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The Underdog Operating Systems Set to Shake Up the Smartphone Scene
The next time you go shopping for a smartphone, you might see some unfamiliar software on the screens lining store shelves.
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Humans Generate Most of the World’s Data, but Machines Are Catching Up
IDC estimated in 2005 that all of the bytes in the digital universe amounted to 130 billion gigabytes. IDC's most recent estimate for 2012 put the total at 2.8...
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GM and Ford Open Up Their Vehicles to App Developers
Both Ford and General Motors announded at the 2013 International CES event that they want software developers to create apps for their cars, and that they will...
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Your Gadgets Are Slowly Breaking the Internet
Ever-mounting numbers of wireless devices are straining Internet capacity, and a number of U.S. labs aim to address this problem, with the overarching challenge...
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How Delays Propagate Across the U.s. Airport Network
The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems has simulated how flight delays spread across the U.S. airport network like wildfires.
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It's All About the Genes and the Brain Machines
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.
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2013: The Year of the Internet of Things
Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization have shown how enabling technologies have rapidly matured and that the Internet...
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Cloud-Powered Gps Chip Slashes Smartphone Power Consumption
Microsoft researchers have developed CLEO, a cloud-based global positioning system that collects only a few milliseconds of the most important information from...
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Why China's Homemade Microchips Will Struggle to Displace Western Giants
If China's ultimate aim in the sphere of technology is to become completely self-sufficient, it is well on the way to achieving this ambitious goal.
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The Man Looking to Turn Samsung Into a Silicon Valley Trendsetter
Samsung Electronics is a company at the top of its game, having become the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer in the last year.
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The Woman Charged With Making Windows 8 Succeed
As the head of Windows product development at Microsoft, Julie Larson-Green is responsible for a piece of software used by some 1.3 billion people worldwide.
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China Developing GPS-on-a-Shoestring Plan
When it comes to satellite navigation systems, everybody's gotta have one.
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The Rise of Voice Biometrics For Mobile Phones
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs researchers have developed Vaulted Voice Verification, an approach to voice identification that can be used for voice...
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Leaping Into the Gesture-Control Era
A trip to any big electronics store this fall will tell you that computer makers from Samsung to Microsoft think laptop and desktop computers need touch screens...
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How Google Plans to Find the ngoogleable
Google's stated mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. To achieve this goal the company needs to utilize experience...
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What Sinofsky's Departure Suggests About the Current State, and Likely Future, of Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, abruptly left the company on November 12, shortly after introducing the latest version of the company's...
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The Computer That Stores and Processes Information at the Same Time
Computer scientists claim they can now store and process information simultaneously like a human brain by using nanoscale electronic components.
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Say Hello, or 你好, to China’s Siri
You might not have heard of iFlyTek. The company is hardly a household name in its domestic market of China, either.
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