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Things To Consider Before Jumping Into Motion Control Development
With Apple's acquisition of PrimeSense there's been a lot of excitement that motion interfaces are ready to move into prime time. But there are a lot of ways to do this kind of interaction--here's a...
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This Autonomous Drone Thinks With Your Smartphone
Many drones, including the best-selling AR Drone 2.0 Parrot, let you control the drone with your smartphone. A new drone has emerged that actually thinks with your smartphone--as in, you strap your...
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Mind-Controlled Computing Goes Open Source
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are the systems that allow for direct communication between the brain and an external device. Existing BCI models are being worked on every day, but it's all being done...
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Nobody Gets A Quadcopter To The Face Thanks To This Algorithm
In his 60 Minutes profile, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tried his best to assuage our fears about delivery drones in our neighborhoods. "Look, this thing can't land on somebody's head while they're walking...
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How Computer Viruses Can Go Airborne
One day Dragos Ruiu noticed that his MacBook Air was behaving like it had a virus. Over the next few months, things got stranger: one of Ruiu's other computers running Open BSD started to modify its...
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Why Good Programming Projects Go Bad
In 1964, Fred Brooks found himself in charge of one of the biggest software projects ever attempted--the operating system for the IBM 360 series--a new family of general purpose computers which became...
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All The Best Pictures From The Chinese Moon Landing
On December 14, China's Chang'e 3 spacecraft landed on the moon and sent back the first new images from the moon since the 1970s. We've collected some of the best images from the voyage from around the...
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Apple Takes A Step Backwards From Flat Design
Back when Apple announced it would switch to a flat design language, we asked seven prominent iOS developers what they thought of the change. "Even though our app puts content first and has a minimal...
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Three New Gadgets That Shoot Full 360-Degree Photos
Eye Mirror is trying to attack affordability and compatibility for its lenses with a new Kickstarter campaign. The most appealing aspect is being able to attach an Eye Mirror lens to a new GoPro and...
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Apple Could Beat Bitcoin Out Of The Retail Market
Bitcoin is winning over some retailers for its cheaper transaction fees and digital access, but it hasn't permeated in-store purchases on a grand scale and might run into an unlikely contender: Apple....
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As Music Downloads Decline, Expect More Anti-Spotify Anxiety
It's official: We're buying less digital music. Just like vinyl, cassettes and CDs before it, the digital download may have reached it peak, with total sales dropping 4% from last year. The culprit?...
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How Many Hours Per Week Should Freelancers Make Themselves Work?
The traditional workday is not kind to those who do creative work, and it doesn't seem to be getting better. If you work in a field that falls under the wide umbrella of "knowledge work"--anything from...
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These Campus Celebs Are Huge On Vine And Instagram
Marketing on social networks is hard, and as we've all witnessed, bad marketing can be worse than no marketing at all. Maybe unsurprisingly, there is one demographic that seems to have mastered the art...
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A Google Hangouts Plug-in That Makes You A Nicer Person
Now that cameras come standard on every laptop, tablet, and smartphone, video chat is a standard feature. But we're still the same needy, anxious, erratic humans--and it shows when we try to...
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What Does Artificial Intelligence Really Mean, Anyway?
The great promise--and great fear--of Artificial Intelligence has always been that some day, computers would be able to mimic the way our brains work. However, after years of progress, AI isn't just a...
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Amazon's Smartphone Could Sport A Totally Alien Interface
Unidentified sources from the Taiwanese-based supply chain, Primax Electronics, are claiming that Amazon placed orders for compact camera modules (CCMs) for intended use in a soon-to-be-released...
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Here's 6 Last-minute Ways To Maximize Holiday App Sales
'Tis that time of year again when app developers are in a year-end push to move as many copies of their apps as they can. The holidays, after all, can be incredibly financially lucrative for...
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Can Audio Journalism Compete In The Age Of Apps?
Jim Schachter thinks more people will tune into for high-quality audio journalism in 2014. Schachter, the VP of News at WYNC, understands that more people than ever are connected to listening devices,...
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This Apple Alum Wants To Tame Your Insane Photo Collection
The age of smartphone photography has ensured that virtually no event--from the special to the catastrophic--goes undocumented. But it's also created a problem: A huge, unwieldy mess of images,...
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2014: Probably The End Of The Facebook Era
Facebook is losing its edge. The biggest name in social media has gone from scrappy upstart to tech establishment, and at this point, some sort of decline is inevitable. What's most surprising, though,...
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