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Nctu Creates Brain-Computer Interface
The National Chaio Tung University in Taiwan last week unveiled a portable, multi-channel brain-computer interface named "MINDO," an intermix of computer-generated...
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For Deaf, Wireless Devices a New Portal to World
Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people.
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Foursquare: Where Are Location Sites Taking Us?
Where others see a city map, Ryan Long sees a game board. The game is Foursquare, but not the way you played it in grade school. On Foursquare.com every bar,...
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'Cookies' Cause Bitter Backlash
Spate of lawsuits shows user discomfort with latest innovations in online-tracking technology.
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Cloud Computing Hits Snag in Europe
Cloud-based breakthroughs face a formidable obstacle in Europe: strict privacy laws that place rigid limits on the movement of information beyond the borders...
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Intel Touts
Intel has joined the parade of companies trying to beam video to your TV. The chipmaker is betting on “WiDi,” its technology for streaming media wirelessly from...
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Why Google Went Instant
The service, an engineering marvel, could boost Google's bottom line.
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The Face of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of...
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Google
Lately, stories about Google often seem to be stories about conflict—Google knocking heads with China or the Justice Department or Facebook. For Eric E. Schmidt...
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.s. Cybersecurity Plans Lagging, Critics Say
More than a year after President Obama made a White House speech proclaiming that the protection of computer networks was a national priority, the federal government...
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Intel Will Teach Gadgets to Learn About You
Rather than teach your gadgets what to do, Intel researchers say that in the not-too-distant future they will learn about you on their own. That means where you...
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Officials In The Dark About Voting Machine Glitches
Problems with voting machines are still popping up 10 years after the controversial presidential vote in Florida.
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New Gadgets to Solve Fat Finger Fumbles
Scientists such as Hasso Plattner Institute professor Patrick Baudisch are developing new gadgets that may eliminate small keyboards and other problems that make...
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Tim Berners-Lee Calls For Free Internet Worldwide
Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default."
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Intel Puts Game Physics in the Cloud
Simulating the physics of light makes for games that better mimic the real world.
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Pew Study: We've Got Phone Apps, But Not All of S Are sing Them
Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States have "apps," or software programs on their cell phones now, but only 24 percent of them are actually using...
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Darpa Wants You To Build An Anti-Secrecy App
Usually the Pentagon expends time and technological effort to protect information. But now the far-out researchers at Darpa are looking for a few good futurists...
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The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution
HTML5 is changing the look of Web video, but can it edge out Flash?
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3D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
Businesses in the South Park district of San Francisco generally sell either Web technology or sandwiches and burritos. Bespoke Innovations plans to sell designer...
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