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Can’t Find Your Keys? Ask Your Kinect Where They Are

If you’re prone to misplacing items around the house and also a Kinect owner, computer science researchers at the University of Virginia have an interesting new solution for you.

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Historical Fiction Author Takes A Swing At Perfecting Swordfighting In Games

Science and historical fiction author Neal Stephenson has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund CLANG, his idea for the first truly realistic sword fighting game.

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Many Wi-Fi Networks Are Running At 1/5 Speed

When large numbers of wireless devices are present, more and more of the routers’ bandwidth is taken up by control mechanisms instead of data traffic.

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Refugees From The Etsy Police Flee To Storenvy

Coverage has unearthed an uneasy underbelly to handcrafted and vintage e-commerce monster Etsy, where a team of “young detectives” play cat-and-mouse with peddlers who blatantly disregard the site’s authenticity requirements.

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Surgeons Go Hands-Free With Microsoft’s Kinect

Microsoft’s Kinect motion camera isn’t just a gaming tool anymore. Doctors in the UK have been using it to control medical imaging during surgical procedures — a task that, up until now, had to be carried out through an assistant.

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Spotwag: The Underdog Dog-Sitter Startup

Spotwag, a bootstrapped startup, emerges as the underdog of the billion dollar pet sitting industry.

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Art Lab: MoMA’s Second Mobile App Encourages Learning Through Creation

After the introduction of its first iPhone app back in 2010, New York’s Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new kind of interactive art app for the iPad called Art Lab.

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Is Google A ‘Brand Killer’?

Google fired back today against charges that its search policies and market dominance make the company a “brand killer,” able to bury rivals by making subtle changes to the algorithm that ranks pages, and letting clients with fat wallets buy better rankings.

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The Voice Of The Network: Douglas Coupland’s Audio-Visual Representation Of Online Data

In a pairing with telecommunications company Alcatel Lucent and musician Paul Humphreys, tech conscious author Douglas Coupland has created an artistic audio-visual representation of internet traffic data.

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Absinthe, Ovaltine, And Google Product Search. Soon To Be Renamed Again.

Product Search is one of the odd Google services that’s always been kind of crummy, but has never been canceled or put on the back burner.

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