Global demand for robots is forecast to increase nearly 11% per year through 2016 to $20.2 billion, outpacing both the world’s economy and overall manufacturing activity. The United States is projected to grow at more than 15% per ...
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In daily life Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycles reduced crowding in inner-city tenements by allowing workers to commute from more spacious dwellings in the suburbs. They also reduced dependence on horses. Bicycles allowed ...
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Apple's Mac has been punished by shifting consumer tastes just as has the overall PC industry, data from the company's earnings statements show. But in the end, Apple may not care. "I think PC, and Mac, volumes will continue to shrink ...
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Even as several states have put in place, or are planning, new laws barring employers from monitoring the social media activities of their employees, one Wall Street regulator is seeking exemptions to such rules for some financial services ...
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Google's Eric Schmidt said the company's wearable computer, Glass, is about a year from reaching the market. "We've just started distributing it to the first developers," Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, told a BBC reporter. "It's ...
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Microsoft's Business division, which manages the company's Office cash cow, recorded a 5% revenue bump in the first quarter over the same period in 2012, an increase driven by a surge in enterprises signing long-term licensing agreements. ...
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Even though PC shipments were down 14% last quarter, Microsoft's Windows division yesterday posted revenue about the same as the last year, making up for slumping sales to OEMs with impressive growth in long-term licensing agreements sold ...
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"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." Further reading Outage hits Amazon Web Services as Google lies in wait Intel launches own ...
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Channel 4 has a bring your own device (BYOD) scheme in place but is yet to find a mobile device management (MDM) solution that "truly works", according to its CISO, Brian Brackenborough. In an interview with Computing, Brackenborough ...
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Lamborghini is planning to release a limited edition stripped-out Gallardo with a manual transmission as a final send-off to the long-running supercar. With the 10-year production cycle of the Lamborghini Gallardo approaching its end and ...
More than 25 years after Apple introduced "Knowledge Navigator" as a concept that envisioned the future of computers, Intel has reintroduced the concept as the future of smartphones. Smartphones in the future will be cognizant of ...
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This year accepting a Lighting Design Award meant more than collecting the trophy and posing for a photo. All of the winners were whisked off stage after collecting their trophies to do a video interview with Lighting. Florence Lam said ...
Philip Beesley goes beyond traditional ideas of architecture by asking questions like "Can architecture live?" and "Can it respond to us?" Just these basic questions bring up so many more like, can we exist in a society where architecture ...
Clean energy production using CSP technology has moved out of the doldrums and is making considerable headway. The well-known Desertec project is now in full swing and new plants are being built in the vast desert areas of North Africa. ...
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Google's placement of its own flight-finding service in search results is resulting in lower click-through rates for companies that have not bought advertising, according to a study by Harvard University academics. The study provides data ...
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