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Thursday, May 17, 2012
France’s new president, François Hollande, unveiled a center-left cabinet on Wednesday, leaving out the head of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, who is considered on the left-wing of the party.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Social media is already passé in Silicon Valley. America's innovation engine is now focused on transportation, energy and manufacturing.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
With the expected unveiling of new MacBook Pros just weeks away, rumor mongers have begun to solidify their predictions about the new notebooks. Most Apple prognosticators seem to agree that the MacBook Pros will be thinner, run Intel's new Ivy Bridge chip, and sport an eye-popping Retina Display.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Today in international tech news: The BBC unveils plans to stream all 2,500 hours of the Summer Olympics. Elsewhere, Apple has reportedly engaged in talks with China Mobile, the world's biggest phone company, about teaming up to offer the iPhone; a criminal gets busted in Columbia for failing to log out of Facebook; and a report suggests most computer users in the world have acquired pirated... Read More
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
To quote "The Social Network," if Abraham Lincoln had invented Facebook, he would have invented Facebook. But in a tall tale that would have made the Great Emancipator proud, a blog post fooled some media outlets by saying he did just that.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Nvidia unveils a new GPU which it says should help the the US overtake Japan to claim the world's fastest supercomputer.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A computer program developed at I.B.M. uses game techniques and psychology to influence dieting: eat a salad, for example, and you could win 50 cents.
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Wearable computing, the end of keyboards, enhanced security and sex could all benefit from Touché.
Disney has a new technology, called Touche, that can turn any object, including the human body, into a touch-sensitive surface that recognizes not only when contact has been made, but what kind of contact it is. Plenty of places have covered the details of how this technology works -- which are... Read More
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Mozilla and Google are challenging Microsoft's decision to shut out all browsers other than Internet Explorer from Windows 8 devices that use ARM processors. This restricts user choice, reduces competition, chills innovation, and might have antitrust implications, among other bad things, Mozilla general counsel Harvey Anderson asserted.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Microsoft unveiled an update to Bing on Thursday that strongly leverages social networks, including a redesigned interface to provide a three-column look. Responses to queries keyed into Bing will list experts and the user's friends, who can comment on the topic in the right panel. A new feature called "Snapshot" will display useful information about a specific place or topic in the middle... Read More
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Each chocolate you put back instead of eating is like a set of sit-ups for your self-control
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
His company Canonical has extended its open-source push to smartphones and cars
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Supreme Court and White House rein in patent owners who file frivolous cases
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Suing around the globe
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
The startup has overcome tragedy to create a different kind of social network—one where you continue to own whatever you post
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