Technology: Software
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04-02-2013 • Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
It’s amazing how frustrating it can be to drive in L.A. Superhighways are jam-packed, cars crawl along in the worst rush hour of your life even though it’s only 2 p.m., and yet no one rides the scary subway.
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03-28-2013 • Technologyreview.com
Interactive Data Visualization App Sheds Light on Energy Use and Inefficient Buildings.
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03-27-2013 • Business Insider
If you think the future is far away, think again.
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03-20-2013 • Business Insider
There's a hot new app taking college campuses by storm.
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03-20-2013 • Technologyreview.com
No one really knows if ads on smartphones work.
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03-19-2013 • http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
It can climb ladders, open doors, and it's coming to rescue you.
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03-18-2013 • Technologyreview.com
A program called Scribe harnesses humans on the Internet to generate speech captions in under five seconds.
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03-17-2013 • Business Insider
With the cost of U.S. movie tickets rising, one startup is looking to revolutionize the market by allowing theatergoers to buy tickets for 30 to 60 percent off.
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03-14-2013 • Business Insider
Google, in another push to reduce and rationalize its sprawling lineup of Web apps, is closing a host of products.
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03-12-2013 • Technologyreview.com
The world’s largest search engine is now experimenting with jewelry that would eliminate the need to remember dozens of passwords.
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03-09-2013 • Wired.com
You really ought to save your international friends money with a local number, or at least impress people with a number in Sweden. You can do that with VIR2SIM.
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03-08-2013 • bbc.co.uk
Freezing an Android phone can help reveal its confidential contents, German security researchers have found.
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03-08-2013 • Technologyreview.com
Everpix organizes photos after analyzing them with software that can detect things such as animals, outdoor scenes, and people.
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03-08-2013 • Technologyreview.com
To help recruiters, a startup called Gild has created a database of four million software developers and rated their work. Could other fields be next?
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03-06-2013 • Business Insider
A leaked screenshot seems to confirm that Samsung has an interesting new feature in the works for its next smartphone, the Galaxy S IV.
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03-06-2013 • Business Insider
We speak from experience when we say that translating the jargon-filled, mind-numbing world of personal finance into readable, engaging material for young people is no simple task.
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03-01-2013 • popsci.com
All of the compression algorithms are based on outdated understanding of how the human ear works.
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03-01-2013 • Technologyreview.com
Startup Koozoo wants us to join its streaming video network. I’m not convinced of its widespread utility, though.
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02-26-2013 • http://www.ted.com
Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls."
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02-26-2013 • http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
In case you’re feeling some winter gloom, keep in mind that time is never standing still and the next season is just around the corner.
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02-23-2013 • Business Insider
An "Easter egg" is a hidden message or in-joke that software developers will sneak into whatever project they're working on
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02-21-2013 • popsci.com
Researchers are working to create math programs that watch kids' faces and adjust problem difficulty based on how users feel.
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02-21-2013 • Business Insider
Information overload is a huge problem.
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02-16-2013 • Business Insider
THERE IS little doubt that the proliferation of taxi-booking apps is changing how people get around. Hailo, which is already used by more than half of all black-cab drivers in London, is also available in Dublin, Toronto, Boston, and Chicago.
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02-16-2013 • Business Insider
Mailbox is a new email app for iPhone that lets you treat your inbox as a to-do list and get down to inbox zero as quickly as possible.
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02-14-2013 • popsci.com
Good guys can use social media to find out all about bad guys, and bad guys can use social media to find out all about you
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02-14-2013 • Wired.com
After years of exotic and very expensive machines sequencing DNA, the genomics industry finally looks poised for its cell phone moment.
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02-14-2013 • Business Insider
Rock'n'roll pioneer Chubby Checker is suing two computer companies for allowing his name to be used as the title of an app that guesses the size of a man's penis.
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02-14-2013 • Business Insider
Nowadays it's rare to share something like a photo or status update on Facebook and not have it live on permanently.
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02-11-2013 • newscientist.com
Like living things, languages evolve. Words mutate, sounds shift, and new tongues arise from old.