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The South Korean government has granted approval to begi... what will be the world's first "invisible" tower. Called... Tower, it will be equipped with an LED facade system and... give it a reflective skin — and a striking translucent...

According to the F.T.C., the company, TRENDnet, told cus... products were “secure,” marketing its cameras for ho... baby monitoring. In fact, the devices were compromised. ... a hacker in January 2012 exploited a security flaw and p... live feeds,

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

We’re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding.
People should be able to use digital services wherever t ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m...
I have been

Regardless of setting, here are the typical steps my col...
Forage: Find existing snippets of code to build my p ...
Tinker: Play with these pieces of existing code to a ...
Weld: Try to attach ("weld") pieces of existing code ...
... repeat

Abraham Maslow and some examples of pyramids inspired by...
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Health Check
Herrings - good to eat, not to inhale
... s satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in.

With your help, we're creating a comprehensive database ... towers, cell phone signal strength readings, and Wi-Fi a... the world. Our goal is to become the global authority on...

with excitement building for the release of a new VR hel... Rift - it is worth asking what went wrong the first time... lessons be learned?

Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strat... memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate ... recently announced mega CSET the Insight Centre to emplo... semantic web to make hundreds of thousands of hours of a... content ava

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels....
Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ...
It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ...
Shodan sear

Before Almanzo Wilder married Laura Ingalls, the author ...
In this “Homestead Proof,” one A.J. Sheldon, a fello ...
The clerk of the Homestead office certified that Sheldon ...
Having claimed his land, Wilder married Laura in 1885. L ...
Almanzo Wil

Established in 1984 as a maker co-operative, the Makers ... formed to bring together and promote the best of Welsh c... grown and developed into a strong and vigorous organisat... international reputation for craft and applied art. The ... committed t

The Heritage Crafts Association is the advocacy body for... heritage crafts. Working in partnership with Government ... it provides a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies ... as individuals who care about the loss of traditional cr... works towar

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us ... Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives...
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going t ...
But I'm hardly a naysayer when it comes to tech. I agree ...
The trick i

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

Perspicaciously, Bitbeam is just holes in poles.
The marketing tagline would be something like this: "Bit ...

They can be noisy and distracting or depressingly quiet,...
In the spring of 1962, a fourth-year British architectur ...
In the course of his research, Frank Duffy stumbled acro ...
"The arrangement of the desks was somehow organic," Duff ...
... The pla

A substantial amount of literature has demonstrated indi... to code verbally a series of movements for subsequent re... mechanisms underlying movement encoding remain unclear. ... argue that sensorimotor expertise influences the involve... processes t

The question of what happens to the surplus is really ir... is one specific project. The idea is interesting. If thi... different software projects, I think we might find more ... the part of developers to implement certain large pieces...
Alternative

What Google has actually done is create a powerful infra... shape of that infrastructure influences everything that ... influences the allocation of mental resources of everyon...
That's a lot of power to put in the hands of a company t ...
But in the

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...