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Nonverbal Teen Gets The Gift Of Communication For Christmas
It's hard to imagine that Raymond Lara has never spoken to his family. The 15-year-old high school student has never been able to form his thoughts into words or share his dreams for the future. And...
View ArticleHealth Care Law Is Not The First New Program With Launch Woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Although multiple problems have snarled the rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, it's hardly the first time a new, sprawling government program has been...
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Software Takes Command: An Interview With New Media Theorist Lev Manovich,...
This is part 2 of my interview with Lev Manovich, author of the new book Software Takes Command; part 1 can be read here. Still from Jeremy Blake's digital animation, Sodium Fox (2005), courtesy Kinz...
View ArticleMike Lazaridis Sells BlackBerry Shares For $26 Million
TORONTO, Cananda - Mike Lazaridis has cashed in shares of BlackBerry, making US$26 million in the process, as he lessens his stake in the smartphone company he helped create.Documents filed with U.S....
View ArticleTarget Hackers Stole PINs: Source
By Jim Finkle and David Henry BOSTON/NEW YORK, Dec 24 (Reuters) - The hackers who attacked Target Corp and compromised up to 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to steal encrypted...
View ArticleShock Therapy Can 'Erase' Bad Memories, Brain Researchers Show
In the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, unhappy lovers undergo an experimental brain treatment to erase all memories of each other from their minds. No such fix exists for real-life couples,...
View ArticleEven BlackBerry's Co-Founder Is Dumping Company Stock
BlackBerry co-founder Michael Lazaridis has trimmed his stake in the troubled smartphone pioneer to just below 5 percent after selling 3.5 million shares during the past two days. The sales disclosed...
View ArticleEmbracing the Latency: The Virtual Choir and Global Communication
In his "Virtual Choir" TED talk, which I was fortunate enough to see in person, composer and conductor Eric Whitacre describes the impetus for his project: a quiet clearing in the woods and the...
View ArticleEdward Snowden's Christmas Message: 'Asking Is Always Cheaper Than Spying'
One day after word broke that Edward Snowden was planning a Christmas message, the NSA whistleblower delivered his reminder for the government. In a video for Great Britain's Channel 4, Snowden said...
View ArticleWatch This Awesome Holiday Message Delivered Using 2,000 iPhones
Sometimes we come across a video that requires a great deal of exposition and depth to fully relate its complexity. This is not one of those times. Watch the 20-second video above from AatmaStudios to...
View Article'Metamaterials' Do Way More Than Just Invisibility, Scientists Say
By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new way of assembling things, called metamaterials, may in the not too distant future help to protect a building from earthquakes by bending seismic waves...
View ArticleNew Trends in Wearable Technology
In the new frontier of wearable technology, one simple fact will be the make-it-or-break-it element: consumers want wearable tech to be such a seamless experience that they can forget they are even...
View ArticleTaiwan Fines Apple For Interfering With iPhone Pricing: WSJ
TAIPEI— Apple Inc. AAPL +0.18% has been fined 20 million New Taiwan dollars (US$670,000) and ordered to stop interfering with mobile service providers and handset distributors' pricing, Taiwan's Fair...
View ArticleThe Millions : A 2013 Cheat Sheet for All You New Kindle (And Other Ereader)...
With each new holiday season the reach of ereaders expands, as a new crop of Kindles, Nooks and iPads are fired up. The first thing to do is download a few books.
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2013: The Year In Sleep (INFOGRAPHICS)
To commemorate the passing of each year, we create annual "best of" list (top films, iconic moments, world-shaping events) to catalogue the legacy of another 365 days gone by. We examine the year in...
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Volunteers Help Newtown Archive Every Item Received Following Shooting
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of cards, letters, stuffed animals and children's artwork from around the world flooded into Newtown in the days and weeks after the shooting massacre at...
View ArticleeBooks vs. Print: Actually a Nonissue
When I picked up the current Scientific American my eye was immediately drawn to the cover line, "Google Is Changing the Way You Think." Given the sensationalist tone that often accompanies...
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SPEAK UP WITH JIMMY: Lessons from the Justine Sacco AIDS Tweet (VIDEO)
On December 20, 2013, PR executive Justine Sacco set off a Twitter firestorm with her insensitive tweet - sent right before boarding a flight from London to Cape Town, South Africa - hoping that she...
View Article'Game Of Thrones' Is The Most Pirated Show For The Second Year In A Row
Winter is always coming for pirates. In TorrentFreak's annual look at the year's most pirated television shows, "Game Of Thrones" took home the "top" spot for the second year in a row. With 5.9 million...
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A Peek Into The Future -ITP's Winter Show
Looking into the future is always tricky, but this year I'm more confident than in years past about where things are heading - and what lies ahead. I began my journey into the future with trip to NYU's...
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