Your next car’s backup camera could detect moving and stationary hazards

  Your next car’s backup camera could automatically warn you of hazards: children or pets behind the car, other vehicles, even walls or dumpsters you might not see, especially in…

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News Digest October 14, 2012

Report: Big Data Needs Broad Strategies for Public Sector Adoption Division of Big Data Commission organization TechAmerica Foundation released a report “Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide To Transforming The…

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GR Pick: Fan Video Combines Legend of Zelda with Game of Thrones

A fanmade video meshes the family-friendly world of The Legend of Zelda with the harsh world of Game of Thrones, resulting in a spectacular live-action video. It’s not everyday a fan-made…

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Intel’s new low-cost Apollo Lake platform: Skylake graphics, new Goldmont CPU

Last week, Intel announced its new Apollo Lake low-cost series of Pentium, Celeron, and Atom products due to launch in the back half of 2016. Goldmont, the CPU core that…

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The CIA is very interested in your tweets and Instagram photos

Soft robots that can grasp delicate objects, computer algorithms designed to spot an “insider threat,” and artificial intelligence that will sift through large data sets — these are just a few of the technologies…

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Kabul hit by deadly explosion as Taliban begins spring offensive

Car bomb in Afghan capital has left at least 28 dead and more than 320 injured At least 28 people were killed and more than 320 injured after a Taliban…

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Hadoop – The Tape Killer

With the price of commodity hardware continuing to motion downward, it continues to surprise me when I talk to organizations that still offload their historical data to tape offline and…

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New PS4 Model Codenamed ‘NEO’; Features Faster CPU, More RAM

After rumors that Sony is making an upgraded version of the PlayStation 4, multiple sources have confirmed that a new PlayStation 4 console is indeed coming soon. The gaming world was thrown into…

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Activision Reveals New Ghostbusters Game

Activision announces a new Ghostbusters game which will release alongside the new movie, but it’s probably not exactly what most people were hoping for. If the new Ghostbusters movie has…

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Fossil fuels could be phased out worldwide in a decade, says new study

The worldwide reliance on burning fossil fuels to create energy could be phased out in a decade, according to an article published by a major energy think tank in the…

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