HP, Dell: Biggest PC makers in desperate need of a reboot

Hewlett-Packard Co. used to be known as a place where innovative thinkers flocked to work on great ideas that opened new frontiers in technology. These days, HP is looking behind the times.  Coming off a five-year stretch of miscalculations,...

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Science Proves Sleep Learning Possible; “Learn French While You Sleep”

 Good news for the productivity-minded individual — the eight hours a day you spend dead to the world in the comforting embrace of sleep is time you could be getting work done. Hooray? Well, maybe.  While reading or learning another...

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Get Out of My Head:Technology Capable of Plucking Secrets From Your Brain

 Ready for your life to be more like a dystopian sci-fi novel in all the worst ways? Well, science doesn’t care if you’re ready. Brainwave scanning consumer electronics designed for gaming can be hacked to read other brainwaves, potentially...

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Thomas Edison’s Dry Cleaning Bill to Run $20,000

 No doubt we can all appreciate a good historical artifact, but one of the problems with artifacts is that at some point, sentimentality and historical respect aside, they are just old things that sit around getting older.  That’s...

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Two Nigerian Varsities Shine at Google's Online Marketing Competition

 Google has announced Thursday that 2 Nigerian universities; University of Lagos and University of Ibadan have emerged finalists in the 2012 edition of its annual Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC). According to Obum Ekeke, Google's...

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Android races past Apple in smartphone market share

The mobile space has quickly become a two-horse race between Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Apple -- and one of those giants significantly widened its lead last quarter.  Google's Android surged to a whopping 68% share of the global smartphone...

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Google announces new search tools

Google is making some changes to its most well-known product: search. The tweaks, updates and beta projects are all part of Google's attempt to make searches faster and more relevant.  For starters, Google is bringing its Siri-esque voice...

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Using WiFi to see through walls

British engineers from University College London have developed a passive radar system that can see through walls using the WiFi signals generated by wireless routers and access points. The system, devised by Karl Woodbridge and Kevin Chetty,...

Wednesday, August 08, 2012 | 0 comments | Read More

The app that finds a parking space

 Sensors alerting motorists to empty parking spaces are being installed in British streets for the first time.The small sensors, embedded in the asphalt of each parking bay, can tell whether a car is present, absent or has over-stayed its...

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Apple, Google moving apart -YouTube not on new iPhone, iPad

 Apple Inc. said Google Inc.'s YouTube won't be included in the next version of the soft-ware used in the iPhone and iPad, the latest evidence of escalating competition between the two companies. Apple has featured YouTube as a core application...

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Don't rely on Hollywood to stop 'doomsday asteroid'

It will take more than Bruce Willis to save the Earth from a giant doomsday asteroid, according to scientists.In the 1998 movie Armageddon, Willis plays an oil-drilling engineer who heads a mission to split an asteroid the size of Texas in half...

Tuesday, August 07, 2012 | 0 comments | Read More

Reports: iPhone 5 to be unveiled Sept. 12

Gadget fans waiting anxiously for the next iPhone to be released may be reaching the home stretch.  Apple, which has made no official announcement, is planning a September 12 event at which the next generation of the iconic smartphone will...

Friday, August 03, 2012 | 0 comments | Read More

Microsoft's Outlook hits a million users, including fake Ballmer

Microsoft's rebranding of the widely used but culturally fading Hotmail service is off to a big start.  More than 1 million people signed up for e-mail accounts with Outlook, the new service to which all Hotmail users will eventually be...

Friday, August 03, 2012 | 0 comments | Read More

Incredible : The Cost of Being Iron Man and Batman

We've all wanted to be Batman at one time or another, but how much would it cost to actually become Batman? Of all the superheroes, Batman's wealth is significantly larger than most - with the possible exception of Tony Stark aka Iron Man.  Wayne...

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