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Google Unveils Real Time Search, Translation, Image Searching, Goggles...Awkwardly

Google called a high-profile press conference today, and used it to unveil not one big feature, but a number of current and future tweaks to its service. The list was impressive, so we've rounded up some of the cleverest tech for you.READ»

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Beer Brewed From Spaceflight Barley--Now Available at the Mos Eisley Cantina?

Sapporo breweries is selling Space Barley, the World's first beer made from barley that's been on a trip into outer space. Let's come up with a better name for it, shall we?READ»

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Amputee Gets Real-Feeling, Thought-Powered Cybernetic Fingers

What if you could wire up your nervous system to a robotic hand so well that it actually felt like your own? Would you be a real-life cyborg or Six Million Dollar Man? Yup. It's not only the future of prosthetic limbs. It's the ...READ»

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Dark-Sided DARPA Dangles $40k for Crowdsourced Balloon Hunt

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has long been shrouded in mists made of equal measures of awe, mystery, controversy, and spying. Now it's strolling out of those clouds, jauntily singing a 1980s pop ditty by Nena. 99 ...READ»

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Intel's Mind-Reading Chips: Replace Your Mouse With Your Brain

You know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control computers with your ...READ»

mirasol

Watch Out Apple, Amazon: Qualcomm's E-Reader Will Play Color Video

E-readers may or may not emerge as the must-have gadget of 2010, but nearly all the devices out now have a problem--their screens only do gray scale, and move too slowly for video. But Qualcomm's got an answer for that. Mirasol, a ...READ»

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Is the Atmosphere Simpler Than We Thought?

The "butterfly effect" is being set aside in favor of a multifractal process that will have a major impact on climate models.READ»

space elevator
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The Next Space Race: Elevator Rides Into Orbit

Remember how the Ansari X-Prize resulted in the nascent commercial space trip business, with Virgin Galactic in the lead? Now there's a similar push to innovate space technology, but of a different sort: Space elevators, making the ...READ»

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Soros Invests $1 Billion in Clean Energy as New Study Fuels Global Warming Skepticism

George Soros is going to put a billion dollars of his business fortune into clean energy. But will the cash go to change the political attitude toward global warming or is it offset by recent figures that seem to suggest evidence of ...READ»

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Obama, the Future-Friendly President, Wins Nobel Peace Prize

This morning the World had a bit of a surprise: The Nobel Prize Committee announced its choice for the Peace Prize as President Barack Obama (the subject of Fast Company's April 2008 cover story, "The Brand Called Obama"). Few people ...READ»

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