Surgical Robotics experts at the University of Washington and the University of California, Santa Cruz have completed a set of seven identical advanced robotic surgery robots, called Raven II, designed for medical research laboratories. After final testing, five of the systems will be made available to medical robotics researchers at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, [...]
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Mid last year Google brought a new and improved look to its homepage. Along with its many other products, it updated its homepage with a smaller logo, and links moved to the top and bottom edges, making it look clear and easier to navigate. And after months, Google has started rolling out a re-design, replacing [...]
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Last week between Christmas and New Year saw an groundbreaking record of over one billion app downloads, iOS and Android devices. During this so-called “power week” there were over 20 million devices activation compared to other weeks making it their largest week for device activation, based on an analysis. Flurry, Mobile Application Analytics Firm, detailed [...]
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This week, TED Global brings us Rezero. Rezero is actually a dancing ballbot, a robot that can balance and drive on a single sphere. Péter Fankhauser, Roboticist at the Swiss federal institute of technology in Zurich demonstrates the ballbot, moving freely and even dancing with music on the TED stage. Rezero is the first ballbot [...]
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The chatters around Angry Birds coming to a big screen is real, Angry Birds will soon be a real film.
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Apple has launched its first TV advert for the iPhone 4S. The commercial ad just focuses on Apple’s Voice Recognition Technology Siri integrated on the new iPhone 4S. The advert shows the possible uses of Siri on various applications, by naturally-phrased voice commands. No other technology focus or specifications on the new iPhone 4S can [...]
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Linux Mint Founder and Lead Developer Clement Lefebvre has announced that the upcoming release of Linux Mint will be of the GNOME 3 edition. The Open Source GNU/Linux distro Linux Mint 12 to be due out in November will continue supporting for GNOME 2.32
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At the BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference, Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled a brand new operating system for smartphones and tablets.
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Siri is a virtual personal assistant, voice recognition technology addition to Apple’s new iPhone. It allows you to control everything with your voice. Siri adapts to the user’s individual preferences over time and personalizes results accordingly. Though a highly anticipated Artificial Intelligence integration to iOS, the web is not serious over the application. Along the unveiling of Siri, [...]
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“A whole new world? A whole new computer?” Those are the words at ThisIsTheCountdown.com that adds dose of excitement to the upcoming launch of Ubuntu 11.10 or “Oneiric Ocelot”. We are just days away from the upcoming widely anticipated Ubuntu distribution. “Oneiric Ocelot” is the code name for Ubuntu 11.10, scheduled for release on Oct [...]
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