Julia Barton
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Snail mail gets interactive
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Julia Barton
Sep 7, 2010
British stamp enthusiasts should be lining up with their smart phones at Royal Mail post offices by now. The nearly 500-year-old Royal Mail is the...
Want users to tell all??? Have an ugly site.
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Julia Barton
Sep 3, 2010
The scuzzier-looking the site, the more users may reveal about themselves. That's the finding of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. They...
Listen to my iHeartbeat...
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Julia Barton
Sep 1, 2010
iPhone's all over hearts these days. First, we had the iPhone Heart Monitor app for exercise buffs (sweating optional). Then the news that Apple...
No more paper OED
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Julia Barton
Aug 31, 2010
The days of the150-lb, 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary are numbered. This week, Oxford University Press announced it's just too expensive to...
Play tech's Great Game
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Julia Barton
Aug 31, 2010
So we read lots and lots of tech headlines at this show. Facebook's after Foursquare's market; Apple's after Microsoft; Google's after everyone&...
Spray-on batteries grown by...viruses?
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Julia Barton
Aug 27, 2010
The American Chemical Society just wrapped up its national meeting in Boston, and among the presentations, a lot of interesting work on batteries...
Mystery Russian shortwave signal comes to life
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Julia Barton
Aug 26, 2010
The blogosphere—well, OK, a select subsection—is abuzz about "The Buzzer," the nickname for a mysterious Russian shortwave signal that...
E-cigarettes headed to court
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Julia Barton
Aug 25, 2010
A federal appellate court in Washington DC will consider the fate of so-called e-cigarettes next month. E-cigarettes use batteries to turn nicotine...