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27 percent of people in the U.S. get their news using mobile devices

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“News is becoming a more important and pervasive part of people’s lives.”

The guy who bumped into you on the street with his eyes glued to his smartphone may just as likely be reading a news story as sending a text message. A new report says 27 percent of Americans now get their news using mobile devices, something that’s helping to increase news consumption nationally, despite a continuing decline in subscribers to print publications.

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Analysis, Human Behavior

The way you type could be your computer’s password

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Experts are trying several approaches to determine users’ identities solely through their computer behavior.

Imagine sitting down at your work keyboard, typing in your user name and starting work right away – no password needed. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the defense department, wants to turn that vision into a reality. It will distribute research funds to develop software that determines, just by the way you type, that you are indeed the person you say you are.

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Great New Product, Science & Technology News

NEC’s ultra-thin organic battery is just 0.3mm thick

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NEC’s organic radical battery (ORB)

NEC has been working on the “organic radical battery” (ORB) technology for some years, but has now announced its latest ORB breakthrough, the 0.3mm thick ORB. The output rated as 5kW/L with a capacity of 3mAh, according to Geek.com. On a full charge, the new battery prototype can refresh a screen 2,000 times. A recharge takes under a minute, about 30 seconds. The new batteries maintain 75 percent of their charge-discharge after 500 charges.

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Great New Product, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Sony Xperia Sola’s groundbreaking floating touch screen technology

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Sony Xperia Sola

Sony has just come out with another Android mobile that is both unique and possibly groundbreaking as it carries technology that is a first to smartphone arena. Sony has just announced the Xperia Sola, a revolutionary smartphone that comes with cool new technology called “Floating Touch”. This enables the user navigate the web and alter wallpapers (for now) without actually touching the mobile screen. So will this wave of the finger set a new trend for mobile across the globe? (Video)

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Great New Product, Science & Technology News

Universal translator lets you speak a foreign language in your own voice

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Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours.

Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and then use it to speak a language that you don’t. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more personal, or to make tools for travelers.

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Great Videos, Science & Technology News

3D printed nanoscale race car measures about the width of a human hair

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3D printed nanoscale race car.

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology decided to print a race car on a nanoscale, using lasers. “The focal point of the laser beam is guided through the resin by movable mirrors and leaves behind a polymerized line of solid polymer, just a few hundred nanometers wide. This high resolution enables the creation of intricately structured sculptures as tiny as a grain of sand.” This is a technique they call “two-photon lithography.” (Video)

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New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Self-healing hydrogels repair themselves after sustaining damage

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Self-healing, squishy hydrogels

One of biology’s greatest tricks is the ability to heal–to repair oneself repeatedly and thus sustain damage repeatedly, and one that humans have been trying to replicate in synthetic materials for years. Now, bioengineers at University of California, San Diego, have done so via a hydrogel that could be something of a game-changer in disciplines like medicine and materials science.

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