monday morning in Stockholm, and the door to Markus Persson's office is closed.
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Tool ncovers Bot-Controlled Twitter Accounts
Aiming to counter misinformation campaigns, researchers at Indiana University have developed a tool that helps determine whether a Twitter account is operated...
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Want to Learn Quicker? se Your Body
Ever got to grips with a problem? Picked up a new skill? Grasped a difficult concept? The language of learning is full of references to parts of the body outside...
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An Inside Look at the Insanely Complex Formula 1 Steering Wheel
The modern Formula 1 car is among the most amazing machines ever made. And when you're going wheel-to-wheel with someone like four-time world champ Sebastian Vettel...
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Staying on Task Is Difficult in the Automated Cockpit
A new study indicates that pilots may have a hard time concentrating on the automated systems that now carry out many of the tasks once completed by humans.
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
In the shadow of Internet monoliths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, it's easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building...
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The Plug-and-Play Luxury Home
When it is completed in early 2018, Muse, a 49-story luxury-condo development in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., will have an automated parking system with push-button...
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Chemist Turns Software Developer After Son's Cancer Diagnosis
A scientist's ambitious plan to create an early detection system for eye cancer using people's home cameras is coming along.
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The Secret Messages Inside Chinese rls
An American friend living in Beijing once said she refused to communicate with anyone whose email address consisted of a string of numbers, such as 62718298454@163...
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Self-Assembly Required: One Scientist's Bid to Build Cancer-Killing Nanorobots
The term "cancer killing nanorobot" could conjure up all sorts of images, the best involving teeny tiny laser eyebeams.
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Basic Science Finds Corporate Refuge
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.
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To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes By Hand
Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home.
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Future Macbook Keyboards May Come Loaded with In-Key Displays, Capacitive Touch
Showing the company is still making advances in more traditional tech, an Apple patent filing for "Multi-functional keyboard assemblies" describes a keyboard consisting...
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What's The Nsa Doing Now? Training More Cyber Warriors
The U.S. needs more cyber warriors, and it needs them fast, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts
Chad Bouton snapped awake at 5 a.m.
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sing ltrasound to Feel Virtual Objects
A startup called Ultrahaptics aims to make gesture control and virtual reality more engaging by using ultrasound waves to let you feel like you’re touching virtual...
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