Microsoft details Windows RT partnerships

Microsoft has announced that five manufacturers will release Windows RT PCs following the launch of the operating system this October. Two systems have already been announced in the form of Microsoft's own Surface RT tablet and the recently unveiled Asus Tablet 600. In addition to this, three new hardware partners were announced, with Dell, Samsung and Lenovo all planning releases for Redmond's stripped back OS. Windows RT is the version...

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Camera-toting EyeRing could help blind people to "see" objects

Generally speaking, the vast majority of augmented reality applications that enhance the world around us by overlaying digital content on images displayed on smartphone, tablet or computer screens are aimed squarely at the sighted user. A team from the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab has developed a chunky finger-worn device called EyeRing that translates images of objects captured through a camera lens into aural feedback to aid the...

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Soft, autonomous Meshworm robot moves like an earthworm

In an effort to create robots with soft, pliable exteriors that would be suited to exploring hard to reach places and traversing bumpy terrain, a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University has developed a robotic earthworm called Meshworm. Moving in the same manner as an earthworm, it looks disturbingly like an earthworm as it crawls across the floor. However, unlike an earthworm and despite its soft...

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Scientists halve fat content of chocolate using fruit substitutes

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a way to halve the fat content of chocolate without compromising any of the properties people prize in the cocoa-based confectionery. The discovery hinges on the substitution of fat with an unlikely alternative: fruit juice. Droplets of orange and cranberry juice less than 30 micrometers in diameter were used as a direct substitute for some of the cocoa butter and milk fats that are generally...

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NASA sending Radiation Belt Storm Probes to study the Van Allen Belt

Radiation is a common hazard of space exploration and space agencies usually tend to avoid it for obvious reasons. It can be dangerous for astronauts and fatal to the microcircuitry of satellites. Why, then, is NASA sending its next unmanned mission right into the worst radiation hazard in the neighborhood? On August 23, two Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) will launch atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...

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المصريون يودعون شهداءهم بهتافات ضد مرسي والمرشد

توافد مئات من المصريين منذ وقت مبكر من أمس الثلاثاء، إلى النصب التذكاري للجندي المجهول بمدينة نصر، (المعروف بالمنصة)، وذلك للمشاركة في تشييع جثامين شهداء القوات المسلحة المصرية الستة عشر برفح الذين وصلوا إلى المنصة ظهر أمس الثلاثاء. وشهدت المنصة حضور عدد من الشخصيات السياسية والعامة للمشاركة في الجنازة العسكرية، يتقدمهم المشير حسين طنطاوي رئيس المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة، والدكتور كمال الجنزوري، رئيس الوزراء السابق، أحمد فهمي، رئيس مجلس...

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مبروك عليكم الدكتاتورية الجديدة...آثار الإعتداء على مريم منور رئيسة الحزب التونسي في مركز الملاسين منذ قليل....

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Use Your Body's Electrical Field To Uniquely Identify Yourself

EEG Machine Wikimedia Commons You are unique. This is one of the more obscure ways you're unique: An alternating current of different frequencies running through you causes a reaction that's noticeably different from anyone else's. Researchers from Dartmouth University are trying to put this difference to use by creating wearable electronics that respond to--and only to--their intended user. The design they're discussing is...

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Mars Rover Curiosity Lands Successfully on Mars After Incredible Effort

After cruising through space for eight months, and plummeting through the Martian atmosphere for seven minutes, the rover reports success Curiosity Triumphant The robot geologist and chemist landed safely on Mars at 1:31 a.m. Eastern time Monday morning/ 10:31 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night. The rover is still tucked tightly for the next day or so, but explosive devices will fire to release its mast within the first day, so the...

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Building Artificial Islands That Rise With the Sea

Paradise Island As climate change causes the sea level to rise, people who live in low-lying areas could move to artificial floating isles. Dutch Docklands International With an average elevation of just five feet above sea level, the Maldives—a nation comprising 1,192 islands in the Indian Ocean—is the lowest country in the world. Sea level, meanwhile, has risen by about seven inches since 1900, and scientists predict that...

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New Technology 2012 – Most Anticipated this New Year

As we gracefully welcome the New Year, we are also looking forward to a number of new innovations and advancements in technology like we do year-after-year. Technology is one thing that has never witnessed its core end or the ultimate satisfaction. Everybody wants more and more in the upcoming years. Talk to a geek and you will realize how restless he is to know “What is next”. So what is next? Just like the recent past years, 2012 seems to...

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GameKlip pairs Android smartphones with PS3 controllers

Handheld games consoles such as the impressive PS Vita, though still popular, are in danger of being sidelined by increasingly capable smartphones and the games that are available to play on them. There is one problem with this transition however: the control system on touchscreen phones and tablets leaves a lot to be desired. Which is where GameKlip enters in to the equation. GameKlip is a simple solution that brings two...

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NASA announces advanced technology proposals

A submarine glider to explore the ocean of Europa, a solid-state air purification system and a way of making concrete out of lunar soil for Moon colonies - these are a few of the 28 proposals that NASA has selected for study and development under its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. Part of the larger Space Technology program, NIAC is the space agency’s way of kick-starting innovation that has the potential to improve future...

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Sci-Fi writers of the past predict life in 2012

As part of the L, Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award in 1987, a group of science fiction luminaries put together a text “time capsule” of their predictions about life in the far off year of 2012. Including such names as Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, Algis Budrys and Frederik Pohl, it gives us an interesting glimpse into how those living in the age before smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi and on-demand streaming episodes...

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