You’ve got to hand it to Apple and their cunning marketeers; put simply, they’ve got the formula right. Once upon a time the humble Mac used to be a niche computer when compared to the dominance of the PC, but now it’s difficult to walk into a university or office without seeing a plethora
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Regardless of whether you’re a football (read: soccer) fan, you’ll doubtlessly have some awareness that the World Cup is scheduled to kick off this year. And even though the thought of the 2014 World Cup is far from most minds, it hasn’t stopped news cropping up about a World Cup that
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I was recently reinformed that the word ‘science’ is derived from the Latin word ‘scientia’ which translates simply to ‘knowledge’. This is a rather apt name for science as it is, at its core, concerned with the gathering of knowledge. We can attribute this gathering of knowledge
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Tapping a principle of quantum mechanics and a medieval-looking nanoparticle, a UK firm has created a composite material that may soon deliver efficient, pressure-sensitive touchscreens to numerous
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As soccer fans prepare for next month's World Cup, 11 nations around the world are already vying for the one that starts 12 years from now. Qatar's plans, unveiled Friday, won't bring 3D images of soccer action to your doorstep, but the stadiums will probably be worth visiting
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Who needs cover shots and voiceover when you can digitally re-create the moment? That's what staff at a Hong Kong TV station must have thought when they heard about the US flight attendant who made a hasty exit from his aircraft following an incident with a passenger this week.
Steven Slater,
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Per Segerbäck lives in a modest cottage in a nature reserve some 120km northeast of Stockholm. Wolves, moose and brown bears roam freely past his front door. He keeps limited human company, because human technology makes him physically ill. How ill? On a walk last summer, he ran into one of
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For those out there that simply cannot wait to get their hands on the latest version of Apple’s iPhone and have been champing at the bit to get any indication of when it will be released, the good news is the end is nigh. According to a recent Apple press release published in full at
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Researchers at Yale's Grab Lab aren't about to let the nuances of rotary-wing flight restrict what unmanned aerial vehicles can do. A team there has developed a hand-like modular grasping and manipulation platform that can be fitted to the bellies of UAVs to provide them
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For the first time, scientists have observed a single molecule emitting light when sandwiched between broken segments of a carbon nanotube. The new device emitted
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Smart house tech is about to go a step beyond your average energy-efficiency monitoring systems. What about a house that prepares a fresh pot of coffee when you wake up, plays your favorite music without being told to, and sets the thermostat to your ideal setting? Now that's
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In Japan, robot-led weddings, robot factory workers and even squeaky robot pets
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Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, more or less setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. As such, researchers are constantly trying to mimic the tricks that millions of years of
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For your chance to WIN one of three Garmin Nuvi 1690 GPS devices (valued at $599 each), email us at [email protected] with the subject line ‘The Buzz August Comp’ and in 25 words or less: What was your first family car
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Arguably, the greatest thing about the initial release of the Wii—Nintendo’s faux-next-generation console that makes use of motion control for most of its games—was the subsequent release of many, many videos of ‘Wii accidents’. Looking up this simple phrase in YouTube will reap hundreds
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Ever since the dawn of the television remote control, we’ve been led to believe that any media item that can be controlled must be done so by way of a physical controller. Even the Nintendo Wii with all of its fancy motion-control interaction still requires the user to hold a physical controller
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It was not so long ago that I was pointing out the potential pitfalls of our ever-growing obsession with digital (read: impersonal) forms of communication. Whether its sending emails, texts, instant
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Maybe it’s the semi-jaded side of me, perhaps it’s the fact that I like to explore the possibilities of a Jason Bourne-esque conspiracy theory or possibly I occasionally have too much time on my hands, but Google seems to be increasingly hitting headlines with (arguably) ‘justifiable’
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There are certain points of social evolution that once crossed, it becomes difficult to imagine how life could ever return to a time before their profound advent. And for every Fight Club-loving anarchist who not-so-secretly wishes the contemporary world could return to a simpler time,
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It wasn’t so long ago that Kraft was issuing a challenge to the general populace. They had specially labelled jars of Vegemite that offered everyday folk the chance to help in naming the latest variation of their popular spread. With some 48,000 suggestions, you wouldn’t have been mistaken
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In an age where there’s a gadget solution for almost everything (even for things that don’t seemingly need a gadget), there’s still not a gadget solution for absolutely everything – and I doubt there ever will be such a time where this changes. You may have
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Quantum cryptography is one of the most secure known means of transmitting data, due to the fact that even if a third party does intercept a quantum signal, that interference changes the encryption key, making the tampering apparent to parties at both ends. But a handful
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Never mind that twisty compact fluorescent. The new energy-efficient way to light your home is with LEDs. An upcoming crop of bulbs draw 12 watts or less, edging out a typical fluorescent, and they have a more conventional shape, contain no mercury, and last at least
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