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What Happens When Facebook BECOMES the Internet?
Is the battle for market share of the Internet a zero-sum game? Who will be the biggest winners and losers if and when Facebook becomes the de facto operating system of the Web?
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Do Androids Dream of Stealing Your Job?
If what you do is repetitive, then your job is doomed, says physicist Michio Kaku. If your work involves creativity, imagination, experience, leadership, hey… there’s a bright future for you.
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Temporal "Cloaks of Invisibility" for Events
Ever since scientists in Germany announced last year the ability to create a small-scale cloak of invisibility for a 3D object the size of a human hair, there has been growing excitement about the ability to extend this “cloak of invisibility” to larger objects. Now, researchers at Cornell led by ... -
Why the Tablet Changes Everything
For Strauss Zelnick, the tablet computer represents a kind of Singularity - a convergence of media and productivity into a single, highly portable, optimally viewable platform.
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Self-Driving Cars Have Arrived
2 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Self-driving cars are already here, though they are a technology of degrees. Features like adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping technology will be released first. Adaptive cruise control, which automatically adjusts your speed to the car in front of you, is ... Read More
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Will 3D Printers Manufacture Human Organs?
2 days ago
What's the Latest Development? The results of a groundbreaking surgery, involving a woman who received a prosthetic jaw created by a 3D printer, have just been published. Dutch surgeons who performed the operation say it is a one-of-a-kind procedure. Before the surgery, the jaw was designed ... Read More
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Paul Ryan, Individual Liberty, and the Fate of Medicare
4 days ago
Just as Mitt Romney appears to be wrapping up the Republican nomination for the presidency, congressional Republicans are taking steps to set up their own political framework for the 2012 election. In short, the future of Medicare is on the line and a Romney vs. Obama match-up will surely address ... Read More
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WTF Wikipedia? What SOPA, PIPA, and the Blackout Mean To You
23 days ago
What's the Big Idea? Wikipedia’s call to “imagine you live in a world without free knowledge” may have been dramatic, but it was also effective: after 24 hours of living without the history of everything at your fingertips, you probably got the point. Journalists compared the shutdown of hundreds ... Read More
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How to Regrow a Limb
about 1 month ago
What's the Big Idea? The loss of a human limb is a tragedy. We know that once they’re gone, mammalian arms and legs can't ever be restored. But if you cut off a salamander's leg - or tail - it will reappear in just a few weeks. The enigma of amphibian organ regeneration has puzzled scientists since ... Read More
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The End of Free Will?
about 1 month ago
What's the Big Idea? The field of neuroscience evolved so rapidly in the past twenty years that it will pose unprecedented challenges to the legal system in the decades to come, changing the way we understand crime and punishment, says neuro-pioneer Joy Hirsch, director of the Functional Magnetic ... Read More
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How the Internet will Change in 2012
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Internet industry research service Business Insider Intelligence peeks into 2012 and, among other things, predicts Google will release a $200 tablet; Facebook will hit 1 billion users; Twitter will build a huge business; Amazon will post serious losses but enjoy ... Read More
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Why Pinterest is Sparking Interest
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? For those who've heard the hype but are still in the dark, Mashable explains how Pinterest works and why the site's popularity has exploded from 1.2 million users in August to over 4 million today. A place to organize and share online images, Pinterest is also a ... Read More
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What to Expect in Tech in 2025
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Here's how John Brandon sees the future less than 15 years from now: augmented reality will be mainstream, digital assistants will guide our every move, everything will be translated on the fly, we’ll be using digital scrolls, and some of our employees will not be ... Read More
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Future of TV Sets: It's all about Content
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? TV sets have become so cheap that profit margins have largely been eroded, partly due to a huge rise in manufacturing capacity that caused oversupply and continued downward price pressure from low-cost manufacturers and online retailers. The slump is a hangover of ... Read More
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Next in North Korea: More Internal Instability, More External Hostility
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? The post-Kim Jong Il future of the world’s most repressive regime, North Korea, remains uncertain, writes Sung Chul Jung. But successor Kim Jong Un is likely to consolidate his political power by sticking to his father’s (and grandfather’s) strategy, often called the ... Read More
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Brazil Overtakes UK: At what Cost to the Amazon?
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Brazil has replaced the U.K. as the sixth biggest economy worldwide thanks to vast reserves of natural resources–including gold, silver, off-shore oil and minerals in the Amazon–and a rapidly growing and cash-rich middle class. Also, unlike China, Brazil is unlikely ... Read More
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