You know all that slightly eerie but kinda cool stuff you learned in grade school about the body’s latent electromagnetic energy field? Turns out your house generates something similar (no surprise) courtesy everything with an electrical pulse contained both within, from gizmos and gadgetry to the wiring in the walls.
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A staple of science fiction movies – a virtual in-the-air touchpad interface – is one step closer with the unveiling of the ZeroTouch “force field” at Vancouver’s Computer Human Interaction conference.
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Created by researchers at the Interface Ecology Lab at Texas A&M University, …
In the British workplace, time is money, and updating the Internet on your life 140 characters at a time is a luxury businesses apparently can’t afford. New research carried out by HCL Technologies and PR company Lewis Communications has discovered that 48% of British companies have banned employees from using Twitter and Facebook at …
Remember the Jaguar C-X75 we wrote about a few days ago, the ultra-sleek supercar of the not-so-distant future? While we geeked out over the dual low-emission engines and feathery carbon-fiber body, we couldn’t help but imagine a futuristic dashboard of corollary cool.
So imagine the collective sad trombone we heard in our heads when we
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San Francisco announced yesterday that it will be placing free electric-vehicle chargers around the city, the SF Examiner reports. The chargers will be available in 20 city-owned garages, including the garages at San Francisco International Airport. They’re not meant to be electric car owners’ sole source of power, but to let them refuel …
Here’s a side effect of global warming no one saw coming: it could negatively affect Wi-Fi signals. A report from the British Government’s environmental department suggests that higher temperatures as a result of global warming will reduce the range of wireless signals, while storms brought on by climate change will similarly reduce the …
It’s nearly summer, which means it’s time for an upgrade if you’re still using the flimsy white earbuds that came with your new iPhone. The only problem? Buying a quality set of headphones can be a tricky thing unless you really do your homework. Head over to any electronics aisle and you’ll more than likely be bombarded by a
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Twitter has found itself at the center of a legal battle in the U.K. this weekend after one Twitter user apparently “outed” celebrities who have legally prevented news outlets from reporting specific rumors and/or stories.
According to the Register, there are around 35 “superinjunctions” in place preventing British news outlets from …
The future of online news is social… and surprisingly casual. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has released results of a study into audience behavior for the top 25 news sites in the U.S., and those results underline existing wisdom and offer a new idea of who is reading their news online, and how often, …
Want to do 0 to 60 in under three seconds and up to 200 miles per hour on flats? You’ve got two options: Splash yourself with a shelf’s worth of random chemicals while holding a lightning rod in a thunderstorm, or pick up a C-X75 hybrid electric supercar courtesy India-based Tata Motors’ boutique car wing, Jaguar.
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He said, she said. In an internal document from Sprint, it would seem BlackBerry’s PlayBook is getting delayed again… indefinitely.
The CDMA variant of BlackBerry’s PlayBook was supposed to launch over the summer. Previous release dates had the PlayBook to debut on April 19th, and the latest one says that it will come in a few …
Apple may have recently become the more valuable tech company in the world, but one analyst believes that’s not enough for the corporate giant. James Altucher, investor with Formula Capital, is forecasting that Apple will grow from its current value of around $320 billion to somewhere in the region of $1-3 trillion.
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