Technology, Media, and Design
The simplest grammar, long thought to be one of the skills that separate man from beast, can be taught to a common songbird, new research suggests.
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As Malaysia prepares to pick its first astronaut, the country's space agency is hunting for solutions to the problems it expects devout Muslims to face while in orbit, such as in which direction to pray.
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A new study finds that supermassive black holes, located at the heart of some galaxies, are the most fuel efficient engines in the universe.
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Doctor Who's robotic dog K9 is to get its own TV spin-off featuring a mixture of live action and computer animation.
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Being able to provide soldiers with bird-like eyes on the backs of their heads and the ability to see in the dark would provide a substantial benefit to the military.
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Birds and rainwater are inside the steel-concrete shelter hastily built over the reactor that blew up in 1986, and officials worry about what is getting out.
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Blackbolt, the creator of the MC360 skin project for Xbox Media Center, received a friendly call from Microsoft who... aren't going to shut him down.
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Blackbolt, the creator of the MC360 skin project for Xbox Media Center, received a friendly call from Microsoft who... aren't going to shut him down.
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A new research laboratory which opened in Germany on Monday is to develop semiconductor chips that go beyond today's dual-core products, which pack two processors on one chip, to a era where chips contain tens or even hundreds of cores.
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Viacom Inc. is wagering big in the digital space with its acquisition Monday of the game-related online community site Xfire.
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LG's super slim TX Express notebook uses groundbreaking Carbon Nano Tube (CNT) technology to reduce heat emissions and boost energy efficiency.
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In recent experiments, physicists have replicated conditions of the infant universe--with startling results.
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"Titanic" director James Cameron, warning that Hollywood is "in a fight for survival," wants the movie industry to offer films in digital 3-D to counteract declining sales and rampant piracy.
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Researchers are focusing on laser light because they think advanced intelligent beings would use it to communicate with us, rather than the far more primitive radio signal.
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AbstractFonts has tons of free fonts and cool dynamic interface which lets you preview them without having to constantly reload the page. Categorized by designer, style, or alphabetically.
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Microsoft sees its push onto college campuses as a way to promote its new Windows Live platform, an advertising-funded one-stop shop for Microsoft's Web services from e-mail to news to instant messaging to blogs.
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Sony’s PlayStation 3 is coming soon, for sure. More than anything else, the recent cut in the price of PlayStation 2 has come as the latest sign of it.
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The United Nations is calling for the milk, which is rich in vitamins B and C and has 10 times more iron than cow's milk, to be sold to the West.
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We've all heard of leathery skin, but this macabre object is the real thing: a book bound in human skin.
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Spring has arrived on the South Dakota prairie, and with it comes a new worry for endangered black-footed ferrets: the return of the plague.
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No other planet has been a greater source of fascination for mankind than Mars. The reason behind Mars’ continuing appeal is the possibility that the red planet may support life. Now, this possibility has just improved.
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