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Upgraded robot vision will be just one of the uses for the new version of Microsoft’s gesture control camera.

Microsoft announced a new version of its Xbox games console today, the Xbox One, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company’s body- and gesture-control...

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Pinpoint predictions are a long way off, but taking into account daily odds might help make the public more alert.

The devastation in Moore, Oklahoma, shows the limits of sensing, modeling and warning technologies. While some technologies promise somewhat more-accurate hurricane tracks and thus...

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Can cultural factors be more important than censorship in shaping Chinese surfing habits? Two researchers argue that a new study of the way global websites cluster together supports this idea

How The Great Firewall of China Shapes Chinese Surfing Habits



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Can cultural factors be more important than censorship in shaping Chinese surfing habits? Two researchers argue that a new study of the way global websites cluster together supports this idea

How The Great Firewall of China Shapes Surfing Habits in China



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A techie’s San Francisco home has its own Twitter feed. Will yours be next?

At first glance, you’d never guess there’s anything unusual about Tom Coates’s San Francisco home. Nestled at the end of a narrow passageway on a side street, it’s a peaceful, sunny house decorated with modern furniture and b...

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Jolla Mobile, formed by Nokia refugees, launches a phone with interchangable back-panels and the Sailfish OS

Almost one year after Nokia’s bloodletting, in which it cut 10,000 jobs and closed research and manufacturing facilities (see “Nokia Forced to Take Drastic Measures”), we’re starting to see ne...

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A $300 million project seems to have failed to produce a cheap way to make fuel from algae.

In 2009, ExxonMobil announced that it would pay Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics up to $300 million to develop algae-based fuels.



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Hardware that tracks your head, eyes and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different to the pioneering virtual world.

The founder of once-popular virtual world Second Life, Philip Rosedale, is working on a new 3D digital world that looks like it will be operated using gestures and...

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The ability to copy electronic code makes one-time pads vulnerable to hackers. Now engineers have found a way round this to create a system of cryptography that is invulnerable to electronic attack

One-Time Pad Reinvented To Make Electronic Copying Impossible



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Honeybees
Possibly explaining the recent dramatic decline in their population, Croatian scientists have successfully used honeybees to sniff out land mines. A swarm of bees will be released, and then a heat-sensing camera will be used to track their movements to any mines that might be hidden below the soil....
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