11 Weird Things That Caused Major Power Outages (ETN)
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What do turkeys have in common with the space shuttle Endeavor, and seagulls, other than being able to fly? In the past 18 months, they've all caused power outages. So have snakes, squirrels, seagulls, and a criminal fleeing the police. One high profile power outage was even caused by a device
These 12 Startups Prove Angry Birds Isn't The Only Hot Tech Product To Come Out Of Finland
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Report: China Now Has The World's Fastest Supercomputer
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Microsoft Is Making Its Version Of Siri A Faster, Better Listener (MSFT)
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In the quest to make speech recognition tech faster and more accurate, Microsoft researchers traveled inside the human brain, so to speak. Microsoft has built a tech called "deep neural networks" which processes speech in a similar way as the human brain does. Over the past few weeks, it's bee
This Kleiner Perkins VC Says Google Glass Turned Her Into A Super Mom
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Trae Vassallo wants to "dispel the myths" about Google Glass. Vassallo is a Glass owner and a general partner at venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. She was talking about wearable tech on stage today at the Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit. Vassallo often wears Google Glass
Corning Is Working On A Bendable Version Of Its Gorilla Glass (GLW)
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One of the cool new technologies coming soon from the labs at Corning is a type of glass that's so bendable, you'd swear it was plastic. It's called Willow Glass, and it's designed to be used as a touchscreen, or for high-temperature displays, Corning's Dr. Waguih Ishak, a vice presi
EX-NSA DEVELOPER: Hackers Can Take Over Security Cameras To Spy On You
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. security expert says he has identified ways to remotely attack high-end surveillance cameras used by industrial plants, prisons, banks and the military, something that potentially would allow hackers to spy on facilities or gain access to sensitive computer networks. Craig
A Fake Beef Jerky Kickstarter Campaign Almost Got Away With Taking $120,000
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Popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter just shut down a fake campaign for beefy jerky. Over $120,000 was raised before Kickstarter froze the funds. The "company responsible" — Magnus Fun Inc. — has since deleted its account, but it managed to pull the wool over the eyes of 3,300 supporter
