The slick touchscreens of our iPhones and Droids are visually magnificent and the epitome of tech chic, but their slick, untextured glass screens don’t resonate with humans’ tactile nature (that’s why some people just can’t kick the hardware button keyboard). Good tactile touchscreens – screens that impart a feeling of touch or texture in sync with a displayed image – have thus far eluded device makers. A new Microsoft
project could change all that.
After a week with Apple's new diminutive portables, here's everything you need to know
By John Mahoney and Mike Haney
I'm going to keep typing after this first sentence, but before we begin something must be said: This review can be summed up in the single moment when, after using one of the new MacBook Airs for an extended period of time, you go back to your old laptop. And it feels like it has suddenly contracted elephantiasis.
Ramped-up research efforts at IBM and other labs in the U.S. and Europe could lead to more powerful and more prevalent
quantum computers in the near future.
IBM is breathing new life into a quantum computing research division at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, reports
New York Times. The computer giant has hired alumni from promising quantum computing programs at Yale and the University of California-Santa Barbara, both of which made quantum leaps in the past year using standard superconducting material.
Cab drivers know their cities intimately, using shortcuts and side streets to bypass traffic jams and (hopefully) get you to your destination more quickly. Now Microsoft is hoping to tap into this talent and design
better driving directions for online maps.
A self-tuning chainsaw, a massage chair and more of the best ideas in gear
Each month we look beyond the shelves of your local big-box store to dig up the best new ideas in gear. This is the stuff that is better, faster, stronger, and does more than pretty much anything we've seen before it.
read more about > chainsaws,
computers,
digital SLRs,
earbuds,
helmets,
October 2010,
sports gear,
the goods,
TOOLS,
toys,
usb drives,
What's New NELL, the self-teaching artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon, has a Twitter account and knows how to use it
For the last 10 months, Carnegie Mellon University’s Never-Ending Language Learning System, or
NELL, has been continuously searching the web for text patterns and grouping them into different semantic categories, a system that closely mimics the way humans learn. But NELL has adopted another human behavior as well:
tweeting everything she does.
An Australian researcher has built algorithms that let
computers experience free thinking and emotion, allowing them to respond to simple moral lessons found in Aesop’s Fables.
Upon freely associating a trifecta of stories involving birds — “The Thirsty Pigeon,” “The Cat and the Cock” and “The Wolf and the Crane” — the computer responded, “I felt sad for the bird.”
And the culprit is likely a nation-state
The sophisticated computer worm called Stuxnet, which has been targeting industrial operations around the world, was likely designed to take out Iran’s new Bushehr nuclear reactor, cybersecurity experts say. It’s the first known cyber-super-weapon designed to destroy a real-world target, reports the
Christian Science Monitor.
The joys of working from home are many -- peace, quiet, wear
whatever you like -- but the greatest may be the cozy warmth of using a laptop in bed. Unfortunately, as the folds of the bedclothes impede the cooling airflow through the machine, it becomes hotter and hotter, to the detriment of the laptop and its surroundings.
Now, Intel is
promising secret "pillow-proof" technology to prevent this overheating.
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