Seven years ago, while working at a job that entailed cutting and pasting vast swathes of text for hours on end, I began to feel a wide range of aching, burning and numbing sensations in my hands and arms. I was eventually diagnosed with tendonitis, ...
Speech technology has long languished in the no-man's land between sci-fi fantasy ("Computer, engage warp drive!") and disappointing reality ("For further assistance, please say or press 1 ..."). But that's about to change, as advances in computing ...
Microsoft has picked up a powerful new online-privacy technology that it says it wants to share ... eventually. In a move that could extend its already substantial presence in the realm of identity access and management, the software giant recently ...
Imagine you could prove you were 21 without revealing your date of birth -- or anything else about you, for that matter. Or qualify for a loan without disclosing your net worth. Or enjoy the benefits of e-commerce, e-health and e-government without a ...
A remote-controlled robotic gutter cleaner. A GPS cellphone with built-in-remote car starter and keyless entry capability. A gimbal-mounted cockpit simulator, complete with joystick and foot pedals, that lets you feel every degree of pitch and yaw ...
NEW YORK -- I'm sitting in a tiny post-production studio in lower Manhattan, watching a scene from the upcoming film, Winter of Frozen Dreams. A menacing bass line throbs away beneath the soundtrack –- this is a murder story, after all -- but something' ...
Thousands of pro photographers and gear-addled amateurs descend on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York in search of the hottest cameras and the biggest lenses. Ultrahigh megapixel counts, Wi-Fi capability and GPS-enabled photo tracking ...
NEW YORK -- A car door slams. Someone sneezes. Two voices -- one male, one female -- emerge from the din of traffic surrounding an urban parking lot, their conversation captured by a hidden surveillance microphone. Suddenly, the sound pops like a ...
ROSY-FINGERED dawn arrived in Montauk as I clambered up a sand dune covered in pink rosa rugosa. The sun hadn’t yet burned off the mist, but the beachfront views were priceless. An enormous hunk of driftwood lay nearby, carried ashore by the gently ...
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