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Millennial: tablets account for 20% of mobile ad impressions, Android has 49% share
Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media this morning released its ‘Mobile Mix’ report covering its findings for the first quarter of this year. The report looks at trends in ad impressions across mobile devices and operating systems.
The mobi...
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Researchers Turn Bubbles Into Laser-Controlled Microrobots [Video]





Of all the exotic space-age materials you can use to build a robot, we never thought bubbles would be a viable option. But researchers at the University of Hawaii have done just that with a microscopic ro...
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You Did What? Idiots Teach Robots How To Build Their Own Tools [Video]





Well, this is just fantastic. We're all for the advancement of robot technology so that one day they can cater to our every beck and call. But researchers at ETH Zurich have foolishly designed a robot tha...
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Is Cilantro Hating Genetic? [Science]





There are a small, but vehement, group of people that hate cilantro with a passion. But it turns out that they might not be fussy; instead, they might just be unlucky enough to be beneficiaries of a curiou...
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Nasa Wants To Snatch Asteroids With a Spiderman-Inspired Spiny Claw [Video]





Marvel's web-slinger is able to scale tall buildings thanks to a set of spiny hairs on his fingers. And NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the same approach could make it easy for spacecraft to latch...
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This Insanely Talented One-Armed Juggling Robot Is the Future of Busking [Video]





In today's tough economic climate even industrial robots are having a hard time finding work. So it's nice to see that researchers at Chiba University in Japan have successfully taught a robot arm how to ...
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Can Siri Find a Cure for Cancer? [Video]





Can Siri help you find a cure for cancer? As it stands, this is a bit beyond the skills of the talking virtual assistant on Apple's iPhone. But British Telecom is putting her through a kind of biomedical t...
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Party-Pooping Scientists Want To Make Air Shows Less Awesome With Jet Engine-Quieting Sponges [Science]





Dammit science. For all the good you do, you can be a real Debbie Downer sometimes. We like it when you cure diseases and invent awesome new materials like silicene, but when you take away the mighty roar ...
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Researcher Killed By Deadly Bacteria He Was Working With [Science]





A young researcher from San Francisco has died after being infected by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease he was studying—and there are fears that it could spread. More »...
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Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie)

According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is anticipating getting approval from government regulators to officially distribute its S-1 public offering prospectus to investors within days, which would mean its road show could begin as early as...
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Homophobia Is Totally Gay, As Proven By Science [Science]





It's long been theorized that many hardcore, anti-gay homophobics are often repressed homosexuals themselves. There certainly has been a lot of anecdotal evidence from notable political figures to support ...
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Hate Itchy Mosquito Bites? Building Up an Immunity Only Requires About 15,000 Bites Per Year [Video]





Meet Steve Schutz. Some might say he's very dedicated to his work. But others would call him downright crazy. You see Steve works in an insectarium, a place where mosquitos are born and raised. And to ens...
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Why Everybody's Wrong About the G-Spot [Sex]





The female G-spot is a much-discussed phenomenon. For every anecdotal report of its existence, there's a denier. Sadly, for once science doesn't really seem to help settle the matter either, with plenty of...
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Cleantech Businesses Remain Bullish Despite Media Perception
 
As media perception of clean technology sectors has hit the wall hard, a study from accounting and taxation company Grant Thornton suggests the future of clean technology and renewable energy remains bullish.
The 2012 report, entitled “Capturing Op...
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Say It Loud: ATD Relaunches the "Voices" Section

One of the least-changed parts of AllThingsD since we started this site has been our “Voices” section, even though it also has attracted robust and ever-increasing traffic over the years.
That’s about to change today, as we relaunch an ...
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The World's Most High-Tech Blanket Could One Day Be Used For Easy 3D Modeling [Research]





It might not look like the traditional quilt your grandmother made for you, but that's because the IM Blanky is embroidered with sensors, resistors, and conductive fabrics making it self-aware. So it knows...
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Fish and Wind Farms Living in Harmony (Marine Life Thriving!)
 
