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It's Time to Start 3d Scanning the World
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...
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Will Tablets Replace Laptops?
Tablets like the iPad 2 are hot … and apparently so hot that 46% of respondents believe they will eventually eliminate the need for laptop computers, according...
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A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams
The vast data centers that process information for the Facebooks and Amazons of the Web work at a brisk clip. But even so, they can't always keep up.
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Making It in America
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.
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Humans And Machines: Beyond Touch
Computer chips and technology are invading all sorts of previously dumb devices. Phones are now smart. Cars are becoming connected computers on wheels. Call it...
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Steve Ballmer Reboots
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...
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Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'warehouse' Computing
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.
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New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms
Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information...
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Marines Want iPads to Control Robo-Copter Brains
It's been less than a month since the Marines flew their first robotic supply helicopter on its debut combat mission in Afghanistan.
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What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell S About the Future of Education
Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)...
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How Research Goes Viral
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers...
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Critics See 'disaster' in Expansion of Domain Names
Vast new tracts of the Internet are up for sale as of Thursday.
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Google Adds Posts From Its Social Network to Search Results
Google's popularity was built on its ability to help people find just the right Web pages. Then came the social Web, led by Facebook, where people go to see vast...
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Almost 1 In 3 U.s. Warplanes Is a Robot
Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes?
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Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way probably has at least one companion planet, adding credence to the notion that...
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Intel Unveils New Chips For Smartphones and Tablets
Intel's chips have dominated the PC era, but when it comes to post-PC devices, such as smartphones and tablets, the company is less than an also-ran.
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Time Cloaking: How Scientists Opened a Hidden Gap in Time
Scientists say they have achieved "temporal cloaking"—manipulating light in a way that makes it appear as if 50 trillionths of a second never happened.
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Russian Space Chief Claims Space Failures May Be Sabotage
Some recent failures of Russian satellites may have been the result of sabotage by foreign forces, Russia's space chief said in comments apparently aimed at the...
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Facial Recognition: Beating Surveillance Cameras
Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine.
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