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Fitbit Flex review

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We have truly entered the era of the quantified self. Editorials are shouting it from the roof…


HP redesigns its ProBook laptops for small businesses, prices start at $499

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Last fall, HP took a small step toward refreshing its ProBook business notebooks when it started offering some of them with AMD Trinity chips. Eight months later, it’s time for a real makeover: the company just announced a handful of new models wi…


Columbia University’s low-cost robotic arm is controlled by facial muscles, we go face-on (video)

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We’ve seen Emotiv’s Epoc headset control cars and trapeze acts, but now a small posse of students at Columbia University is teaching it how to control a robotic arm. The appendage, aptly named ARM for Assistive Robotic Manipulator, was envisioned …


NASA PhoneSat returns photos from orbit, reminds us of streaming circa 1998

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The launch of NASA’s PhoneSat mission last year was loaded with promise: finally, proof that mobile technology could power nanosatellites and stick it to The Man. The photos have returned, and… well, Lockheed won’t be scrapping its big satellite…


Wikimedia’s small-screen future

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The office is silent when our small film crew arrives at Wikimedia’s San Francisco headquarters. There’s none of the newsroom buzz one might associate with the operators of one of the world’s largest sites. Hell, the day I started at AOL, there wa…


Traktor DJ gets remixed for iPhone, brings big features to small pockets (video)

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Traktor DJ for iPad showed us what can be done when you resist the urge to simply shrink your existing software or just slide it under a touch interface. Since its iOS debut, the folk at Native Instruments have spent the last couple of months caut…


IDC: Android topped tablet share in Q1 at 57 percent, Apple led manufacturers

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We were expecting a changing of the guard among tablets given the rise of several competitors throughout in 2012, and we’ve seen just that in IDC’s market share estimates for the first quarter of 2013. The research firm shows Android having almost…


DARPA’s low-cost robotic hand gets put through its paces (video)

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This three-fingered manipulator has just about everything you could ever want in a robotic hand. It’s relatively low-cost, it’s powerful, it’s capable of picking up objects both large and small, and it’s robust. In fact, we’ve already seen the thi…


Qualcomm aims to solve the coming mobile data crunch with small cell base stations

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Qualcomm’s been doing very well lately, and most of those chips it builds are for mobile devices that demand a lot of data to serve their owners’ needs — and as more and more folks jump on the smartphone bandwagon, the demand for data will contin…


OmniVision OV2724 should lead to super-small, 1080p60 front phone cameras

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When most front-facing mobile cameras are shoehorned in between a myriad of sensors, they seldom have the breathing room they’d need for truly noteworthy performance. OmniVision can’t quite defy physics, but its new OV2724 sensor could challenge a…