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Real 'Touch' Screens and Tasteful Computers: IBM Predicts the Future
What if a computer could let us "feel" the texture of a fabric before we buy clothes online? Or gives us a whiff—or even a taste—of a meal we're thinking of preparing...
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How Google Is Taking the Knowledge Graph Global
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...
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Looking at the Battle of Gettysburg Through Robert E. Lee's Eyes
Anne Kelly Knowles loves places where history happened.
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North Korea: On the Net in World's Most Secretive Nation
There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean Website: a piece of programming that must be included in each page's code.
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Got Food Allergies? Now You Can Test Your Meal on the Spot Using a Cell Phone
UCLA researchers have developed iTube, a lightweight device that attaches to a cell phone to detect allergens in food samples. iTube uses the cell phone's built...
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Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm Gets Closer Than Ever to Human Limb
Researchers in the United States have developed a robotic arm controlled directly by thought with a level of agility closer than ever to a normal human limb.
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Google Gets a Second Brain, Changing Everything About Search
In the 1983 sci-fi/comedy flick The Man with Two Brains, Steve Martin played Michael Hfuhruhurr, a neurosurgeon who marries one of his patients but then falls in...
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A Brooklyn Protester Pleads Guilty After His Twitter Posts Sink His Case
In the end, the tweets told the tale.
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This Real-Life Pixar Lamp Cutely Refuses to Let You Turn It Off
Design-class projects have come a long way. That's the only conclusion I can draw from this brilliant video of a robotic desk lamp that squeaks, swivels, and mugs...
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Has Apple Lost its Mojo?
Cracks have begun to appear on Apple's road to invincibility.
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Microsoft Retools in Fight Against China Pirates
For pirates in China, where illegal software sales greatly outmatch legal ones, a new version of Windows typically means a new treasure ship to plunder.
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China Looks to Lead the Internet of Things
When architect James Law looks in the mirror each morning his reflection is not all that greets him—he can also see the weather report, email messages, and his...
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25-Gpu Cluster Cracks Every Standard Windows Password in <6 Hours
A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster that can cycle through as many as 350 billion guesses per second.
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High-Tech Glasses Wow With New Advances
Researchers are making strides in developing wearable computer technology, particularly high-tech glasses that double as computer displays.
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Learning to Accept, and Master, a $110,000 Mechanical Arm
After the explosion, Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos awoke to see the October sun glinting through the water, an image so lovely he thought he was dreaming.
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China Developing GPS-on-a-Shoestring Plan
When it comes to satellite navigation systems, everybody's gotta have one.
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An Accelerometer So Good That Only Quantum Mechanics Limits It
We take it for granted now, but the fact that you can flip your phone from portrait to landscape mode depends on accelerometers. As everyone knows, though, the...
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They Know What You're Shopping For
Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market for a BMW.
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