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• EmDrive Is an Engine That Breaks the Laws of Physics

  An experimental engine is gaining acceptance among scientists, and could introduce a new era of space travel — it only had to break a law of physics to do so.... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Students at Oxford Can Graduate in Spying

  Students in the UK can now get graduate degrees in cyber-spying approved by the masters of the craft at the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, the... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• How Websites Are Experimenting on You

  

  Websites are using hidden tricks to make you click or buy without realising, and the way they do it can be both baffling and controversial, finds Chris Baraniuk... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• iCan See Clearly Now! Researchers Unveil iPad That Can Automatically Correct...

  Smart screens could soon automatically auto-correct to long or short-sightedness, researchers have revealed. The technology would mean that people would not nee... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• The Physics Lesson Of The Future, And It’s A Lot Of Fun

  

  On a breezy spring afternoon at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, designer Jake Barton is watching a pair of middle schoolers chuck an iPod across a... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Liquid Hard Drive Implants Could Increase Intellect

  Storing information and data in brain-implantable liquid could one day be a reality after researchers discovered a new method of storing data in microscopic... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Amazon Apparently Set to Launch Square-competitor as It Develops Biometric...

  

  Amazon is reportedly preparing to launch its own mobile credit card reading hardware in the coming weeks, according to internal Staples documents hinting at suc... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Five Ways to Become Invisible

  

  1 | THE REFLECTION CLOAK The robotics and computer engineer Susumu Tachi of Keio University has been making people vanish into the urban landscapes of Japan. Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Dell Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Online Purchases from Consumers and Small...

  

  Dell announced it has started accepting Bitcoin for all items available on Dell.com (including Alienware products). The company says it is “piloting” the digita... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Smartphone Application Could Warn Oblivious Pedestrians Of Oncoming Traffic

  Researchers at the University of Missouri, Kansas City are designing a system to alert pedestrians and drivers of potential crashes before they happen. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Mobile App That Fights Your Parking Tickets Raises $1.2 Million

  Fixed, the clever mobile application that helps you fight your parking tickets just by snapping a photo of the ticket with your mobile phone, has now closed on... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Google’s New Project Maps out What a Healthy Human Being Looks Like

  A new project is being built at Google X — the company’s research arm — and it has to do with how a healthy human being should look like. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Edward Snowden Wants You To Stop Using Dropbox For SpiderOak

  NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden dropped his two cents on file storage security in an interview with The Guardian on Thursday. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Practice Makes You Better, Not Perfect

  No matter how much you do it, practice may never make you an expert. But it probably will make you better. “This question is the subject of a long-running debat... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Forget Invisibility Cloak, ‘see-through’ Bodies Technique Developed

  A way to turn an entire body transparent has been developed by scientists studying rodents. Reporting in the journal Cell, they describe a technique that keeps... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• 520 Million-Year-Old Sea Monster With Preserved Brain Discovered

  A spectacularly well-preserved sea monster that once prowled the oceans during the Cambrian Period has been unearthed in China. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• Samsung NX Mini Packs a Powerful Punch

  In the age of the “selfie,” digital cameras and camera accessories are always in high demand. So when summer rolls around and everyone is heading out on vacatio... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• 3D Printing Is Not As Sustainable As Its Defenders Say

  

  3D printing offers great potential for buildings. Taken to an extreme, it could someday make Hadid-like forms so cheap to execute that they become ordinary and... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• FingerReader: A Wearable Device for Reading Printed Text

  

  The FingerReader is a wearable device by the Fluid Interfaces research group at MIT Media Lab that helps read printed text. The device scans text and provides... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 GADGETS, TECH

• UK Police Using Facial Recognition Tech That Can ID Individuals in Seconds

  Leicestershire Police will be the first force in the UK to use a new facial recognition technology that promises to help identify individuals in just a few... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 GADGETS, TECH