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Five Fascinating Things Revealed By Twitter Data
When technology companies get floated on the stock market, it prompts all kinds of analytical soul searching.
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Touchscreens Get Curves Thanks to 3d Printed Optics
Papillion enables designers to create surfaces that can display wraparound interactive imagery.
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What Our 3d-Printed Future Looks Like
On-demand organs, Terminator-style arms, and aviation nostalgia—the best of 3D printing is on show in 3D: Printing the Future at London's Science Museum.
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Silk Road Bust Hints at Fbi's New Cybercrime Powers
The biggest drug marketplace on the Internet has been busted.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg sing Thought Alone
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...
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Hive-Mind Solves Tasks Using Google Glass Ant Game
Swarm! is a game that connects Google Glass wearers to a virtual ant colony and asks them to solve real-world problems.
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Maths Quiz Helps Paralyzed People Talk With Their Eyes
Giving fully conscious but paralysed people hard sums to do might seem like adding insult to injury. But because such brain teasers make the pupils of the eyes...
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Sensor Knows When You're Lying Through Your Teeth
The mouth could provide doctors with information on a variety of health issues with the aid of a sensor that sends data on mouth motion to a smartphone.
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Sensitive Piano Keys Let Pianists Create New Sounds
A new keyboard that uses touch-detecting sensors to bring the sound of string instruments to the piano.
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Mathematicians Think Like Machines For Perfect Proofs
A team of mathematicians has devised a new mathematical framework that forces people to think more like machines to check perfect proofs in collaboration with computers...
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Overprotection May Be Hampering Hunt For Mars Life
There are aliens on Mars—and they came from Earth.
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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Echolocating App Will Let You Map a Room with Sound
Bats, dolphins, and even some blind people use echoes to create a mental 3D map of their environment and where they are in it. A smartphone's chirp could soon let...
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Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Lets Paralyzed People Walk
MindWalker is the first exoskeleton that aims to allow paralyzed people to walk using only their minds.
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Tingly Projections Make Beamed Gadgets Come Alive
Researchers have developed a system that can beam the outline of computer keyboards or cellphones onto any surface, including the hand.
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Face-Reading System Watches You Watching Ads
Researchers have developed a system assess how muscles in the face move in response to watching a video.
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App Helps Blind Photographers Take the Perfect Snap
Researchers are developing a smartphone application that helps visually impaired users take pictures.
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