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Mind-Controlled Robot Arms Show Promise
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...
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Why Flipping Through Paper-Like Pages Endures in the Digital World
When Instapaper developer Marco Arment updated his popular offline reading app for the iPad, something was different. Instapaper's normal pagination action—rendering...
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Smart Phones Are Changing Real World Privacy Settings
Tel Aviv University researchers have found that smartphones are challenging traditional concepts of privacy, especially in the public arena.
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Scientists Read a Galaxy's Entrails
Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another...
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Facebook's Prospects May Rest on Trove of Data
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what?
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Free, Browser-Based 'wolfenstein 3d' Released By Bethesda
Bethesda Softworks has released a free, browser-based version of the iconic first-person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D.
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Implanted User Interfaces: I've Got You Under My Skin
The human body is regularly augmented with technology, from pacemakers and hearing aids to magnets people embed under their skin to give them a new sense. However...
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Court pholds Google-Nsa Relationship Secrecy
A federal appeals court last Friday upheld the National Security Agency's decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship...
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Deaf IBM Researcher Scoffs at Not Talking on the Phone
IBM researcher Dimitri Kanevsky was recently honored at the White House to celebrate his achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math...
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Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...
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Coolest Jobs in Tech: From the Pits of Le Mans to the Dugouts of Fenway Park
When race cars whiz around a track at 200 miles per hour, driving ability isn't the only factor that determines who wins the race.
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Best Websites Balance Self-Expression and Functionality
Penn State University researchers have found that providing users with a certain amount of freedom to express themselves could help designers develop more interactive...
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Smart Shoes Step p the Wearable-Computing Pace
Researchers at the universities of Munich and Toronto have developed ShoeSense, a type of wearable computing system for smartphones.
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A Computer Interface that Takes a Load Off Your Mind
Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party's state of mind and make for a productive...
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Next Xbox Could Have a Biometric Controller
The controller for the next Xbox might be able to take biometric readings of your hand, according to a recent Microsoft patent.
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A Revamping of Bing in the Battle For Search Engine Supremacy
When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small...
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Miragetable: Microsoft Presents Augmented Reality Device
Microsoft is developing an augmented reality system that allows users in different locations to work together on a tabletop and share and handle objects. The MirageTable...
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Daniela Rus's Robotic Sand
History holds lessons, even for those designing futuristic robots.
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