Gadgets the Pentagon Made — From the Microwave to the New iPhone
By Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman The cool voice assistant that runs on the iPhone 4S? Years ago, someone thought what Apple calls Siri would […]
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The DIY-Drone of the Future Is … a Flying Pogo Stick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5IWrv2gZJg&feature=player_embedded By Dawn Lim Darpa is holding a contest to design the military’s next spy mini-drone. So far, the entrants include a flying pogo stick, […]
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Salute to Steve: Army Shows Off Soldier Smartphone Beta
By Spencer Ackerman It wasn’t one of those epic Steve Jobs product roll-outs. Not even close. But in an obscure warren of the Pentagon, the […]
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How Technology Made Occupy Wall Street Both Irrelevant and Ubiquitous
By Christopher Mims Watching the protest in lower Manhattan metastasize from an eager call for volunteers on various social networks to a full-on movement has […]
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Facebook Shares Its Cloud Designs
If you invented something cheaper, more efficient, and more powerful than what came before, you might want to keep the recipe a closely guarded secret. […]
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QBO as a Telepresence System
What if you could go to the office without physically leaving your home? Imagine yourself being able to connect to your Qbo robot from any […]
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Google Maps launches helicopter view of user’s route
Last week Google Earth Outreach launched our program in Canada, offering support to non-profits and aboriginal communities that wish to leverage Google’s mapping tools to […]
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People as ‘sensors’: Twitter messages reveal NFL’s big plays
Using millions of Twitter subscribers as living “sensors,” engineers from Rice University and Motorola Mobility have developed a way to monitor fans’ levels of excitement […]
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Watch: ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Uses Mirages to Make Objects Vanish
By Mark Brown Researchers from the University of Dallas in Texas have hijacked one of nature’s most intriguing phenomena — the mirage — to make […]
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The iPhone 4S’ Talking Assistant Is a Military Veteran
By Spencer Ackerman Siri, before you became the premiere feature of the new iPhone 4S, where did you come from? Spencer, I started out as […]
