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How RIM's Mike Lazaridis plans to turn Waterloo into the ‘Quantum Valley’

By Andrew Webster on September 24, 2012 01:30 pm + 51 comments

"What we have here is the Bell Labs of the 21st century," proclaimed Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and Continue reading…
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Cambridge researchers develop cheap, inkjet-printed liquid crystal lasers

By Jeff Blagdon on September 21, 2012 05:59 am + 3 comments

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a way to produce high quality liquid Continue reading…
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Your carrier may be charging you for data you didn't receive

By Aaron Souppouris on September 20, 2012 08:15 am + 65 comments

A study has exposed flaws in the way that carriers measure data usage. A research team from UCLA Continue reading…
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British researchers build battery-powered, Wi-Fi-enabled Kinect sensor

By Louis Goddard on September 17, 2012 08:27 am + 4 comments

Researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK have managed to free Microsoft's popular Kinect Continue reading…
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Researchers use expressive robot to analyze human trust

By Louis Goddard on September 12, 2012 10:49 am + 12 comments

Researchers at Northeastern University have used Nexi, an "expressive robot" developed at MIT, to Continue reading…
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Researchers demonstrate world's first mind-controlled robotic legs

By Louis Goddard on September 6, 2012 06:40 am + 4 comments

Researchers at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, Continue reading…
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Laser-stimulated muscle tissue could be used to build 'bio-integrated' robots

By Louis Goddard on September 3, 2012 07:01 am + 3 comments

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Pennsylvania Continue reading…
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China's smartphone shipments to surpass the US this year, says IDC

By Andrew Webster on August 30, 2012 09:54 am + 13 comments

According to market research firm IDC, this year smartphone shipments in China will eclipse those in Continue reading…
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Uncovering the 'anternet': Stanford researchers find insects' behavior mirrors our own networks

By Jeff Blagdon on August 27, 2012 07:28 am + 29 comments

Stanford professors have discovered that ants are so efficient at foraging, the way they determine Continue reading…
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Military makeup will protect soldiers from bomb-blast burns

By Aaron Souppouris on August 27, 2012 05:16 am + 11 comments

A new type of camouflage makeup is able to protect wearers from skin burns. Scientists at the Continue reading…