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  Microsoft's new Kinect will be coming to Windows

  By Bryan Bishop on May 21, 2013 09:43 pm + 62 comments

  Along with the Xbox One, Microsoft also announced a new Kinect today — and it appears the updated Continue reading…

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  New Sony Windows 8 convertible revealed, shows off slim design in leaked video

  By Matt Brian on May 9, 2013 04:02 am + 154 comments

  Sony appears to be ready to refresh its range of VAIO Duo Windows 8 ultrabooks with the launch of a Continue reading…

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  Raspberry Pi grows up: a $35 mini-computer takes on the world

  By Adi Robertson on March 2, 2013 02:35 pm

  Launched in early 2012, the Raspberry Pi is a simple, Linux-based computer designed to make Continue reading…

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  Creating a crash-free computer out of chaos

  By Amar Toor on February 15, 2013 07:26 am + 16 comments

  Researchers at University College London have developed a computer that instantly recovers from Continue reading…

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  A punch-card pinup girl may be the world's first computer art, and the first computer porn

  By Adi Robertson on January 24, 2013 05:00 pm + 5 comments

  In the 1950s, the world's most powerful computers were dedicated to national defense, but at least Continue reading…

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  Apple's Mac sales drop as the post-PC era comes to Cupertino

  By Bryan Bishop on January 24, 2013 07:02 am + 337 comments

  Apple announced a number of impressive figures in its latest earnings call: record profits, record Continue reading…

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  Mixed-media artist uses recycled computer parts to cross steampunk with Tim Burton

  By Nathan Ingraham on January 17, 2013 03:58 pm + 9 comments

  When our computers outlive their usefulness, we usually send them to the scrap heap, recycle them Continue reading…

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  From computer to printing press, the opportunity and danger of 'copy culture'

  By Adi Robertson on January 3, 2013 03:53 pm + 7 comments

  Though the notion of the internet as modern-day printing press is by now little more than a truism, N Continue reading…

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  This is what computer-synthesized speech sounded like in 1963

  By Bryan Bishop on December 26, 2012 05:20 pm + 23 comments

  While the latest from Apple and Google may be shaping modern expectations for what talking computers Continue reading…

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  Charles Babbage's difference engine captured in gigapixel images

  By Aaron Souppouris on November 30, 2012 04:26 am + 8 comments

  A re-construction of Charles Babbage's difference engine, an early mechanical computer, has been c Continue reading…