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  Trampoline gaming system could reduce strain while encouraging exercise

  By Adi Robertson on March 30, 2012 07:48 pm + 6 comments

  Natural user interfaces abound of late, but the trampoline-based gaming system below is one of the Continue reading…

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  New rubidium detector makes infrared light visible

  By Adi Robertson on March 30, 2012 03:04 pm + 6 comments

  Infrared light detectors are vital for capturing images in the dark for everything from research to Continue reading…

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  UK Met Office will start forecasting weather on distant exoplanets and 'space weather'

  By Adi Robertson on March 30, 2012 01:16 pm + 7 comments

  The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, is looking to expand its range well beyond Continue reading…

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  Obama administration announces $200 million 'big data' research and development initiative

  By T.C. Sottek on March 29, 2012 07:44 pm + 39 comments

  Today the Obama administration announced that the US will invest $200 million to improve the Continue reading…

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  Amazon Web Services now hosting massive genetic database: the 1,000 Genomes Project

  By Adi Robertson on March 29, 2012 11:26 am + 5 comments

  Amazon Web Services has just announced that it will be providing space for hosting and analyzing Continue reading…

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  Google puts a blind man behind the wheel of its self-driving car (video)

  By T.C. Sottek on March 29, 2012 01:01 am + 67 comments

  Sometimes it feels all too easy to succumb to cynicism when looking at the cutthroat competition in Continue reading…

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  Sealand's failed data haven: why HavenCo was doomed from the start

  By Adi Robertson on March 28, 2012 09:29 pm + 28 comments

  In the past decade, everyone from WikiLeaks to The Pirate Bay has sought safe haven from the law in Continue reading…

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  A billion more movies will be streamed this year in US than watched on DVDs and Blu-rays, according to researchers

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 25, 2012 12:49 pm + 46 comments

  People have been predicting the death of physical media for years, and now, according to research Continue reading…

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  Haptic feedback steering wheel gives GPS directions, being researched by AT&T and CMU

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 24, 2012 08:58 pm + 9 comments

  While car companies and others have pegged voice commands as the answer to multitasking while Continue reading…

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  National Ignition Facility achieves world's most powerful UV laser blast, gets one step closer to 'fusion burn'

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 22, 2012 11:47 am + 23 comments

  The laser at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Continue reading…