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Mind-Blowing Disney Sensor Tech Brings Gesture Based Computing To Everyday Objects [Video]
Disney Research (which presumably has lots of mice) created a new sensing system called Touché that can sense a wide variety of human hand and body interactions, not just touch screens, but in all sorts of objects—even liquids.More »
How Secure Are NASA's Servers? [Nasa]
We expect—or at least hope—that large government agencies put a lot of effort into the security of computing. If anything you'd expect NASA to lead the pack, but a new report suggests that there are a few holes it could do with plugging—quickly.More »
Dropbox: disruptor or flash-in-the-pan?
After Dropboxmade it easier to move digital photos from smartphones to the cloudon Friday,the debate as to whether Dropbox itself is the next big disruptor or just a feature to be acquired or co-opted flared anew. The debate boils down to whether the web needs a neutral storage service that works...
IBM Busts Record for 'Superconducting' Quantum Computer [Guts]
Today's quantum computers are no more than experiments. Researchers can string together a handful of quantum bits - seemingly magical bits that store a "1? and "0? at the same time - and these ephemeral creations can run relatively simple algorithms. But new research from IBM indicates that far m...
The Single-Atom Transistor That Could Break Moore's Law [Science]
In the ongoing quest to push processor performance, the key is being able to effectively shrink their component parts. A new transistor, based on a single atom, may go further than helping speed things up: it could shatter Moore's Law.More »
Google on defensive yet again in snafu over ad-tracking in Safari browsers
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to find itself in compromising positions in 2012, the latest coming after an investigation by The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) found that the company was tricking Apple's Safari browsers on the iPhone and the Mac into dropping their ad-tracking protections in orde...
How the Technology Behind Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire [Economics]
The afternoon of May 6, 2010 was among the strangest in economic history. Starting at 2:42 p.m. EDT, the Dow Jones stock index fell 600 points in just 6 minutes. Its nadir represented the deepest single-day decline in that market's 114-year history. By 3:07 p.m., the index had rebounded. The "fla...
Apple said to cut iAd pricing once again
Apple has once again cut prices on its iAd system for rich in-app advertising on iOS applications, according to a report, as ad buyers continue to balk at the up-front cost of participating in Apple's vision of how mobile advertising should work.Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subsc...
Apple jumps to third place in worldwide mobile phone shipments
Apple’s huge iPhone sales numbers from its latest quarterly results and the overall success of its iPhone 4S helped it grow its mobile phone business by 128.4 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new IDC report. That was good enough to help the company climb ...
Seagate's GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter: High transfer speed, relatively cheap
If you bought a Mac last year, you probably have a Thunderbolt port on your computer doing nothing right now. At CES 2012, we saw a lot of Thunderbolt solutions on display, but few are shipping yet. As of Wednesday, however, Seagate’s GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter is available to order, which ...
