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Google pointer activity monitoring could influence search engine results, probably won’t

For the latest development in Google’s mad quest for search engine efficacy, the company was granted a patent titled, in the necessarily wordy way that these things are, “System and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring.” Essentially, the idea here is that mouse pointer movements can be interpreted to gauge someone’s interest, [...]

HP cutting 9,000 jobs during billion dollar enterprise services restructuring

HP isn’t being shy about spending cash and taking big steps to reinvent itself lately: it just spent .2b on Palm in order to strengthen its consumer device portfolio, and now it’s announcing another billion-dollar outlay designed to streamline its enterprise services business and fully consolidate its .5b acquisition of EDS. Part of the [...]

South Korea seeks to impose gaming curfew, makes computers ‘edgy’ and ‘cool’ in the process

Seems like China and the UK aren’t the only countries worried about their kid’s computing habits. According to the BBC, the South Korean government is currently mulling over plans to regulate just how much time — and at what time — kids play video games. It seems that a number of services are ready to [...]

DARPA longs for magnetic body healers, crazy respawn camps

Even DARPA understands that its futuristic bubble shield can be penetrated given the right circumstances, and when it does, the soldier behind it is going to need some serious healing. In a hurry. In the entity’s newest budget, there’s .5 million tucked away “for the creation of a scaffold-free tissue engineering platform, which would allow [...]

ScribbleBot Makes You Feel Like You Know How To Draw [Concept]

So you can’t draw. No problem—ScribbleBot can help. I mean, you still won’t have any talent, but you can at least feel like you do for a short period of time.

As you will see in the video, the ScribbleBot is a wireless printing device that follows a pre-set drawing path downloaded from the [...]

Ben Heck throws together one-handed Xbox 360 controller, probably with one hand

Ben Heck. Just the mere mention of the name brings chills to the spines of all who mod, and if today’s the first day you’ve ever come into contact with those seven letters, prepare to be changed. Forever. The Great Modder’s latest gig involved the creation of a one-handed Xbox 360 controller, but the catch [...]

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