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Why Intel Wants to Get Into Energy
Intel showed off an experimental device last week in China that could someday substantially cut the costs of wiring homes and offices for energy efficiency, one...
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Robots Look to the Cloud for Enlightenment
With the phrase "web 2.0" falling out of vogue, the most exciting new uses of the internet are now all about the cloud, a term for servers invisibly doing smart...
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Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley
Although technology hubs such as Silicon Valley boast that they are open to good ideas irrespective of the age, educational level, or station in life of the inventor...
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Researcher Aims to Secure RFID Tags
Technology for providing alerts when information on RFID tags is being accessed and controlling access to private information was on display during the recent CHI...
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Scientists Work to Keep Hackers Out of Implanted Medical Devices
Researchers are developing ways to prevent hackers from accessing and remotely controlling medical devices that emit wireless signals.
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Hp Researcher: Power Efficiency Has a Long Way to Go
The information technology and consumer electronics industries could make quantum leaps in terms of improving the power efficiency of electronic systems and devices...
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Hand-Held Projector Images Respond to the Real World
A prototype of a handheld projector created virtual characters that interacted with the real world at the recent Virtual Reality 2010 meeting in Waltham, MA.
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Gridjam: Experimental Music Project
High performance collaborative network computing will allow musicians in distant locations to deliver successful performances, according to Jack Ox, co-creator...
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Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell
For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or...
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Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing
This year, Netflix made what looked like a peculiar choice: the DVD-by-mail company decided that over the next two years, it would move most of its Web technology...
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The Next Big Thing for Intel: Sandy Bridge
Sandy Bridge is arguably Intel's most important future technology. So, what is it exactly? Intel has been careful to reveal only snippets about the technology over...
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Exposing Hackers as an International Deterrent
An international group of computer scientists, law professors, military leaders, and others recently met at Russia's Moscow State University for a conference on...
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Multitoe Project Offers New Touch Interface
Multitoe, a system that turns a floor into a touchscreen, was on display at the recent CHI 2010 conference in Atlanta.
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At Internet Conference, Signs of Agreement Between U.s. and Russia
Security specialists from eight countries met at a Russian-sponsored conference on Internet security to discuss their differences on how governments view cyberspace...
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Twitter Conference Highlights Booming Growth
Type "I don't get..." into Google and among the first suggestions the search engine makes to complete the sentence is, "I don't get Twitter," right above "I don't...
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How the Internet Will Change the World
Pew Internet & American Life Project director Lee Rainie discusses the results of a survey of experts on how technology will develop and impact society in the year...
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Connect 2 Congress Lets You Track Your Senator, One Vote at a Time
Georgia Institute of Technology student Peter Kinnaird has developed Connect 2 Congress, software that tracked how senators voted in the 110th U.S. Congress.
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Three Finalists in Prize For Technology Breakthroughs
The Technology Academy of Finland has announced the finalists for the international Millennium Technology Prize.
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Google Backs Yahoo in Privacy Fight with Doj
Google and an alliance of privacy groups have come to Yahoo's aid by helping the Web portal fend off a broad request from the U.S. Department of Justice for e-mail...
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