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Say what you might about their products on the market, but when it comes to flashy prototypes and revolutionary concepts, Microsoft is indisputably a clear leader in the industry ... more >>
"Hi! This is your aspirin bottle calling. I haven't seen you in a while. Why don't you come see me soon? I'm good for the heart, you know." ... more >>
Germany is pinning its economic hopes on future-oriented industries such as solar panel manufacturing. But high-tech companies are facing shortages of essential metals as China, which dominates the world market in so-called rare earths, begins stockpiling the highly sought-after resources ... more >>
Imagine your iPhone interpreting your reality in real time? The phenomenon already has a name: “augmented reality.” It is getting bigger by the day. Just last week, a batch of new AR applications appeared for iPhones and their ilk – apps that will give "subtitles" to your waking world ... more >>
Nuclear fusion, the process that makes stars shine, could power everything on Earth if we could tame it. But alas, the last half century of fusion research has been a tale of failure and fraud. Max Schulz reviews Charles Seife’s engrossing book Sun in a Bottle ... more >>
New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously ... more >>
A background paper by Germany's Federal Environment Agency earlier this week triggered fearful headlines in some of the country's biggest newspapers. But the agency is distancing itself from the coverage, saying it had presented nothing new in the report -- and that it also sees opportunities in nano ... more >>
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