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New IBM computer chip imitates human brain Fri, 08/19/2011 - 13:23 by NeelamGoswami Soon, computers will begin to think like humans. Researchers at IBM on Thursday unveiled silicon microchips that they claim can emulate the brain's abilities for perception, action and cognition. Comments Read more	World's last typewriter factory shuts down in India Wed, 04/27/2011 - 15:11 by Anupreet Kaur The world's last typewriter factory in Mumbai, India has shut down its production plant. Comments Read more	25 Historic Technology Predictions Wed, 12/29/2010 - 11:52 by Wolffgang Gruener It's the end of the year and you won't be able to escape a wave of technology predictions for next year. Most of them seem to fairly reasonable, but they aren't quite as aggressive and entertaining anymore as they were in the past. Here are our 25 favorite technology predictions that were not exactly true. Comments Read more
Skype recovering from outage; problem blamed on supernodes Thu, 12/23/2010 - 16:37 by Jaspreet Virk In an outage that left majority of the its 560 million users without the PC calling capabilities, Skype was down for several hours Wednesday. Comments Read more	Who Is Winning the Net Neutrality War? Thu, 12/23/2010 - 11:35 by Anders Bylund After months of hand-wringing and posturing on both sides of the debate, the FCC has issued a ruling on the contentious issue of net neutrality. Merry Christmas, dear consumers! You got exactly what you've been wishing for! Comments Read more	Google Makes Voice Personal Fri, 12/17/2010 - 11:39 by Gabriel Perna Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has upped the ante for its voice search by making the feature a lot more personal. The Mountain View, Calif. company has taken its voice recognition service and personalized it for users. When Google originally unveiled the service on its Android phones two years ago, it had the ability to accommodate a variety of people regardless of age, gender or accents. With this latest update, Google voice search can recognize individual people. Comments Read more
Aftermath of WikiLeaks Takedown: Operation Payback Fri, 12/10/2010 - 12:37 by Dan Dzombak After WikiLeaks released thousands of diplomatic cables, companies began distancing themselves from the controversial site. Banks and payment processors such aseBay's (Nasdaq: EBAY) PayPal among others began cutting ties to the organization, denying users the ability to donate to the site, and the site's Web hosting provider, Amazon.com(Nasdaq: AMZN), decided WikiLeaks had violated its terms of service, and it stopped hosting the site. Comments Read more	IBM: Computers may rival speed of thought Fri, 12/03/2010 - 09:40 by Prince damin Yorktown Heights, N.Y. -- Computers using a new type of chip that integrates both electronics and optics could rival the human brain for speed of thought, U.S. experts say. IBM unveiled a new type of computer chip Wednesday that integrates both electrical and optical nano-devices on the same piece of silicon, a technology that could make it possible for supercomputers to perform 1 million-trillion calculations, or an exaflop, in a single second, NewScientist.com reported. A thousand times faster than today's most powerful petaflop machines, such computers would have processing power approaching that of the human brain, IBM researcher William Green said. Comments Read more	Printers take skill out of counterfeiting Sun, 11/07/2010 - 10:38 by Prince damin Detroit -- Funny money is turning up in record amounts now that computers and high-tech printers have taken the skill out of counterfeiting, the U.S. Secret Service says. The agency said that in 2009 more than 60 percent of counterfeit bills were created on digital printers. In 1995 only 1 percent were. "There really is no craftsmanship or workmanship in this anymore," Special Agent Scott Vogel, a 20-year veteran, told the Detroit Free Press. "If you're able to put a piece of paper in a copy machine and push a button, that's pretty much all it takes." Comments Read more
Late-night media use causing sleep-problems in teens? Mon, 11/01/2010 - 23:13 by Deepika Garg Staying up late to use electronic media is becoming a habit with the teens, who are suffering mood and cognitive problems because of their night-time indulgence with cellphones, video games and internet. Comments Read more	Minds control computers in study Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:04 by Rakhi Pasadena, Calif. -- A machine that can allow people to control a computer using just their thoughts could open up the world for locked-in syndrome sufferers, U.S. scientists claim. Sensors embedded in the brain have allowed subjects in a study to move a cursor around the screen and fade and brighten images using just their brain, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday. Locked-in syndrome is a condition in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes. In total locked-in syndrome, the eyes are paralyzed as well. Comments Read more	The buzz: Bees are brainy Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:32 by Rakhi London -- Bumblebees have proved able to find the answer to a complex math problem that could occupy a computer for days, British researchers say. Scientists at the University of London have found the bees can learn the shortest route between flowers even it they discovered the flowers in a different order, a classic problem known to mathematicians as the Traveling Salesman Problem, ScienceDaily.com reported Monday. In the problem, a traveling salesman must find the shortest route that will allow him to visit all the locations on his route in the shortest amount of time. Computers solve it in a "brute force" method of comparing the length of every single possible route and choosing the shortest. Comments Read more