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The Tonight Show relaunches with Jimmy Fallon, and of course it has companion...
The post-Jay Leno Tonight Show era starts (again, sorry Conan) shortly on NBC, and with the arrival of Jimmy Fallon the show is also getting an updated tech focus. Companion apps have arrived for iOS...
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Sony’s sold 5.3 million PS4s already, hits sales target with three weeks to...
Sony’s prediction that it would move 5 million PlayStation 4s before the end of the fiscal year turned out to be on target. It just announced 5.3 million of the next-gen consoles sold worldwide as of...
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Restoring a Sense of Touch in Amputees
[unable to retrieve full-text content] A new kind of nerve interface gives the wearer, Igor Spetic, a sense of touch at 20 spots on his prosthetic hand. See the photo essay: An Artificial Hand with...
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Marginally Useful
Bitcoin, a purely digital currency, is backed by no commodity and governed by no central bank, but it exists because a small number of humans have chosen to believe in its legitimacy. Its pseudonymous...
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50 Smartest FAQs
What is MIT Technology Review’s listof the 50 Smartest Companies?It is put together by the magazine’s editors to highlight companies that have displayed impressive innovations in the past year. It is...
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
Igor Spetic’s hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job. For months afterward, he felt a phantom limb still clenched and...
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50 Smartest Companies 2014
It might sound difficult to define what makes a smart company, but you know one when you see it. When such a company commercializes a truly innovative technology, things happen: leadership in a market...
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Bitcoin Lacks the Properties of a Real Currency
David Yermack Bitcoin became a sensation in 2013, when the value of a single unit of the virtual currency rose from $13 to more than $1,000 and people began to use it for daily commerce (see chart on...
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Wearable Technology as a Human Right
Steve Mann Many of us who use a wearable computer to augment our vision have come to rely on it as our normal way of seeing, understanding, and making sense of the world. As we get older, whether we...
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The $1,000 Genome Is Here
Howard Jacob The quest for the $1,000 genome sequence began in December 2001 at the National Human Genome Research Institute’s scientific retreat. That quest appears to have been completed with...
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Smartphone Rebels
Steve Jobs jolted the mobile-phone business by introducing a device that everyone had to copy. Now his unabashed admirer Jun Lei is shaking up the enormous Chinese market with smartphones that cost...
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Making Money
It’s a moneymaking scheme a child might suggest: get rich by inventing a new form of money. All the same, Chris Larsen, CEO and founder of Ripple Labs, is getting other people to play along with him....
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Samsung Galaxy S5 might come with a fingerprint sensor
Folks excited to buy a Galaxy S5 so they can authenticate with their eyeballs and feel like Ethan Hunt might be in for a disappointment. According to Sammobile, Samsung’s upcoming flagship will come...
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Snowden documents reveal that the NSA spied on WikiLeaks website visitors
Two infamous serial leakers’ paths have just crossed, as new documents from Edward Snowden reveal just how much energy the NSA devoted to spying on Julian Assange and Wikileaks. According to documents...
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Sony sold 5.3 million PS4s already, hits sales target with weeks to spare
Sony’s prediction that it would move 5 million PlayStation 4s before the end of the fiscal year turned out to be on target. It just announced 5.3 million of the next-gen consoles sold worldwide as of...
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How to Freeze Your Credit
If you suspect theft or have lost an item of personal identification, such as driver’s license, Social Security card, or credit card, you are at risk of having your identity stolen. Once a thief has...
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Microsoft makes it easier to sign your Office 365 documents
It should now be much easier to sign your Office 365 documents without taking them offline or printing them out. Microsoft has reached a deal to offer DocuSign’s digital signature apps through both...
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HTG Explains: How Does Windows Activation Work?
Windows Activation, introduced in Windows XP, checks in with Microsoft when you install Windows or get a new Windows PC. This is an anti-piracy feature — it’s designed to annoy you if you’re using a...
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UK to finally include streaming in its singles music chart
The UK could soon join its US and European counterparts by using streaming play counts to help determine its top 40 singles chart. BBC News reports that music streamed on services like Spotify and...
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HTC to launch next flagship smartphone on March 25th
The HTC One was one of our favorite smartphones of 2013, so naturally we’re incredibly curious to see its inevitable successor, codenamed M8. According to an invite that just landed in our mailbox,...
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