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Privacy Concerns Limit Online Ads, Study Says
Privacy advocates have had an impact on Madison Avenue after all, according to a new study.
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Why Twitter Is the Future of News
It's basically impossible for a journalist who relies on Twitter to find stories, stalk editors, rack up "whuffie" and beef with rap stars to be objective about...
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Shoppers Who Can
It’s called behavioral tracking: Cameras that can follow you from the minute you enter a store to the moment you hit the checkout counter, recording every T-shirt...
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New Way to Operate Mobile Electronics
A new technology based on the sensor found in many computer mice makes interacting with a MP3 player or mobile phone as easy as flicking, twisting or tapping the...
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Wheelchairs That Listen
MIT researchers are developing a voice-operated robotic wheelchair for people with neurological disorders.
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Data Mining Technology Applied to Hospitals' Infection Control Programs
Data mining technology is being used to spot trends in hospitals' data sets in order to combat healthcare associated infections.
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Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot....
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Jobs: Why Apple Banned Flash from the Iphone
In a rare open letter published Thursday, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has detailed the technological reasons why his company refuses to let Adobe Systems':...
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Cash, Check or Charge? How About Cellphone?
You win a bet, but the loser does not have enough cash on him to settle it. If he has a credit card, and most people usually do, there is finally a solution. AeBay...
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Pentagon: Boost Training With Computer-Troop Mind Meld
The Pentagon is looking to better train its troops--by scanning their minds as they play video games.
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Point and Click Your Phone to Get the Inside Dope on Just About Anything
Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design are developing augmented reality applications for use on mobile phones.
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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Powerpoint
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray...
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Putting the Touch Into Touchscreens
Your eyes tell you that your hand is locked in a vice-like mechanical device, but your fingertips tell you you're stroking fur. Welcome to the world of haptics,...
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Car Steered With Driver's Eyes
Researchers at the Freie Universitat Berlin's Artificial Intelligence Group have developed eyeDriver, software that enables users to steer a car with their eyes...
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Minput Makes Movement a New Way to Control Small Electronics
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have developed Minput, a proof-of-concept miniature input device that provides...
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Spammers Pay Others to Answer Security Tests
Faced with stricter Internet security measures, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America’s playbook: they are outsourcing. The going rate...
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Touch, Gesture, Speak, Scan: A 'nui' For Enterprise It
Microsoft's Natal natural user interface (NUI) features heat-sensing displays and an infrared camera and is designed to work as a game controller for the Xbox.
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Facebook v Google for Web Control
Mark Zuckerberg will soon hit the ripe old age of 26. And despite his youth, he clearly possesses no fear as he sets his company's sights on trying to wrest control...
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A New European Project to Boost Multilingual Internet se
The European Monnet project is building multilingual ontologies to retrieve and present information across languages, as well as to meet industry and governmental...
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