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Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look insi...
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* Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.
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The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
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For those of you who remember life before the Internet, ... from the early to mid '90s, access made serious leaps fr... government and research facilities to the home. By 1996,... million people around the world were using the Internet,... million of

This paper explores principles governing the rational ba... agent's beliefs, goals, actions, and intentions. Such pr... specifications for artificial agents, and approximate a ... action (as philosophers use the term). By making explici... under which

What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decisi...
Individuals with amygdala damage are more likely to lay ...
By Katie Moisse
DICEY RESEARCH: Damage to the amygdala encourages bad ga ...
... hen outcomes are potentially negative," De Martino s

The Radius 320™ takes widescreen computing to a new le ...
Advances in display technology have allowed 20-inch, 24- ...

The framework looks at the following four aspects of hum...
* Physio-Pleasure: This is to do with the body -- pl ...
* Socio-Pleasure: This is the enjoyment derived from ...
* Psycho-Pleasure: This type of pleasure pertains to ...
* Ideo-

By Nick Heath, 1 November 2010 16:15
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Online travel firm Expedia has found that data analytics ...
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Just like Information Superhighway and cyberspace, the t... hypertext seem to have dropped out of fashion. Despite t... still the foundation of the Web — one of its core feat... HTML <a> tag is the sole element that produces the hyper... plain text

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

Blue green spiral illusion
You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orang ...

optical illusion Which lozenge is darker: The one on top... bottom?
Illustration by Dale Purves, used by permission
What’s the illusion, you ask? Those two vertical lozen ...

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This study confirmed previous results of an association ... cordless phone use and malignant brain tumours. These fi... support for the hypothesis that RF-EMFs play a role both... and promotion stages of carcinogenesis.

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

Light field cameras – which let you adjust the focus o...
According to DigiTimes, Taiwan's Industrial Technology R ...
Apple is also investigating light field camera technolog ...
But there's a way to go before Lytro tech finds its way ...
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The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati

An experimental new game controller adds the sensation o...
Touch interfaces and haptic feedback are already a part ...
Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices a ...
In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRA ...
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At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate
knINDIAN_KIDS_wideweb__470x350,0.jpg Sending text messag ...
"... Since the urban market for mobile phones in India i ...
The solution is called Voice SMS. It is just like leavin ...
Some of the big operators —

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
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There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
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Outside the court system, “innocent until proven guilt... people’s due-process rights, Kerr says: “A right to ... to participate in one’s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets