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iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features
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iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features

By Gizmodo/John Herrman

Honoring the Father of the PC
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Honoring the Father of the PC

By Jeremy Hsu

National Institute of Standards and Technology Tests Spray-On Transistors, Finds Them Promising
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National Institute of Standards and Technology Tests Spray-On Transistors, Finds Them Promising

By Stuart Fox

With Processor Speeds Stagnating, Researchers Look Beyond Silicon Toward Computing’s Future
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With Processor Speeds Stagnating, Researchers Look Beyond Silicon Toward Computing’s Future

By Jeremy Hsu

Quantum Dot Sensors Could Double the Image Quality of Cell Phone Pics
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Quantum Dot Sensors Could Double the Image Quality of Cell Phone Pics

By Clay Dillow

A Bicycle Suspension with Sensors Built In Automatically Adapts to Changing Terrain
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A Bicycle Suspension with Sensors Built In Automatically Adapts to Changing Terrain

By Mark Anders

How It Works: Upscaling 2-D Video to 3-D
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How It Works: Upscaling 2-D Video to 3-D

By Corinne Iozzio

China’s “Human-Flesh Search” Channels Netizen Rage Against Offline Targets
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China’s “Human-Flesh Search” Channels Netizen Rage Against Offline Targets

By Jeremy Hsu

Apple iPad Rollout, Slightly Delayed, Scheduled for April 3
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Apple iPad Rollout, Slightly Delayed, Scheduled for April 3

By Jeremy Hsu

Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface
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Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface

By Clay Dillow

Claiming iPhone Infringement, Apple Fires Patent Suit at HTC, Warning Shot Across Android’s Bow
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Claiming iPhone Infringement, Apple Fires Patent Suit at HTC, Warning Shot Across Android’s Bow

By Corinne Iozzio

Roger Ebert to Debut His Miraculous New Voice Synthesizer Today
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Roger Ebert to Debut His Miraculous New Voice Synthesizer Today

By Stuart Fox

Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6
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Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

By Tom Conlon

Is the World’s Most Intelligent Music Composing Software as Creative as Bach?
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Is the World’s Most Intelligent Music Composing Software as Creative as Bach?

By Jeremy Hsu

World’s First Junctionless Transistor Could Revolutionize Chip Industry
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World’s First Junctionless Transistor Could Revolutionize Chip Industry

By Clay Dillow

MIT’s Sketch-Interpreting Software Turns Tablet Computers into Smart Whiteboards
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MIT’s Sketch-Interpreting Software Turns Tablet Computers into Smart Whiteboards

By Jeremy Hsu

New Camera System Takes the Guesswork out of Baseball Stats
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New Camera System Takes the Guesswork out of Baseball Stats

By Bjorn Carey

Meat the iPhone Sausage Stylus
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Meat the iPhone Sausage Stylus

By Stuart Fox

Boogie Board: A Battery-Powered Notepad as Convenient as Pen and Paper
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Boogie Board: A Battery-Powered Notepad as Convenient as Pen and Paper

By Sandeep Ravindran

New Breed of Variable-Pressure Touchscreens Harnesses Quantum-Mechanical Phenomenon
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New Breed of Variable-Pressure Touchscreens Harnesses Quantum-Mechanical Phenomenon

By Clay Dillow

Google’s Handheld Translator Seeks to Cross Language Barriers
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Google’s Handheld Translator Seeks to Cross Language Barriers

By Jeremy Hsu

IBM Demonstrates 100GHz Graphene-Based Transistors
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IBM Demonstrates 100GHz Graphene-Based Transistors

By Jeremy Hsu

Marine Algae Found to Harness Power of Quantum Mechanics
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Marine Algae Found to Harness Power of Quantum Mechanics

By Jeremy Hsu

French Scientists Build First Transistor That Mimics Brain Connections
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French Scientists Build First Transistor That Mimics Brain Connections

By Jeremy Hsu

The iPad’s Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right
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The iPad’s Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right

By Tom Conlon

Cooking Sous Vide the DIY Way
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Cooking Sous Vide the DIY Way

By Paul Adams

The iPad's iWorks Suite
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The iPad’s Unexpected, Hidden Peek at the Future of Computing

By John Mahoney

A New Category of Product
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Apple iPad Hands On

By John Mahoney

Sous Vide Supreme Review: The Tenderest Meats, From the Science Lab To Your Home Kitchen
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Sous Vide Supreme Review: The Tenderest Meats, From the Science Lab To Your Home Kitchen

By John Mahoney

Show and Sell: The Secret to Apple’s Magic
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Show and Sell: The Secret to Apple’s Magic

By Joel Johnson/Gizmodo

Siftables, the Amazing Computerized Toy Blocks, Are Coming To a Store Near You (Hopefully Soon)
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Siftables, the Amazing Computerized Toy Blocks, Are Coming To a Store Near You (Hopefully Soon)

By Stuart Fox

RCA Airnergy Pulls Power From Thin Air, Charging Your Phone With Ambient Wi-Fi Signals
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RCA Airnergy Pulls Power From Thin Air, Charging Your Phone With Ambient Wi-Fi Signals

By Clay Dillow

Pixel Qi: The LCD Screen That Could Finally Kill Paper For Good
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Pixel Qi: The LCD Screen That Could Finally Kill Paper For Good

By Lauren Aaronson

Watching TV On Samsung’s LED 9000 Remote
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Watching TV On Samsung’s LED 9000 Remote

By John Mahoney

Exclusive: Inside Project Natal’s Brain
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Exclusive: Inside Project Natal’s Brain

By Jill Duffy

A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames
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A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames

By Susannah F. Locke

Samsung 9000 Series 3-D TV Is No Thicker Than a Pencil
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Samsung 9000 Series 3-D TV Is No Thicker Than a Pencil

By John Mahoney

Cell Phone Radiation Reverses Alzheimer’s and Boosts Memory in Mice
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Cell Phone Radiation Reverses Alzheimer’s and Boosts Memory in Mice

By Jeremy Hsu

wine glasess
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The Grouse’s Wishes For a Happy, Techy 2010

By Tom Conlon

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Our Vision of the Future of Magazines

By Mike Haney

The Future of Your Wristwatch Isn’t a Phone (Yet)
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The Future of Your Wristwatch Isn’t a Phone (Yet)

By Corinne Iozzio

Will The Google Phone Change the Mobile Game By Being Entirely Ad-Supported?
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Will The Google Phone Change the Mobile Game By Being Entirely Ad-Supported?

By John Mahoney

Dyson DC25: Dyson Ball Technology Puts a New Spin on Vacuuming
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Dyson DC25: Dyson Ball Technology Puts a New Spin on Vacuuming

By

Nonja the Orangutan Tagged a Photo Of You On Facebook
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Nonja the Orangutan Tagged a Photo Of You On Facebook

By John Mahoney

Microsoft ‘Cool-Tether’ Combines Multiple Smartphones into High-Speed Hotspot
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Microsoft ‘Cool-Tether’ Combines Multiple Smartphones into High-Speed Hotspot

By Clay Dillow

Tech Buyer’s Guide: Netbooks
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Tech Buyer’s Guide: Netbooks

By Mark Spoonauer

New York State Wants to Put Emergency Alerts in Your Online Games
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New York State Wants to Put Emergency Alerts in Your Online Games

By Jeremy Hsu

Popular Science Tech Buyer’s Guide Camcorders
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Tech Buyer’s Guide: Pocket Camcorders

By Sean Portnoy

The Future of Snowsports Tech
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The Future of Snowsports Tech

By Megan Michelson and the Skiing Magazine staff

New Jaguar Supercomputer Outruns IBM’s Roadrunner as World’s Fastest
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New Jaguar Supercomputer Outruns IBM’s Roadrunner as World’s Fastest

By Jeremy Hsu

NASA Scientist Converts iPhone into Chemical Sniffer
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NASA Scientist Converts iPhone into Chemical Sniffer

By Jeremy Hsu

Shelves full of blue Rubbermaid Roughneck containers. The bottom shelf has large 18-gallon containers, and the shelf above that has double-stacked 10-gallon containers.
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Shop tip: Organize your life with Rubbermaid totes

By Vin Marshall

Google’s Turn-By-Turn Maps for Android 2.0 Kicks Pricey Nav Apps to the Curb
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Google’s Turn-By-Turn Maps for Android 2.0 Kicks Pricey Nav Apps to the Curb

By Corinne Iozzio

Google Voice Lite Lets You Keep Your Number
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Google Voice Lite Lets You Keep Your Number

By Clay Dillow

Microsoft Windows 7 (Finally) Comes Home
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Microsoft Windows 7 (Finally) Comes Home

By Corinne Iozzio

The Future of Laundry: No More Water
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The Future of Laundry: No More Water

By Jill Singer

RFID Waves Visualized and Demystified Using a LED Wand
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RFID Waves Visualized and Demystified Using a LED Wand

By Adrian Covert

Our Favorite Top-of-the-Food-Chain Tech
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Our Favorite Top-of-the-Food-Chain Tech

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Dyson’s Bladeless Airfoil Desk Fan Ends the Menace of Choppy Air
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Dyson’s Bladeless Airfoil Desk Fan Ends the Menace of Choppy Air

By Stuart Fox

A Nintendo DSi with a homebrew illustrator app open on the screen and a "flash cart" cartridge next to it.
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Use it Better: Nintendo DSi homebrew guide

By John Mahoney

Video: Raytheon’s Free Roaming Combat Simulator Lets You Feel Getting Shot
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Video: Raytheon’s Free Roaming Combat Simulator Lets You Feel Getting Shot

By Jeremy Hsu

Orkin Design and Sony Show Off Roll-Up Laptop Concepts
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Orkin Design and Sony Show Off Roll-Up Laptop Concepts

By Jeremy Hsu

Singularity Summit 2009: Supreme Mathematics of Gods and Earths
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Singularity Summit 2009: Supreme Mathematics of Gods and Earths

By Stuart Fox

Singularity Summit 2009: Open The Pod Bay Door, HAL
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Singularity Summit 2009: Open The Pod Bay Door, HAL

By Stuart Fox

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