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Spy Planes Played Indispensable Role in Mission
The raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan represents probably the biggest success so far of a revolution in military technology: the ability to relay...
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For Buyers of Web Start-ps, Quest to Corral Young Talent
Sam Lessin sold his Web start-up to Facebook for millions last year, and Facebook promptly shut it down. All Facebook wanted was Mr. Lessin.
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Irobot Contemplates the Next Big Leap For Robotics, Google's Along For the Ride
When I saw iRobot's Ava at CES this January, I was pretty insanely excited. Just a month or so prior I had been prodding iRobot CEO Colin Angle about building...
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Netflix Biggest Driver of U.s. Internet Traffic, Puts Spotlight on Broadband Pricing
Netflix streaming videos drove nearly 30% of all North American broadband Internet traffic during peak hours, with consumers continuing their voracious appetite...
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Why You Can't Really Anonymize Your Data
One of the joys of the last few years has been the flood of real-world data sets being released by all sorts of organizations. These usually involve some record...
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Andy Rubin: Why Android Is Only Quasi-Open
Android is open-source software, but it doesn't come with much of an open-source community, and the Google leader of the project explained why.
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System Enables Hands-Free Control of Electric Wheelchairs
People suffering from severe disabilities would be able to use a new recognition system to control an electric-powered wheelchair developed by a team at Essex University...
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Foldable Display Shows No Crease After 100,000 Folding Cycles
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology researchers have developed a prototype seamless display that folds in half without a noticeable crease in the middle.
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A Business Analytics Engine that Began with the Military
Big technology companies like Netflix and Facebook make clever use of the digital traces we leave online: their algorithms can make connections between data and...
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How Bin Laden Emailed Without Being Detected By U.s.
Using intermediaries and inexpensive computer disks, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for U.S. eavesdroppers...
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How to Control Complex Networks
At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system...
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The Future Revealed in the Past
Over the past 30 years, designer, writer, researcher Bill Buxton has been collecting input and interactive devices whose design struck him as interesting, useful...
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The Man Who Invented the Microprocessor
Ted Hoff saved his own life, sort of. Deep inside this 73-year-old lies a microprocessor—a tiny computer that controls his pacemaker and, in turn, his heart.
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A Stitch in Time... at the Speed of Smartphones
Your grandmother's hobby is going high-tech. Amid sewing's pop-culture revival, makers of sewing machines are cutting no corners in their appeal to the next generation...
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Why Google Does Not Own Skype
So Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest deal ever. It’s too soon to make a pronouncement on whether the purchase is an idiot move, a brilliant...
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Google's Annual Developers Conference Gets nderway
Whether or not Google makes any blockbuster announcements at its annual developers conference that starts Tuesday—a news report on Monday said it may unveil its...
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Five Gadgets that Will Be Dead in Five Years
If there's one thing that's predictable in the technology world, it's that things change. Products that were commonplace 10 years ago (PDAs, CRT televisions,...
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Chinese Entrepreneurs See Apple's App Store as Entryway to Global Market
Lu Miao speaks very little English. He's never traveled outside of Asia. He's not a software engineer. But in a few short months, he became the founder of a successful...
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The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes
All right, class, here’s your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat.
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