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Video: Barefoot Atlas app puts the book to shame
Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 1:34PM EDT
Barefoot World Atlas is a charming educational app for map or trivia geeks, and a good alternative for children clamouring to play ‘Fruit Ninja’ on your iPad
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Facebook stock slide continues
Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 9:50AM EDT
The selloff of Facebook continues. Investors pushed shares down an additional 8.9 percent Tuesday, they closed at thirty-one dollars a share.
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Video: PC-maker Lenovo's juggling act
Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 7:08AM EDT
China's PC maker Lenovo is marching towards the top spot in the PC world, say analysts. But its future really depends on how well it can diversify beyond that space into tablets and smartphones.
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Video: Kim Dotcom lodges complaint against police
Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 8:31AM EDT
MegaUpload founder, Kim Dotcom, appears in court to challenge the legality of the police raid on his home.
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Verizon to end unlimited data plans
Friday, May. 18, 2012 10:01AM EDT
Verizon says it plans to end unlimited data plans as customers upgrade to faster 4g devices that run on its network.
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Games we love for the new iPad
Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 8:31AM EDT
The latest iPad is gorgeous to look at, but what about the games designed to exploit that incredible retina screen?
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Half of Americans consider Facebook a fad
Tuesday, May. 15, 2012 11:27AM EDT
Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, half of Americans say the social network's expected IPO asking price is too high.
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Can the Google car drive better than you?
Wednesday, May. 09, 2012 11:18AM EDT
A self-driving car designed by Google is now licensed to cruise the streets of Nevada.
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Apes with iPads
Wednesday, May. 09, 2012 4:32AM EDT
Orangutans are great communicators, whether if it's through sign language or gestures or sounds they make. Now, trainers at Jungle Island in Miami are using technology to help the apes communicate with humans.
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Video: The Way-C: a tablet computer for Africa
Tuesday, May. 08, 2012 7:21AM EDT
Africa's first homegrown tablet computer has gone on sale. Conceived in Africa by a Congolese inventor, it's called the Way-C, meaning "starlight" in a dialect of northern Congo. It was built in China, and cost just 170,000 dollars to bring from the design stage to the shop floor.
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Retina implants gives sight to blind mice
Monday, May. 07, 2012 1:00PM EDT
Transplanting light-sensitive photoreceptors into the eyes of visually impaired mice has helped them see again in groundbreaking experiments conducted by British scientists.
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Video: Five questions for Facebook's Zuckerberg
Monday, May. 07, 2012 7:30AM EDT
Before investing in the Facebook initial public offering, BNN looks at the five questions for Mark Zuckerberg that Jeff Corbin, CEO of KCSA Strategic Communications, suggests be asked.
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RIM unveils BlackBerry 10 prototype
Tuesday, May. 01, 2012 3:42PM EDT
Research in Motion's new boss has introduced the BlackBerry 10 OS on a prototype smartphone. CEO Thorsten Heins told the crowd of developers that RIM is taking their time with the software, but did not give a launch date
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Reading into Microsoft's Nook deal
Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 4:57PM EDT
Microsoft is taking a stake in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader, opening up a new chapter in the four-way fight for dominance between tech titans Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple
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Scan shows inner-workings of water beetle
Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 11:13AM EDT
A computed microtomography video showing the intricate inner workings of the Dryops water beetle has won first prize in a prestigious international competition.
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New particle discovery could revolutionize computing
Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 9:57AM EDT
Newly discovered Majorana particles are scientists' best chance to create subatomic supercomputers that could store as many pieces of information as there are particles in the universe.
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Video: Meet Peng Peng the cloned sheep, and also the future
Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012 11:12AM EDT
Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a "good" type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease.
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Swedish firm pushing eye-tracking technology
Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012 8:55AM EDT
A company in Sweden is hoping to make eye-tracking technology readily available in the mass market, to use with computers, games and help with other tasks, too.
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App Review: Draw Something a social game for all
Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 12:47PM EDT
We review the Draw Something (for iOS) the chart-topping paid app from social game makers OMGPOP and Zynga
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Video: New e-reader adjusts to light levels
Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 6:57AM EDT
New e-reader adjusts to light level from sunshine to nighttime. New Barnes and Noble reader adjusts brightness of screen and print.
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Video: U.S. Justice Department sues Apple, publishers
Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 1:06PM EDT
Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday that the Justice Department had filed suit against Apple and five book publishing companies, alleging that they conspired to set prices on e-books
