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A Phonebook For The 21st Century

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:00:26 GMT

Claire Cain Miller, New York Times

Bringing Cell-Phone Location-Sensing Indoors

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Tom Simonite, Technology Review

Beacons smaller than a person's hand fixed to a store's ceiling beam out an ultrasound signal at a frequency that can be picked up by a cell phone's microphone but not by human ears.

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Advances Offer Path To Shrink Computer Chip

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:29 GMT

John Markoff, New York Times

Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory that has been the basis for the consumer electronics revolution.

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Don't Tell The Creative Department, But Software Can Produce Ads, Too

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:00:49 GMT

Stiart Elliott, New York Times

For decades — maybe even since computers began arriving in workplaces in the 1960s — there have been predictions that machines will be able to perform the creative tasks that usually require human beings. An agency in Paris is offering a new twist on those venerable forecasts, to make a point about the creative process.

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