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Meet the Hackers Who Are Decrypting Your Brainwaves
Conor Russomanno, a self-described neurohacker, asks me to close my eyes and relax. After a few seconds, he tells me later, the screen showed a slight spike at around 10 Hz—a rise in the alpha waves that indicates a restful … Continue reading
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Apple TV Just Ripped Off The Roku Player–Brilliantly
Apple just ripped off Roku as blatantly as Android ripped off iOS. But Apple has built by far the best Roku Player ever. Despite—or perhaps because of—being a copycat, Apple has a very good chance of winning the Internet-streaming box war. … Continue reading
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IBM And Chip Designer ARM Want To Monitor Every Device They Can
Today IBM and ARM (which licenses the designs used in billions of mobile device chips) announced an alliance to stake their claim to this new tech territory. ARM-based chips will be equipped to collect data from the devices they live … Continue reading
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Google News Lab Mashes Big Data With Old-School Reporting
[Fast Company] Google is no longer just a place to search for news stories; it’s a place to find raw news itself. Among the 432,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every day are user clips of important events—from police … Continue reading
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What Is Adobe Flash, and How Can You Get Rid of It?
[Yahoo Tech] Even if you don’t exactly know what Adobe Flash is, this is important news. Whether you know it or not, odds are pretty high that Adobe Flash is on your computer right now, possibly putting your system and … Continue reading
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My Retina Tracker Crowdsources Cures For Blindness
[Fast Company, Photo: Flickr user A Silly Person] My Retina Tracker hooks patients with a big, though long-shot, incentive: By uploading their medical records and answering questionnaires, patients may get the attention of researchers who may be doing clinical trials … Continue reading
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BuyMeBy Saves Food From The Landfill By Offering Discounts As Expiration Dates Loom
[Fast Company] New Yorker Carlos de Santiago already has a plan to prevent food from going to waste. It doesn’t require a law, and it could even save you money. De Santiago and four colleagues are developing an online service, … Continue reading
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Nothing Is Untraceable: How The Hacking Team Got Busted
[Fast Company] How did things go so wrong for a company that had the trust, and money, of some of the most powerful players in the world? The answer, in part, is that nothing is really untraceable on the web, … Continue reading
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Lily Drone Is a Flying Action Camera That Follows You
[Tom’s Guide] The camera is the pilot. Lily’s real innovation — if it works — is a set of computer-vision algorithms. After it’s tossed in the air, Lily spends about 30 to 60 seconds studying you to memorize what you … Continue reading
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Verizon-AOL Deal Designed to Raise Your Wireless Bill
[Tom’s Guide] The video streaming-happy data binging we do at home is on a crash course with our budgets once we take it mobile. Verizon’s data plans start at 1GB per month for $60. According to a calculator on rival … Continue reading
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