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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality has turned against the very culture he helped create
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The best all-in-one PC: new touchscreen Windows 8 desktops
It's an interesting time to buy an all-in-one PC, that's for sure. The iMac is thinner and more powerful than ever, and Windows machines finally have touchscreens that appeal to an average user.
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Where the Jobs Will Be in 2020
Urban areas with high demand for educated workers are the best bets for finding work.
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An Early Tale of the Internet
An electrical engineer who worked on the forerunner to the Internet recalls a visitor from the government to the laboratory where he worked -- a place that developed many personal computing and networking technologies.
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Will Google Apps Break The Last Tech Monopoly: Microsoft Office?
Recently I've been writing about monopolies. When they're important and when they're not. The really crucial point is whether that monopoly is contestable or not.
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The Rise And Fall Of Words
Scientific techniques show promise for future linguistics research.
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Hartmut Esslinger's early apple computer and tablet designs
designboom takes a look back at hartmut esslinger's designs of the early 80's, overviewing prototypes, concepts and explorations of apple's first computers, laptops and tablets.
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2012: The Year The PC Showed Everyone Who's Boss
And in the year 2012, the day of awakening arrived, and the great PC Gaming God rose from the depths and wreaked terrible destruction across the world of console gaming.
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10 Raspberry Pi creations that show how amazing the tiny PC can be.
Arcade cabinets, robots, wearable computers and more built by Pi hobbyists.
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The birth of emoticons, 125 years ago
The birth of emoticons, one of 100 diagrams that changed the world: Emoticons made a discreet entrance, arriving in print for the first time in this March 30, 1881 issue of Puck magazine.
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One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'
The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals
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Why all HDMI cables are the same
Expensive HDMI cables are a rip-off and offer no difference in picture quality over cheap ones. So when a salesman tries to up-sell, politely tell him he's wrong and move on with the sale.
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Confessions of an ex Geek Squad Agent
All I wanted to do was to fix computers. That’s the “career” I decided to pursue way back in 2005-2006. It’s the reason I went to a Technical school and got certified as a Computer Technician/IT Support guy.
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The Netbook Isn’t Dead... It’s Just Resting
There's still a market for light, small, cheap laptops.
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The Web in 2013: Already old, or forever young?
New Year’s Day has long been one of my favorite holidays. It caps a week of year-in-review stories that underscores how ghastly the past year has been – fiscal cliffs, mass shootings, super s...
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Eye-Controlled Computers Are Now a Real Thing
When we tried out a prototype of Tobii's eye controller this time last year, it made us believe in technology again. Unlike many prototypes, though, it's now a real thing. Tobii has announced the launch of REX.
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R.I.P. Netbook
Netbooks are dead. Good riddance! Just a few years ago, these small, underpowered, ultracheap laptops were considered the future of the computer industry. In 2008 and 2009, recession-strapped consumers around the world began snapping up netbooks in droves.
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I Just Controlled a Computer with My Eyeballs and It Was Amazing
We checked out Tobii last year, and it was pretty rough around the edges—just a prototype. But now the eye-control tech wizards at Tobii are back with a polished product, and I feel like I'm in Star Trek.
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Why Touch Screens Will Not Take Over
Why personal computers still need the keyboard and mouse, despite Microsoft's best efforts to kill them off.
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IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
Humans talk funny. We invent words. We smash words together, tear them apart, abbreviate them one way, then another. Which is great and fun, if you're a human. Not so great if you are a machine or the kind of human who programs machines to understand language.
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