All Pioneers
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Ada Lovelace: 'The Enchantress of Numbers' (+video)
Ada Lovelace was the visionary half of the team that helped create the modern computer. Lovelace is honored by Google as the 'first computer programmer.'
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Ultrabooks learn to twist, twirl, tilt – and compete
New Ultrabook convertibles take many forms, as manufactures try to figure out what people want.
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With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft finds a middle way
Windows Phone 8 doesn't feel like Apple or Android, though it's borrowed good ideas from both.
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Reddit rises as Web's best conversation
Social news site Reddit offers a warren of links, forums, and perspectives – including an interview with President Obama.
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Ivy walls lower with free online classes from Coursera and edX
More top-notch courses open up to anyone online. Coursera and edX promise virtual equivalents of the real Ivy-league classes.
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Smart phone apps that help you dodge raindrops
iPhone and browser apps create weather reports tailored to you.
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Hologramlike performers hit the stage – and airport, and drugstore
Meet Carla, a new kind of visual aide. Hologramlike projections aren't just for concerts: This one helps travelers.
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Ready for a self-driving car? Check your driveway.
Full self-driving vehicles take to the road in some states, but plenty of older cars already have autonomous features.
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Happy birthday, Mark Zuckerberg. How tech has changed in 28 years.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 on Monday. He was born the same year as Apple's Macintosh computers.
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Gideon Sundback: At first, the world shunned the zipper
Tuesday's Google doodle in honor of Gideon Sundback celebrates his simple yet revolutionary zipper. Too bad his contemporaries didn't see it that way. At first, people shunned the zipper.
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Google honors Gideon Sundback: Father of the zipper (+video)
Gideon Sundback is certainly the inventor of the modern 'zipper.' Except Sundback didn't invent the name.
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Rural tinkerer builds the first airplane made in Afghanistan
Sabir Shah, Afghanistan's 'Wright brother,' constructed an airplane by himself.
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Waterproof your iPhone or Android device with nanocoating (video)
Waterproof gadgets without bulky cases. Companies now offer a nanocoating that wraps devices in an invisible armor 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.
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Lytro cameras: Focus pictures after you take them
Lytro introduces a new 'light field' camera that may change the face of photography.
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Through fireworks, a 'Transient Rainbow' illuminates the night sky
The ‘Transient Rainbow’ firework technique uses 1,000 shells in 15 seconds.
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Trendy threads from waste
Pratibha Syntex could lead in the next textile wave: low-waste, recycled cotton.
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Can Move and Kinect save a sagging video game industry?
A new crop of games, led by PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect, steps up motion-sensing technology.
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The end of the free Internet?
Asking online users to pay for content hasn't worked so far, but iPads and smart phones may change their minds about the free Internet.
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How a computer program became classical music's hot, new composer
'Emily Howell' is a computer program that composes classical music by following rules of music its programmer taught it.
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Climate change as art
From data, delight: An artist pulls her sculpture and music from the climate change numbers in the news.
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