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Designers here gathered to examine whether browser mania is just the latest form of "reinventing the wheel," arguing that typographers have spent centuries successfully honing the art of readability. Why add yet another meta-layer of color-coordinated symbols and rotating orbs that first need to be studied before being put into use?
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It's an architecture that comes with a variety of names: vernacular, transient, tensile, liquid, primitive, nomadic. It doesn't have to mean that a building is transportable, only that it can be moved in meaningful, and preferably reversible, ways.
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The scam has existed for years in various forms, but in the 1990s it moved online, where it is cheaper to organize and harder to trace.
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A suspected Islamic extremist of Dutch-Moroccan descent was arraigned in Amsterdam on charges of murder and terrorism today, accused of killing a director whose film denounced the mistreatment of women in Islamic communities.
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Despite humans' big brains and seemingly infinite storage space, when we think back to an old memory it's usually not hi-res video we conjure up but rather a still image, fuzzy around the edges and hard to keep in place.
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Now a team of researchers in the Netherlands have developed a computer system that quickly examines hundreds of paintings for telltale patterns. The results, they say, can lend credence to existing attributions or help dismiss them.
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High-definition television may be only just beginning to catch on, but researchers at the Japanese national broadcaster NHK are already working on a successor. The format, called Ultra High Definition Video, or UHDV, has a resolution 16 times greater than plain-old HDTV, and its stated goal is to achieve a level of sensory immersion that approximates actually being there.
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Collecting the garbage becomes a one-man operation: the truck pulls up, attaches a cable to the container, lifts it up, turns it over, and puts it back into the ground, an eight-minute process that also does away with mistossed bags splattering in the street.
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Focusing your camera phone on a code and then clicking any button launches a wireless service -- for example, the ability to buy a train ticket, check an airplane's departure time, or download a ring tone from a store display.
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The history of grandiloquent architecture is a long and rich one, and Berlin-based artists Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani explored this history in Amsterdam’s ‘South Axis’ development project, a playground of gleaming office towers with interchangeable names like Eurocenter, Forum and Atrium...
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The boycott suggested that Epson ink cartridges prematurely block printers from churning out more pages even when there is enough ink to keep going.
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With Internet access becoming a necessity for many travelers, typing e-mail on a stained keyboard in a local cybercafe has lost its charm.
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Though it all sounds very Dr. Dolittle, the sounds that many animal species make can be analyzed and identified using many of the same techniques that have allowed human voice recognition to make the leap from high-tech novelty to valuable application.
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Participants in the Scrapyard Challenge make simple electronic controllers using found materials like computer parts, household appliances, turntables, monitors, gadgets and clothing, which also shows how easy it is to re-use technology to serve a new purpose.
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By mixing found footage with her own, and without always announcing which is which, Tan nimbly mimics the workings of memory itself. Is the image in my mind’s eye indeed my own recollection, or was it planted by family photos or grandparents’ anecdotes or TV or a dream?
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