Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls | The Verge

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 8:25 AM EDT (The Verge)

Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to media results. Microsoft's new Internet Explorer browser for Xbox will expand on this …

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Google Gets First Licenses For Driverless Cars - Forbes

Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 8:12 AM EDT (Forbes)

Driving on long, lonely desert roads through the state of Nevada, sometimes the only hint of other human beings comes in the form of a single car, speeding in the opposite direction and passing for only a second. Only now, that car might not have anyone inside of it.

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Android fans: pay for your apps, please

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 8:18 AM EDT ( PC Pro blog)

 The Football Manager series is one of the world’s most popular gaming franchises, and no-one could deny that its iOS version has been a success. The recently released Android version, though, isn’t doing quite as well, with studio boss Miles Jacobson claiming tha …

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How Geniuses Think

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 1:08 PM EDT (The Creativity Post)

How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced "Mona Lisa," as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons, daVincis, Darwins, Picassos, Michelangelos, Galileos …

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China plans national, unified CPU architecture | ExtremeTech

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:21 AM EDT ()

According to reports from various industry sources, the Chinese government has begun the process of picking a national computer chip instruction set architecture (ISA). This ISA would have to be used for any projects backed with government money — which, in a communist coun …

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Apple II Forever: a 35th-Anniversary Tribute to Apple’s First Iconic Product | Techland | TIME.com

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:06 PM EDT (TIME)

Thirty-five years ago, on April 16 and 17, 1977, more than twelve thousand proto-geeks flooded into San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. They were there to attend a new event called the West Coast Computer Faire, and the room brimmed with excitement over a new, futuristic gizm …

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Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs  - Technology Review

Seeded on Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:03 PM EDT (Technology Review)

Logic gates that exploit the swarming behaviour of soldier crabs have been built and tested in Japan. One of the hot topics in computer science is the study of unconventional forms of computation.   This is motivated by two lines of thought. The first is theoretical--ordin …

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The history of supercomputers - Slideshow | ExtremeTech

Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:28 PM EDT (ExtremeTech)

Have you ever wondered why a supercomputer is called a supercomputer? Is it the number of processors or the amount of RAM? Must a supercomputer occupy a certain amount of space, or consume a specific amount of power? The first supercomputer, the Control Data Corporation (CDC) 66 …

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Improbable PC Pioneer: Commodore’s Jack Tramiel, 1928-2012 | Techland | TIME.com

Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:19 AM EDT (TIME)

 The PC industry is so young that a remarkable percentage of its most significant figures are still with us. But it lost a key one on Sunday when Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died at 83. Commodore was one of the first important PC companies, and Tramiel, in his own …

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When computers were sexy: Hilarious vintage ads from the early days of the PC | Mail Online

Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 8:29 AM EDT (the Mail online)

Companies such as Apple have made their name by marketing their products not just as technological tools but as glamorous and fun toys. But this marketing technique is nothing new, as these vintage adverts from the early days of PCs show. They portray computers as fun, easy to  …

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25 Years of IBM’s OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System | Techland | TIME.com

Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2012 11:04 AM EDT (TIME)

It was one of the most ambitious computer product announcements in history. On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry which it had jump-started less than six years earlier with the introduction of  …

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Suddenly Microsoft is the Hippest Tech Company Around - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:35 AM EDT ()

While Apple and Google are busy getting bad press for their privacy issues, labor practices and general big-evil-company wrongdoings, Microsoft has done some brand regeneration, making it look like the hippest tech company on the block these days. As Apple and Google captured a y …

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Anatomy of a leak: how iPhones spill the ID of networks they access

Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:45 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

An Ars story from earlier this month reported that iPhones expose the unique identifiers of recently accessed wireless routers, which generated no shortage of reader outrage. What possible justification does Apple have for building this leakage capability into its entire lin …

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Orbiter Autopsies | What NASA will learn from dissecting Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour

Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:37 PM EDT (Air & Space Magazine)

Technicians had worn them for decades as they prepared the space shuttles for their move from Kennedy Space Center’s three Orbiter Processing Facilities to the towering Vehicle Assembly Building, and eventually the launch pad. “Bunnysuits,” those white coveralls …

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The first 45 years of Star Trek | Techi.com

Seeded on Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:03 AM EDT ()

Space may or may not be the final frontier, but the television and movie series Star Trek and its subsequent incantations have sparked the imagination of sci-fi fans across the ages.

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CoffeePhysics: A Fast New Physics Engine Written in CoffeeScript - Badass JavaScript

Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2012 12:42 PM EST (Badass JavaScript)

Justin Windle has just released a new physics engine called CoffeePhysics, which as it’s name states, is written in CoffeeScript.

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You Have a Hive Mind: Scientific American

Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2012 8:14 AM EST (Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American)

Every decision you make is essentially a committee act. Members chime in, options are weighed, and eventually a single proposal for action is approved by consensus. The committee, of course, is the densely knit society of neurons in your head.

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If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source

Seeded on Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:08 AM EST (Ars Technica)

Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavily on computer programs, which analyze experimental data and run simulations. In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outside of pure theory) that didn’t involve code in some way.

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Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them

Seeded on Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:54 AM EST (Lifehacker)

It's no secret that there's big money to be made in violating your privacy.

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Seven equations that rule your world

Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:36 AM EST (New Scientist)

THE alarm rings. You glance at the clock. The time is 6.30 am. You haven't even got out of bed, and already at least six mathematical equations have influenced your life.

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Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think | Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:24 AM EST (Stanford Knowledgebase)

An excellent read from Stanford Law: The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal law perspective.

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McDonald's Twitter Campaign Goes Horribly Wrong #McDStories

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:48 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)

A twitter campaign by McDonald's backfired when people started sharing the wrong kind of #McDStories (via @bored2tears). McDonald's kicked things off on Thursday with the hashtag #MeetTheFarmers, in a campaign meant to draw attention to the brand's guarantee of fresh produce. L …

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Stephen Hawking's New PC

Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:20 AM EST (Free Press)

The Acclaimed Physicist and Author of "A Brief History of Time" Uses a Custom-Built PC That's Hand Delivered and Set Up for His Use For a man who was diagnosed with a devastating motor neuron disease at age 21 and given just 3 years to live, brilliant British scientist Stephen H …

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3D Printing, Teleporters and Wishes - Anil Dash

Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:27 PM EST (Anil Dash)

I've been infatuated with 3D printing for a few years now; the rise of (NYC's own!) MakerBot and other startups offering simple ways to create physical objects as easily as we create paper output from our computers is extraordinarily exciting.

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IBM Watson to battle patent trolls

Seeded on Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:10 PM EST (Extreme Tech)

IBM’s Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining.

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