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With the promise of 3D printing on the national agenda, scientists want to increase the stakes — with so-called 4-D printing. The “fourth dimension” refers to time — as in the space-time continuum described by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski early in the 20th century.
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In 2012, global music sales rose by 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion. This marks the first good year for the music industry since 1999.The music industry’s 21st century renaissance comes down to four factors: Better mobile technology, a growing global middle class, more music-listening options, and an effective crackdown on piracy that is making paid music a more attractive option.
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Cyber cold-war
A lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data for corporations in America was circulated to the country’s internet providers last week by the Obama administration. But, it left out an important fact that almost every one of the digital addresses could be traced to he neighborhood in Shanghai that is headquarters to the Chinese military’s cybercommand.
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Plants are natural friends and always lend a sense of warmth and spread freshness.
Space is a problem for city dwellers when it comes to gardens. But, bringing the charm of gardens in the life of people who suffer a space crunch are vertical gardens that will bring the garden inside the comfort of your house. Designers have come up with ideas that cover the walls with vegetation and give them an all new life. Listed below are 10 indoor vertical gardens that will help you lead a greener life. (Pics)
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A piece of electronics with physical properties, i.e. stiffness, bending rigidity, thickness and mass density, matched to the epidermis.
According to researchers, temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones.
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Drone pilots
Researchers with the Defense Department have found in a first of its kind study that pilots of drone aircraft experience mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress at the same rate as pilots of manned aircraft who are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D desktop printer.
It may only be in its infancy, but a new startup has already found a way to disrupt the 3D printing industry. Makexyz is a 3D printing service with a brilliantly simple premise: Link the 3D printer owners of the world with the designers that need them. It’s like Airbnb or Wheelz, but for 3D printers.
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What do startups like Groupon, Twitter, Living Social, and Guitar Hero all have in common? They are all fast-growing startups that built their business on Ruby on Rails. Rails is the best way for beginners to learn how to build their own web applications and it comes with all the advantages of power, agility, and robustness of these top websites.
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Dolphins are the only other living beings on the planet to assign such specific monikers to known family members and associates.
One of the defining characteristics of human intelligence is language. We like to think that the complexity of our social interactions is one of the things that makes humans unique, but we do know that other animals do communicate with each other. Dolphins are one of the other smartest species on Earth, and new research suggests they may have language skills that are a lot more complex than we thought, as they’ve demonstrated their ability to call each other by individual names.
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Military tops the list of most stressful jobs.
There are many jobs require constant physical activity, or place people in danger if they aren’t able to act quickly on their feet. CareerCast, has compiled a list of the most stressful and least stressful occupations for this year. Military occupations are on the top of its list for the most stressful jobs.
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Google is the leader in the arena of autonomous vehicles(AVs).
Driverless cars are coming much sooner than you think. Cars that drive themselves are set to transform the way society gets from point A to point B.
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Total video views among internet users in the US were up 23% year over year in Q4 2012.
The appetite of U.S. online video viewers appears far from satisfied. Research from video monetization firm FreeWheel shows that the total video views among internet users in the US were up 23% year over year in Q4 2012. That growth has paralleled an increase in video ad volume, which grew 47% over the same time period, according to FreeWheel. (FreeWheel’s data covers only rights-managed videos, and does not include user-generated content.)
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