Computers

Live tweeting from space shows power of social media to engage public

Social media can put you in places you’re not using nothing more than 140 characters and a link. Livestreaming, tweets and networking from space bring us experiences we could not otherwise have and ramp up the public’s stake in what we as a species do.

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Google Glass: inspired creativity but with real concerns

The next “great thing” from Google – networked glasses – has raised privacy and safety concerns even as it ups the cool factor.
COMPUTERS

How to reduce the daily deluge of email clutter

Digital clutter is a curse. For many of us, email has become the major way we keep up with friends both near and far. Here are some ways to reduce the daily deluge.
COMPUTERS

Caltech researchers work on electronic chips that heal themselves

Indestructible circuits are the ultimate goal of research on chips.
COMPUTERS

Brace yourself for the interspecies Internet

Humans have been experimenting with language and animal communications for a long time. Now Vinton Cerf, who most of us consider the “father of the Internet,” is proposing what he calls an “interspecies Internet,” a computing platform expressly designed to connect sentient...
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Will 'smartwatches' be a hit with consumers?

Disruptive technologies can change the computer landscape instantly. The trick is to figure out whether a new product is truly disruptive or merely a passing fad, and on that score, the “smartwatch” is hard to judge.
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Facebook's new search engine a work in progress

Facebook's new Graph Search is both a frontal assault on the other big search engines, specifically Google, and a way of unlocking value from Facebook's one billion users, who have created what the company claims are a whopping one trillion connections to each other.
COMPUTERS

New robots show machines ability to help with daily lives

The cute rug-vacuuming Roomba shows that machines can win us over if they’re done right, and now a new kind of robot is poised to expand our options.
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Future could hold an Apple TV or in-space manufacturing

Make no mistake: It is the business of the future to surprise us. I expect to be surprised in 2013 as much as anyone, but making predictions is a tradition in this space, so here goes.
COMPUTERS

A year-end tech review with an eye towards the future

While not necessarily fully developed, these 2012 products pointed toward significant change in the future
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Gifts for the technology laden

Here’s what to buy for the family that has everything – at least when it comes to technology.