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Silicon Valley's Top Threat Is China, Survey Finds
Many high-level technology executives are convinced that some other country, probably China, will supplant Silicon Valley as the global center for innovation within...
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Google's Futuristic Glasses Move Closer to Reality
Google recently announced that it is selling a prototype of its Internet-connected glasses, known as Google Glasses, to U.S. computer programmers for $1,500, hoping...
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Your E-Book Is Reading You
It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour.
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A Look Inside Leap Motion, the 3D Gesture Control That's Like Kinect on Steroids
Leap Motion's not the household name Kinect is, but it should be; the company's motion-tracking system is more powerful, more accurate, smaller, cheaper, and just...
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Official: West Concerned About Iranian, Islamic Video Games Production
Production of computer and video games with Iranian and Islamic contents has become a source of concern for the western states, a senior Iranian cultural official...
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It's Not an Entertainment Gadget, It's Google's Bid to Control the Future
Joe Britt hands me his latest creation, a black ball with glittering LED lights around the middle, and implores me to examine it.
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Blade Runner: Which Predictions Have Come True?
Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner—the tale of a hunt for four dangerous "replicant" humans—is a classic...
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The Man Who Keeps Facebook Humming
Jay Parikh is happy to never get a call from Mark Zuckerberg. Why? It means he's doing his job well. As the vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook...
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Iran Asks For Critiquing Western Computer Games
Iran's culture minister on Saturday called for a precise analysis and critique of western computer games to reveal the underlying goals pursued by developing such...
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Statistics nmask Phony Online Reviews
Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...
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Microsoft's Research Boss Celebrates Legacy of Alan Turing
What does Alan Turing mean to Microsoft and the rest of the modern tech world? Rick Rashid can tell you.
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Research Reveals Why Spammers Claim They're Nigerian
Most of us know the signs: stilted English, "Dear Sir/Madam," a particular fondness for exclamation points.
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Degrees of Separation
Researchers now have the capability to look at the small-world problem from both the traditional algorithmic approach and the new topological approach.
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HTML5 Leads a Web Revolution
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities...
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Patently Inadequate
The biggest change to U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years brings many changes, but fails to solve the software industry's most vexing problems.
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Lost and Found
Researchers discover computer pioneer Konrad Zuse's long-forgotten Z9, the world's first program-controlled binary relay calculator using floating-point arithmetic...
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You For Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome
It knows who you are. It knows where you live. It knows what you do.
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Google Reports 'alarming' Rise in Government Censorship Requests
Western governments, including the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, according to a "transparency...
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