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Get Ready for Multiple Monitors

Microsoft is boosting support for multi-screen computing in Windows 8 and it will change desktop computing. Microsoft has done ...
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How the Moog Synth Changed Music

Bob Moog's modular synthesizer in the mid 1960s paved the way for a revolution in synthesized sound. From Gary Numan's ...
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Kinect for Windows 1.5 Released With Facial, Skeletal Tracking

Microsoft today released version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK, and made Kinect for Windows hardware available in...
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Amazon Appstore Brings App Test Drives to Phones

Not sure if you should buy that Android app? Amazon announced this week that it is extending its "Test Drive" service t...
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Tesla's Model S Electric Sedans to Arrive in June

Tesla Motors said Tuesday that it will start delivering its Model S electric sedan to customers on June 22, ahead of the July del...
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Remote Control Inventor Eugene Polley Dies at 96

Eugene Polley, inventor of the wireless television remote control, has died at the age of 96, the Associated Press reported Tuesd...
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Comcast Launches X1 DVR Interface, Tips Next-Gen 'Dayview'

Comcast said Monday that it will soon launch its X1 cloud-based DVR user interface in Boston for Xfinity, and tipped its next-gen...
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Alien Hunter Extraordinaire Jill Tarter Steps Down as SETI Director

Jill Tarter, the astronomer who was the real-life basis for the alien-hunting character played by Jodi Foster in the film Contact...
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Can Anonymous Be Stopped?

The beauty of the hacktivist group is that you can cut off its arm and another will regenerate. Years back, a group calling its...
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After Delay, SpaceX Rocket Launches Successfully

After several false starts, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral this morni...
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