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Wi-Not? South Korea's Seoul To Blanket The City With Free Wi-Fi
South Korea is already light years ahead of the U.S. in terms of broadband infrastructure. Perhaps the lessons learned as Seoul rolls out its program will push the world closer toward truly wired...
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New Google R&D Team Charged With Making Renewable Energy Work For The Market
Forget driverless cars: Google is hiring engineers to develop new technology that can deliver clean energy at utility scale.We've written before about Google's investments in a wide range of green...
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Recollection: A Collaborative Tool For Sharing And Visualizing Cultural Data
A new service from the Library of Congress lets you build maps, graphs, timelines, and trees from the collective digital and digitized history of an entire nation.As digital tools move on, standards...
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Better Than Skynet: Robots Learn To Think In Swarms To Help Us
Imagine a cloud of rescue helicopters descending on a burning building. New artificial intelligence models teach semi-autonomous devices how to coordinate their actions to solve our problems.Like human...
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Data Sprawl: How The Web's Rapid Expansion Will Transform The Global South
Two new reports show that Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015--and that an explosion of users in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East will likely make the world's web look quite different.In...
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Crowdsourcing The Documentary: Egyptian Filmmaker Uses Twitter To Gather 300...
Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution. Where better to turn for footage than the people who were there?"The role of social media is to get everyone to know that we...
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The Amazing Condiment-Picking-Up Device Is More Than A Cool Video, It Could...
The SWITL robotic hand can scoop up any semi-liquid material without changing its shape or leaving a mess. But it might have a real impact on improving food preparation worldwide."Is This Even...
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If Google Maps Explores China, Will It Mean More Freedom Or Less?
Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?Yesterday, Dow Jones...
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Language Isn't A Firehose: James Joyce And The Future of Computerized...
Nearly 100 years after Joyce wrote his seminal polyglot work, are we any closer to a technological solution to breaking down the barriers of language? Not if the recent scuffle over Google Translate is...
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