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This trend makes Utah’s accomplishment even more notew... years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 perce... to end homelessness by 2015.
How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homele ...

What Google has actually done is create a powerful infra... shape of that infrastructure influences everything that ... influences the allocation of mental resources of everyon...
That's a lot of power to put in the hands of a company t ...
But in the

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom v... without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be b... using property drop zones; dynamically positioned using ... directly moved, rotated, and resized using handles. Lyra... data pipeli

London Design Festival 2013: London's V&A Museum has add... first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection a

What is V8?
V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the o ...
V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd e ...
V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ a ...

GOOGLE'S $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility ...
How might Google, a company famously fond of numbers and ...
"Motorola has a portfolio of 24,500 patents and pate ...
Using one of the industries recent patent auctions a ...
... lio and

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For

The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a powerful open-... source code maintenance. It is provided on the the Xcode... accompanies Mac OS X or as a part of the Xcode developme... online. This article covers some of the most commonly us... CVS, with e

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

# Medevec, V., & Gilovich, T. (1995). The experience of ... and why? Psychological Review, 102(2), 379-395.
# Medevec, V., & Gilovich, T. (1994). The temporal patte ...

Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the righ... Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flight

Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces – ... pieces by artists and designers, and as engineering-driv... products that are taken to market. But, as Danielle Wild... future for wearable technologies lies in creating produc... aesthetic q

Between 75% and 80% of television viewing will remain in... television viewing environment for the next 10 years in ... the US, and the 30 second spot will continue to dominate... advertising. That is the view of Simon Thomas, Strategic...
However, wh

Videos in User-System Interaction (USI)

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the lates... local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech us... Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology craft... mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a d...
Vinay Venka

A meta-study carried out by the American Psychological A... claimed that playing computer games has many positive ef... and, in some cases, the more violent the game the more b... effect.
The research, published in the latest issue of American ...

People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every ye... avatars, and bling: these virtual objects are nothing mo... of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhe... What could possibly possess people to spend real, hard e... ‘objects

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Working with his father, Ron Sears, Nick Sears is design ...

FIFTEEN years ago, the bid to create Australia's first b... university researchers pillaging old stereos for parts.
However today, 154 researchers led by biomedical enginee ...

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

This website provides an overview of our attempts to a m... Web.
The term Data Web refers to the evolution of a mainly do ...
The term Visual Data Web reflects our goal of making the ...

How do you set up a computer workstation? Do you buy mon... remove the CPU from beneath the monitor. Will even lower... cause neck strain? Can you get away with tipping the mon... glare or should you invest in indirect lighting? How abo...
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At the end of each month I pull together a collection of... the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’v... during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter y... of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s ... collection