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December 2012 Briefing Memo

6 Electronic Devices You Can Control with Your Thoughts

From toys to mind monitoring, brain-computer interface options are already on the market

How Far Away Is Mind-Machine Integration?

Forget voice control or gesture recognition: gadgets may soon link directly to our brains

Microsoft Wants to Denigrate Your iPhone and Android Again

Look how awful that iPhone 5 is

New Microsoft Xbox 720 Promises Latest Kinect, Plus Blu-ray Drive, Says Xbox World

Microsoft's Xbox 720 will unveil a new version of Kinect, a Blu-ray drive, and an A/V port for watching and recording broadcast TV, at least according to details leaked by Xbox World...

Math Reveals Perfectly Cozy Penguin Huddles

Selfish behavior proves to be good for the group when it comes to staying warm

Technically Art: Engineers Make Cameras, Then Hit the Pavement [Slide Show]

With New York City as their backdrop, Cooper Union engineering students use their technical skills to reimagine photography

Technically Art: Engineers Make Cameras, Then Hit the Pavement [Slide Show]

With New York City as their backdrop, Cooper Union engineering students use their technical skills to reimagine photography

Watch: How to Merge Your Real and Virtual Worlds [Video]

Going beyond smart phone apps, augmented reality will take the next steps with Google Glass and other technologies that create a new kind of seamlessness and telepresence. A NOVA ScienceNow video with David Pogue...

Bat Detective

Help researchers identify and classify bat calls

Google Nexus 4 Already Sold Out at U.S. Google Play Store

Just minutes after going on sale in the United States, the new Nexus 4 smartphone from Google and LG was already sold out

New iPhone, iPad and 'iTV' Slated for First Half of 2013?

Apple's product line could be getting a major makeover early next year, a new report claims

NASA Plans for 3-D Printing Rocket Engine Parts Could Boost Larger Manufacturing Trend [Video]

The space agency is testing alternative manufacturing processes for faster, cheaper ways to make parts for its new Space Launch System

Google: Chrome Has Gotten 26 Percent Faster this Year

It's not just your imagination--Chrome really is getting faster

Live Chat on Election Fraud -- November 7 at 12:30 P.M. EST

Join us for a live online chat with computer scientist Andrew Appel of Princeton University. Dr. Appel will help us understand election security and voter fraud in light of yesterday's events...

Quantum Flip-Floppers: Photon Findings Add to Mystery of Wave-Particle Duality

New experiments show that a photon can traverse an optical obstacle course as both a wave and particle simultaneously

Yes, Apple Will Approve Google Maps for iOS

The tech blogosphere (CNET included) went into a mild panic today over a report in the Guardian saying that a native Google Maps app for iOS would "struggle for Apple approval"

Patent Watch: Human Detection and Tracking System

Out to Crunch: U.S. Energy Department Unleashes Its Titan Supercomputer

When fully operational, Titan will use a combination of computer and graphics processors to surpass the world's fastest supercomputers

How Slight Sleep Deprivation Could Add Extra Pounds

New analysis shows that metabolic effects caused by even a couple nights with less than six hours of shut-eye may feed obesity