Fish are living happy and content lives — in fact they are thriving — in and around one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms in Denmark, according to a new report from the National Institute of Aquatic Resources in Denmark.
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Cleantech Venture Deals Up, Dollars Down (Q1 2012)
 
Cleantech Group’s most recent statistics of cleantech investment show that less money (19% less than Q4 2012 and 31% less than Q1 2011) was invested across more deals in Q1 2012. Here’s are more details on Cleantech Group’s recent...
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Exclusive: Yahoo's Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving has turned in his resignation and it has been accepted by the company.
The process for Irving’s departure is a bit more formal since he is a top officer a...
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Scientists Can Now Make Solar Cells Thinner Than Spider Silk [Science]





Not long ago, solar cells were all huge, heavy, stiff devices. Recently that's been changing—and the latest development is a new breed of cells which are thinner than spider silk and can even be wrap...
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Yahoo's Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s massive round of layoffs — which is likely to impact up to 2,000 employees — is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg that will hit the storied Silicon Valley Internet giant in the m...
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To Ace an Interview, Forget Being Liked: You Just Need to Love Yourself [Psychology]





While self-confidence is definitely a route to job interview success, it's often suggested that outright arrogance and narcissism is a real turn-off for employers. But a new study suggests that's not the ...
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Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After

Yahoo is preparing to begin layoffs of what could be thousands of employees starting next week, according to multiple sources, and is then expected to announce a new restructuring of the company the week after.
The swirl at the Silicon Valley Internet gi...
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Improving Thermoelectric Devices Takes Next Step
 
Scientists have long been looking for a way to improve our ability to utilize thermoelectric reactions. Researchers looking for just such an improvement believe they have discovered a liquid-like compound whose properties mean that it could be more...
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Vibrating Steering Wheels Could Provide Distraction-Free Directions [GPS]





In an attempt to reduce the number of accidents caused by in-car distractions, AT&T Labs, working with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, have created a vibrating steering wheel that provides navig...
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A Mouse Made Just For You Will Be Your Medical Avatar [Science]





When you check in to a hospital in the future, along with checking your vitals and ordering a blood panel, your doctors may assign you a personal mouse. The immune-deficient creature will receive a transpl...
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Is CO2 Making You Fat? [Health]





There's a never-ending stream of scientific explanations for obesity. The latest suggests that CO2 contributes to our weight gain and that as we pump more of it in to the atmosphere, the fatter we become. ...
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Lithium-Ion Battery Market to Grow 700% by 2017, New Report Finds
  Pike Research has just come out with a new market research report, “Electric Vehicle Batteries.” The report, which ranks what it thinks are the top 10 Lithium-ion battery companies, finds that market revenue for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) bat...
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls "Puzzling" (Including Filing)

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
The attack by the Silicon Valley Internet icon against perhaps the most powerful consumer social networkin...
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White Roofs Cool the Heck out of NYC Apartments
  The last time I wrote on white roofs, the finding was that they could actually cause a net cooling. But the study didn’t take into account how much the cooling of the buildings reduced electricity demand. Looks like those electricity savings ...
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Future Airplanes Could Get Power from Themselves
  Think about this: when airplanes land, there is some pretty serious energy lost as the plane brakes and slows down. We already have electric vehicles, trains, buses, shipping trucks, garbage trucks, and more saving energy from such braking and usin...
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IBM’s Holey Optochip Pumps 1 Trillion Bits per Second [Guts]





IBM Researchers have built an optical chip that can transfer more data per second than pretty much anything else on the planet. More »



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Juniper Research: We’ll watch 3 hours of TV per month on our tablets by 2014
Research firm Juniper Research released a report on mobile television this morning, forecasting that we’ll soon be watching more than 3 hours of TV per month on our tablets. Raise your hand if you already clock that on a daily basis!
Zooming in on t...
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Microsoft-commissioned IDC study says cloud computing will create 14 million new jobs by 2015
The future for cloud service providers is very bright, at least if a new report (PDF) from research firm IDC is to be believed.
Commissioned by software giant Microsoft (which obviously also offers a range of cloud solutions), the study claims spending o...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Labs Head Raghavan Departing to Google

Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo’s well-respected head of its Labs unit and also recently its head of strategy, is leaving the company to take a job at Google.
The departure comes ahead of possibly deep cuts in his division, which is in charge of long-te...
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Microsoft's Crazy New Interface Designs Could Actually Be Useful [Video]





I'm a bit of a sucker for concept interface designs: I love how they show off the massive capabilities of new technology without any obvious current practical use. But these new offerings from Microsoft c...
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Facebook Reveals Fellowship Program Winners, Finalists
Facebook announced the 12 winners and 30 finalists of its fellowship program, which supports PhD students working on research in the areas of social web and technology.
Topics of research included, but were not limited to, data storage, mobile computing, ...
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The Spray-On Antenna That Boosts Reception Using Zero Power [Video]





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NREL & Gamesa Working on Next-Generation Wind Turbines for U.S. Market
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently announced that it and Gamesa Technology Corp., one of the world’s leading wind turbine companies, are planning to “study and test a variety of components and ...
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Future Earbuds Won't Care If You Mix Up Left and Right [Headphones]





One day you might not have to worry about sticking your left and right earbuds in the correct ears. Because researchers have created a clever system that automatically adjusts the stereo mix depending on w...
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Foot Recognition Is the New Face Recognition [Video]





The problem with a multi-user tabletop computer is that it's difficult for the software to keep track of who's using it. Unless you strap a Kinect sensor to the underside that lets it make note of their f...
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The Best Used Car is the Toyota Prius
There are many reasons to buy a hybrid—great mileage and low emissions being just a couple of them. Reliability is quickly turning out to be another really good one, at least for the Toyota Prius.
Toyota Prius Declared Most Reliable Used Car (via Ga...
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Nissan’s Leaf Tapped to Make eNV200 — an Electric Commerical Van
Ever wanted a commercial van designed like a Nissan Leaf? Of course you have! So, check this out:
Leaf + Van = eNV200 – Zero Emissions When Hauling Stuff (via Gas 2.0)
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Visualizing citations in research literature
From Autodesk Research, Citeology is an interactive that visualizes connections in academic research via paper citations:
The names of each of the 3,502 papers published at the CHI and UIST Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences between 1982 and 201...
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Charging for Charging: Saitama, Japan Tests EV Infrastructure
EV infrastructure experiments and pilot programs are popping up all over – this week’s new program is taking place in Saitama City, Japan. A number of companies, including NTT Data, NEC, and Hitachi are banding together at the behest of the Ministry of La...
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Caltech Shatters Internet Speed Record: 186 Gbps [Video]





As if I couldn't hate my ISP any more, researchers at the SuperComputing 2011 conference set a new internet speed record transferring data with a combined rate of 186 Gbps, 67 Gbps faster than the previou...
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Unbelievable Trillion Frames Per Second Camera Captures Light in Motion [Video]





That fancy high-speed Phantom camera is pretty much a child's toy when compared to MIT's new hardware which can record at 1,000,000,000,000 frames per second. Fast enough to capture slow motion footage of...
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WIN!: Completely Relevant News: Cancer Research WIN



This is Angela Zhang, a Californian student who just won $100,000 in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her contribution to the competition? Nothing big, just discovering a cell that can fight cancer. Oh sorry, I meant developed...
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Inside This Giant Metal Sphere Lives a Miniature Version of the Earth's Spinning Core [Video]





So how do you study the Earth's core and magnetic fields when it's protected by 1,800 miles of crust? Easy—you just build your own miniature version in a laboratory, using over 28,000 pounds of molte...
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Bridgestone's Airless Tires Look Even Better In Motion [Video]





Not only do the curved resin spokes of Bridgestone's new Air-Free tires mean you may never have to change a flat again, they also serve as rolling eye candy, and the sleekest upgrade to tires since white ...
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