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Copy, moving, renaming and deleting make up around 50% o... usage according to Microsoft’s Windows 7 telemetry dat... 8, we want to make sure that using these core file manag... which we collectively refer to as “copy jobs,” is a ... experience,

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering ... construct a "tactile" touchscreen – a display that use... to convince users they are actually touching the ridges,... of a displayed image.
Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

Getting ever closer to the Matrix: Augmented Projectors ...
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On Monday, we wrote about what Microsoft is dubbing the ...
Today, Steve Clayton, who highlights interesting company ...
In the video above, Clayton highlights a project b

Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to th... if properly requested, even if that data is stored somew... the U.S.

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
The word "g

It’s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... it’s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on

Microsoft Research is at it again: The wily folks who cr...
Dubbed Code Space, the project allows groups to collabor ...
While still a very early concept, Code Space shows the p ...
Why the need for so many input devices, when a simple wh ...
The project

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... with an augmented reality app might feel like too much.

Mr. Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely... activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flie... movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previo... playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're u... to the utmo

Programming isn’t only for programmers. But as we move... where technology controls more and more of our lives, it... that’s virtually guaranteed to help you get a job. A g... Forbes a few weeks ago referred to the new world of Deve... world in wh

“in the 1950s, 12% of high-school students perceived t... important person’ – by the 1990s, 80% did.”

The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collectio...
Its purposes are:
To encourage research on algorithms that scale to co ...
To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research
... To help new researchers get started in the MIR f

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is... exciting discoveries. Milne, A. A.

Dr. Pinker’s teaching is similarly accessible. Just lo... questions here, culled from one of his Harvard courses, ... Science.

A MINING enthusiast has built his very own 150ft ironsto... his back garden.
John Wiggins has spent years making the perfect 19th cen ...
Despite being located just 15 feet underground, the mine ...

Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an ...
Cory Doctorow at 10:06 PM April 8, 2010
From the you'd-have-to-laugh-or-you'd-have-to-shoot-your ...
The Right Honourable Stephen Timms is the UK's "Minister ...
... imms MP doesn't know what an

We have found that people often increase the intensity o... when experiencing frustrating interactions.

Materials scientists know that things behave differently...
The MIT team, comprised of Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Jos ...
How the heck is that possible? The long answer looks lik ...
The researchers chose a light-emitting diode with a ...
The gist of

As part of the Lexus Design Amazing exhibition in Milan,... table made up of more than 1,000 squares arranged in a t... attached to a motor beneath the surface. The Transform c... depending upon how users interact with it and can also m... itself to i

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi...
The fibres

MMgc
From MDC
MMgc is the Tamarin (née Macromedia) garbage collector, ...

Tactus Technology is showcasing its next-gen mobile tact...


Essentially, Tactus has created a Tactile Layer co ...
Mobile tactile tech gets physicalA Tactus spokesperson t ...
Well, Tactus uses microfluidic technology to create phys ...
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The recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ...
As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ...
Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ...
It is likel

Mode is trying to do for data scientists and analysts wh... developers by giving them a place where they can find, c... on data.

Take about 30 paper clips, and connect them end-to-end i... Hold one end of the chain in your fingers and let the ot... Gently swing (or twirl) the chain and you should find th... "lock" in on a very specific mode shape which occurs at ...
The shapes

Presentation Model
The purpose of MVC is to separate UI from domain logic. ...
Some examples include scrollbar positions and column sor ...
This is sometimes called an Application Model and the pa ...

Modern Abstract City Maps Paris New York Milan maps London
I’m really enjoying these abstract city maps by Jazzbe ...

Mojo is a floating click-through character and clock, us... technology called Watermark. Mojo features JuJu the virt... Spookie the ghost and doubles and a floating clock. Cont... with this neat little gizmo using gesture strokes. Simpl... with the mo

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of inform... portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framewo... “batteries included” philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t