UPDATE: Here's the full-blown Macworld account of the Apple iPhone 5 news.
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The FCC is proposing allowing in-flight cellular use on airplanes. What do you think?
Carnegie Mellon University has been running a computer cluster since July that scans the web for images in order to make sense out of them. The project, dubbed Never Ending Image Learner, could pave the way for computers that better understand the visual world in ways that humans often take for granted.
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We've all been warned about what to allow and not allow our smartphone apps such as Twitter and Instagram and Facebook to share with the world, such as our location. But many app users let it all hang out there, and that's where this video prankster comes in:
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Educational institutions are increasingly on the case of making sense of growing piles of big data, and the latest data science effort involves UC Berkeley, the University of Washington and
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MIT's Tangible Media Lab has revealed 3D "dynamic shape display" technology that enables you to remotely manipulate objects through a screen or on a table in front of you. The technology could have applications for everything from urban planning/architecture to telemedicine, according to the inFORM team. Words don't do this technology justice, so check out the video below.
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It's been said that using word clouds is lazy journalism, but I've been trying to come up with some way to spot trends within the gobblygook that is tech industry executive speak. I poured the transcript from Cisco's earnings call with CEO John Chambers and friends into Wordle.net to see if anything jumped out.
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This new Juniper Networks CEO is a really interesting guy. And a really experienced one, too, according to his Wikipedia entry the morning of his hiring.
As Shaygan Kheradpir's own very up-to-date website notes: he has three degrees from Cornell, has been widely published on electrical engineering topics, holds a handful of patents, helped bring Verizon FiOS to the market and has been a tech honcho at financial giant Barclays in recent years.
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Steve Jobs earned his fair share of awards during his lifetime (including the National Medal of Technology), and honors continue to come his way even 2 years after
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Through the magic of video editing, a funny ending to a Jimmy Kimmel Live segment featuring a 5-year-old smartypants who rejected a Sony Xperia tablet has disappeared. As the kid might say, it's harder to find that original ending now than it is to find South Sudan on a map.
Young Arden Hayes wowed Kimmel and his audience with amazing geography knowledge, but when offered a couple of gifts at the end of the show, he rejected a globe puzzle and then a Sony tablet, replying that his family was planning to get an Apple iPad for Christmas.
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Cisco boldly declared Wednesday: "Cisco Pioneers Real-Time Application Delivery in Global Data Centers and Clouds to Enable Greater Business Agility." The rest of the industry tries to translate that into something you and I can understand:
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A crush of WiFi devices on campus forced Georgia Tech's IT team to take a different approach to delivering wireless service to students, faculty and staff: a very direct approach at that.
The school has augmented its thousands of omnidirectional Cisco WiFi access points with high-gain directional antennas from Tessco's Ventev division that better focus wireless signals.
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SNL sunk its teeth into the Healthcare.gov website mess on Saturday night, kicking off the show with a skit featuring Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius offering solutions for the technical difficulties some folks have been running into with the Obamacare centerpiece.
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For those of us watching the World Series intently, precious little time is left for anything else these days (though mercifully, the late starting games haven't lasted as long as typical Red Sox games so far). That makes Twitter a godsend, allowing us to digest the most important news of the day in 140 characters or less.
Among the must-follow accounts, , which savages one half of the most headache-inducing broadcasting team in sports one inane comment at a time.
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Women In Technology International (WITI) has opened the nomination process for its 19 annual Women in Science and Technology Hall of Fame Awards.
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The many impacts of the federal government shutdown have been well chewed over in recent weeks, but here’s one you probably didn’t think about: It could delay use of drones by news organizations to do reporting.
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From what I can tell, those in the IT industry mainly eat "their own dog food," to quote pretty much every vendor marketing person ever.
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This week's news that researchers Francois Englert and Peter Higgs are the 2013 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their predictions about the Higgs boson's existence has generated a swarm of follow-up announcements by universities looking to get their du
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