LEGO bricks turned into scientific tool to study plant growth
LEGO bricks turned into scientific tool to study plant growth. Engineers are using LEGO bricks to build controlled environments to study how variations in...
Virtual Studio takes the next Level
Autodesk as ever has taken the opportunity of SIGGRAPH to highlight the next generation of its storytelling and collaboration tools. “The continued growth of AR...
Victoria’s Secret Reveals the 2016 What is Sexy List
Style, attitude and confidence describe the women who grace Victoria’s Secret’s 2016 What Is Sexy ? List.
As the authority on what is sexy now,...
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Fingerprints change over time, but not enough to foil forensics
In both TV crime dramas and real-life courtrooms, fingerprints are often the lynchpin connecting a criminal to a crime. Many studies have demonstrated that...
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Will Google Glass live up to its hype in the classroom?
Technology has had a massive impact in the classroom over the last decade but rarely has the arrival of a new device been so...
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Swiss voters reject $25 minimum wage
Swiss voters have defeated a proposal to introduce the highest minimum wage in the world.
The country's election authority said a preliminary tally showed 76%...
Tech venture capitalists finally pay attention to Europe
Many technology entrepreneurs in Europe have grown accustomed to flying coach on the 11-hour haul to San Francisco. The marathon of meetings with venture-capital...
Boccaccio, Decameron, solved the enigma of the last tale: Patrizia de Santis reveals how...
The culturally subversive content of Boccaccio’s Decameron continues to unnerve and divide scholars. What would inspire, in the middle of the 13th century, a...
Tesla’s Elon Musk can count Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst as a fan
Tesla’s Elon Musk has the right idea, says Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Raleigh-based Red Hat.
Whitehurst, chatting hours after Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) announced a...
Swiss Watchmakers Skeptical of Digital Revolution
GENEVA — A decade ago, Nick Hayek, chief executive of the Swatch Group, and Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, introduced in New York a...
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Party with design on first Thursdays
When you think “high-tech,” what comes to mind? Computers and microchips, sure. But how about art and athletics, robots...
