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A Decade Later, Internet Appliance Dream Is Realized
Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the...
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Search Engines Learn How to Watch and Listen to Video
Missed the winning goal in that crucial football match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Just get on the net and you'll find hours of user-generated video content of...
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Researchers Using Robot to Determine How Human Strangers Develop Trust
Researchers from Northeastern, MIT and Cornell are using a robot to determine how human strangers develop trust.
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Cellphone Serves as Learning Platform For the Developing World
The cellphone, the fastest growing technology platform in the developing world, is delivering educational content to children in out-of-school settings in rural...
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To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery
The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida.
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Intel to Focus on How Computers Will Be sed in the Future
Intel has created Interaction and Experience Research, a new research lab led by Intel fellow Genevieve Bell that will enable scientists to explore how people will...
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The Achilles' Heel of Your Computer
Device drivers account for most crashes and even introduce security problems; a new testing tool could provide an early warning.
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Biometric Atm Gives Cash Via 'finger Vein' Scan
Poland's cooperative BPS bank says it's the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM--allowing customers to withdraw cash simply with the touch of a fingertip...
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'paperless Ticketing' Aims to Thwart Scalping at Concerts, Sports Events
Anyone who's ever chased a hot ticket for a concert or sports event knows the agony of the drill. Wait--online or in line--until the box office opens and then compete...
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Turning Remote Control Into Intimate Support
All the remote controls lying around our houses or fixed to our walls can be combined via new standardised middleware. Combined control enables new levels of home...
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The Tech Refresher Russia's Spies Needed
From James Bond to Johnny English, the movies give us the impression that spies are top of the tree when it comes to money-no-object espionage technology. But that...
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Patented Electronic Braking System Prevents Slips on Walkers
Rolling walkers—which help senior citizens maintain mobility and an active lifestyle—have just become safer and easier to use.
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Haptics Brings a Personal Touch to Technology
Of all the senses, touch as been somewhat neglected as a human means of interacting with machines. Labs around the world are now racing to close the gap while...
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Roll-p Computers and Their Kin
Digital reading technology has evolved from the original Amazon Kindle, which cost $400 and displayed four shades of gray, to devices that are much less expensive...
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Quantifying Human Behavior With Motion-Capture Technology
The University of Southern California is using improvisation and motion-capture technology to study expressive human behavior "to be able to build technologies...
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Virtual Reality You Can Reach Out and Touch
A team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual...
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IBM Names Firefox Its Default Browser
Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.
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Arrests of Alleged Spies Draws Attention to Steganography
A year ago in April, the government says, the accused operative known as Richard Murphy and his supposed wife, "Cynthia Murphy," booted up a computer in their comfy...
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Making Optical Switching More Practical For Telecom
Using all-optical controls could speed the transmission of telecommunications data, but optical switches that can work at high bandwidths need a lot of energy to...
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