The amount of data has increased so much in recent years that the metric system of measurement is on the brink of not being able to properly describe how much of it there is in the world. That's what Andrew McAfee, principal research ...
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Searching for toys and materials in the various early childhood supply catalogs, local toy stores, and specialty stores is both a fun and daunting task. Some toys and materials are a better choice for young children than others, and you can ...
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Characters in my Red McKenna series of novels have a special rapport with their robotic servants through a natural-language communication system. It allows them the same kind of person-to-person interaction we enjoy with other people, pets ...
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The domination of prestige electric cars looks like becoming a reality, at least in California, with Elon Musk’s Tesla Model S already outselling a host of luxury competitors in the first half of 2013. A report by the Californian ...
Jep and Jessica Robertson of the hit A&E TV series Duck Dynasty will be in Norman, Okla., on Saturday, Aug. 31, when the Oklahoma Sooners take the football field for their 2013 season opener against Louisiana-Monroe. The opening game is ...
In the rivalry between digital-camera and smartphone-camera shooting, traditionalists like to say that you still need a digital SLR and Photoshop for certain kinds of effects, such as splash color, tilt shift, and other advanced tricks that ...
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Facebook has designed a system that would allow individuals and advertisers to make direct connections to those physically nearby that share similar interests or are open to receiving certain advertisements. The company's work was ...
Source: Kickstarter Out of science fiction, or epic medieval legend, what if you could have the power to control your devices and information with a single, small object? Look no further, for now you can can possess your own digital ...
As the consumerisation of IT takes a tighter grip on IT users' daily lives, and BYOD becomes an increasingly common way to work, the importance placed on developments in the devices market has grown, even in the last six months. Further ...
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Moving hologram displays like those featured in Star Wars could soon be available to watch on a laptop. Scientists have cracked a major technological hurdle to make low-cost, high quality holographic videos a reality. Until now, the ...
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The Monolith table design takes its inspiration from The Sentinel, a book by Arthur C. Clarke that went on to be made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick. A glass table top seems to balance miraculously on top ...
The new fund will complement the existing Intel Capital's $300m Ultrabook Fund. Intel Capital has created a $100m investment fund to accelerate the development of software and applications for human-like devices. The fund, dubbed Intel ...
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INVISALIGN, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customised, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell ...
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When Larry Goodwin was stung to death by thousands of Africanized honey bees on June 1, the story had a near-fiction quality for many Americans. Goodwin, 62 years old, who farmed near Waco, Texas, was killed when he disturbed a hive while ...
Track forward a decade. Terror has defeated privacy concerns as every CCTV camera in the land, now filming in crytal-clear high definition, is linked to law enforcement and powerful data sifting systems. Sensor technology like that found ...
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