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Barclays Pingit now lets UK shoppers pay for web purchases using their...
Barclays Pingit is a neat multi-platform app for paying the odd bill or shooting over your share of Friday’s curry to a friend, regardless of which bank you use. Today, Barclays announced new ways...
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Peripheral Vision 004: Reggie Watts on using technology to make art,...
You don’t have to ask Reggie Watts to make music. He just does. As he fumbles around for cords and components in the drawers and bookshelves of his Brooklyn apartment, everything that falls within...
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Within two years, every Delta pilot will be using a Surface 2
In an unexpected turn, Delta has informed employees that it will be issuing a Surface 2 running Windows 8.1 RT to every pilot over the next two years. The airline ran an Electronic Flight Bag pilot...
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TellSpec identifies food ingredients and calories using science, magic
Some of us can’t eat gluten, while others need to stay away from certain fats. Mealtime can be incredibly stressful for people with dietary restrictions — especially when dining out — since...
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NVIDIA reveals Gamestream, a streaming solution using NVIDIA GPUs
NVIDIA announced Gamestream this morning, an initiative aimed at pairing the company’s GPUs with streaming gaming. Company head Jen-Hsun Huang says the service takes NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience...
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Scientists show how to make an integrated circuit using only graphene
IBM built an integrated circuit using graphene back in 2011, but it wasn’t a complete breakthrough — much of the hardware was based on old-fashioned metal and silicon. UC Santa Barbara has gone one...
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Peripheral Vision 009: Jesse Thorn on using the internet to create something...
“The fact that I’m an independent media businessman is because no one was interested in co-opting me,” Jesse Thorn laughs. It’s plenty easy to make light of with a decade’s distance and a sunny office...
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Researchers beat fiber optic broadband speeds using visible LED light
High speed data is already being transmitted by visible light to the moon, so why not in your living room, too? After the Fraunhofer Institute showed off 3Gbps speeds with LED lights, researchers from...
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Gogo Text & Talk lets you send texts and make calls in-flight, using your own...
It’s not as if in-flight calling is a novel idea: Numerous airlines have given it a shot, and the US government has emphatically put the kibosh on it. Until now, however, making voice calls from...
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Lenovo exec on why you’re probably not using one of his phones… yet
If you look around now, chances are you won’t spot a single Lenovo smartphone nearby. Unless you’re in one of the 15 countries — mostly in emerging markets — where the company’s been rolling out its...
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