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Wave of wearable gadgets expected at CES event

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Wearable gadgets expected to dominate at CES, but still await mass appeal LAS VEGAS (AP) — Will 2014 be remembered as the year wearable computing took off? Upstart...
    






Where Will The S&P 500 Finish In 2014?

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2013 was a banner year for investors, as the market hit record highs. Both the Dow and S&P 500 finished the year with their largest gains in over a decade, with the latter up an amazing 30%. But...
    






Jeremiah Owyang: Profiting from a Collaborative Economy

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It’s being called the “Sharing Economy,” “Mesh Economy, ”  “Collaborative Consumption,” and now the “Collaborative Economy.” Whatever term prevails, it’s about a more efficient way of using valuable...
    






Turn Your iPhone Into A Robot: Romotive

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When we humans have gazed into the future, more often than not our fantasies and predictions have included robots. Whether we’re watching Bladerunner or The Jetsons, or taking a gander at what...
    






DARPA Is Building A Vanishing Battery: This Post Will Self Destruct In 5 Seconds

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Considering that batteries are typically designed for maximum longevity, it may seem odd to learn that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is ramping up research into self-...
    






3D Printing This Year And Next: A Talk With Brock Hinzmann

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“I’d much rather that people talk about the uses of 3D printing in robotics (such as drones) rather than about issues such as privacy,” says Brock Hinzmann. He is referring to current debate around...
    






Apple Closes 2013 In Grand Fashion With Truly Innovative, Easy-To-Service Mac Pro

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When the cylinder-shaped Mac Pro was announced back in October many scoffed that it was just another glitzy, even odd Apple product, that was no doubt over-priced for what it could potentially...
    






Steam Removes Game ‘Order Of War: Challenge’ From User Libraries

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It was bound to happen sooner or later. Valve’s online gaming distribution website Steam has removed what appears to be the very first game from user libraries. Many games have been removed from the...
    






The New Mac Pro Equipped with a Replaceable Intel Processor

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According to Apple Balla, the recently released latest model of Mac Pro can be upgraded with the future firmware, as a new experiment reveals that it includes a changeable Intel processor.  ...
    






Apple Puts Carl Icahn’s $150 Billion Buyback Proposal To Shareholders

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As we know Carl Icahn has been urging Apple's management and Tim Cook to increase the share buyback and dividend distributions that the company makes. There’s a certain amount of sense to the...