Microsoft, Intel era at CES gives way to rising star Nvidia
For most of its 23 years, Nvidia was best known for building graphics processors that helped computers display high-powered computer games.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 4, 2017
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Women as decorative accessories: Keep silent or take a stance?
How do Italian women react once they are made aware that using bikini-clad models draped over sports cars or scantily dressed actresses on television actually degrades and objectifies the female sex into mere sexual objects? ...
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2017
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Review: Acer Spin 3 is a laptop that's also a tablet, and that's just right
While Apple is content to keep its laptop and tablet hardware separate, Windows PC manufacturers seem determined to bring them together.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 4, 2017
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Adobe looks to artificial intelligence to make products more approachable
A teary-eyed Mala Sharma felt vindicated as she stood outside a school for impoverished children in India. A student had snatched the Adobe Systems executive's iPad and had a go with the company's simplest video editing program. ...
Software
Jan 4, 2017
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India to launch 103 satellites in record single mission
India will launch a rocket carrying 103 satellites next month in a record single mission, a report said Wednesday, as its famously frugal space agency looks to zoom ahead in the commercial space race.
Space Exploration
Jan 4, 2017
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Spray Combustion Consortium formed to improve engine design
Sandia National Laboratories has formed an industry-funded Spray Combustion Consortium to better understand fuel injection by developing modeling tools. Control of fuel sprays is key to the development of clean, affordable ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 4, 2017
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New tool promotes collaboration and productivity
Researchers have long known that collaboration and help seeking are keys to boosting productivity and producing better work. But few tools currently exist to facilitate these behaviors in effective ways.
Other
Jan 4, 2017
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When the Arctic coast retreats, life in the shallow water areas drastically changes
The thawing and erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts has dramatically increased in the past years and the sea is now consuming more than 20 metres of land per year at some locations. The earth masses removed in this process ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2017
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China's innovation future depends on intellectual property rights protection
As China's working age population shrinks and cheap labour dries up, the country's leaders have been keen to stress the urgency to move from an economy based on investment and heavy industry to a sustainable, innovation-led ...
Business
Jan 4, 2017
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It's a girl! Tweaking the names of a pest fanworm group
The largest group of fanworm species with rigid chalky (calcareous) tubes belong to the Hydroides genus, and are easily recognised thanks to the shape of their beautifully ornate tube plugs. Hydroides is economically important ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2017
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