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Touchy-Feely Bionic Hand Closer to Reality
A bionic hand under development features an interface that links the hand to a person's nervous system.
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Writing Without Keyboard: Handwriting Recognition on the Wrist
Researchers have developed an "air-writing" system that uses sensors attached to a glove to recognize hand movements as a user writes letters in the air.
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A Sense of the Future
Smartphones not only have a brain but, increasingly, the ability to sense their environment.
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Calling Out the Robocaller
Last month, the Haggler was sitting at home when the phone rang.
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Al-Qaida Tipsheet on Avoiding Drones Found in Mali
One of the last things the bearded fighters did before leaving this city was to drive to the market where traders lay their carpets out in the sand.
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Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less
No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it’s estimated that there are more than 14 billion.
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Nielsen Adjusts Its Ratings to Add Web-Linked Tvs
For media executives, there may be nothing worse than a viewer or listener who is not counted.
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MIT Wants Tomorrow’s Soldiers to Talk Through Their Shirts
The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is developing microscopic fibers that can be woven into soldiers' uniforms to enable them to communicate with other soldiers...
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Google Searches For Style
Google is in discussions with online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker to create a more stylish version of its Google Glass frames.
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How Secure Is the Papal Election?
As the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope, security people like me wonder about the process. How does it work, and just how hard would it be to hack...
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How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain
When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the Web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands...
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U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms
The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...
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Braess' Paradox Infects Social Networks Too, Say Computer Scientists
The paradox that adding extra roads to a network can lead to greater congestion, may be seen in social networks, too.
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Top .s. Stealth Jet Has to Talk to Allied Planes Over nsecured Radio
For the first time, America's top-of-the-line F-22 fighters and Britain's own cutting-edge Typhoon jets have come together for intensive, long-term training in...
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Exposé of Chinese Data Thieves Reveals Sloppy Tactics
A beige office block in Shanghai's suburbs belonging to the Chinese army became world famous on Tuesday after Mandiant, a Washington-based computer security company...
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Using 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars?
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Can You Feel Me Now? The Sensational Rise of Haptic Interfaces
Your first experience with haptics was probably your phone vibrating in your pocket.
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The Drones Come Home
At the edge of a stubbly, dried-out alfalfa field outside Grand Junction, Colorado, Deputy Sheriff Derek Johnson, a stocky young man with a buzz cut, squints at...
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Tongue-Tingling Interface Lets You Taste Data
A new device called Tongueduino can turn the tongue into a 'display' for output from environmental sensors.
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