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Leap Motion, Others Look Beyond the Mouse and Keyboard
There was a time when the mouse and keyboard were the two primary ways to interact with a computer. Then came touch screens, and the idea of "natural input" became...
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Mobile Apps Drive Rapid Change in Searches
When the Federal Trade Commission decided last week to close its antitrust investigation of Google without charges, one important factor, though hardly mentioned...
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A Peek Inside China's Internet Giants and Their Massive Scale
Here's the thing about China: It's very, very big.
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At Ces, Chinese Electronics Giants Compete For American Eyes
You’ve heard the complaints. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is too unwieldy and too outdated for tech titans such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft...
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How Fast Does 'Virtual Reality' Have to Be to Look Like 'Actual Reality'?
For decades now, virtual reality has been a pipe dream concept, well ahead of the technology needed to realize it.
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Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).
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U.s. Library of Congress Saving 500 Million Tweets Per Day in Archives
The U.S. Library of Congress expects to finish the initial stage of building a Twitter archive by the end of January. The Library is storing 500 million tweets...
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Vint Cerf: Internet Competition Has 'evaporated' Since Dial-p
Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, said he is troubled by the prospect of companies like AT&T avoiding government regulation after the transition from traditional...
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Revolutionary Paper Tablet Computer Is Thin and Flexible as Sheets of Paper
Researchers at Queen's University, Intel Labs, and Plastic Logic have developed PaperTab, a tablet computer that looks and feels like a sheet of paper. PaperTab...
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Researchers se Data From Traffic App to Identify High Frequency Accident Locations
Geosocial networks such as the global positioning system traffic app Waze could aid the police in their effort to deploy resources to high-frequency accident locations...
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Iran Designing Software For Controlled Social Media Access
Iran is designing intelligent software that would give its citizens limited access to social networking Web sites, according to a local media report.
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North Korean Students Show Google Chief How They Search Web
Students at North Korea's premier university have showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: they Google it.
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All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player
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Silent Skype Calls Can Hide Secret Messages
Got a secret message to send? Say it with silence.
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'hashtag' Is the 2012 Word of the Year
In its 23rd annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted "hashtag" as the word of the year for 2012. Hashtag refers to the practice used on...
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Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux
In an interview, Google Glass project leader Babak Parviz discusses where the wearable device is heading in the near future.
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Military Must Prep Now For 'mutant' Future, Researchers Warn
The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher...
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Apps Crash the Enterprise
When Apple introduced the App Store in July 2008 it represented nothing less than a revolutionary way to distribute software. Now the concept is invading the enterprise...
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Google Cleared of Search Results Bias After 2-Year U.s. Investigation
Google has been forced by regulators in the U.S. to agree to legally binding changes to the way it presents some search results and runs its search advertising...
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