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A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on recognizing if a user is reclining or leaning forward are among the many possible applications of Touché, a new sensing technique.

Two lamps are brighter than one. This simple truism does not necessarily apply to lasers, as a team of scientists found out. When one laser is shining and next to it another laser is turned on gradually, complex interactions between the two lasers can lead to a total shutdown and no light is emitted anymore. For technologies connecting the fields of electronics and photonics, this result may be very important.

A Raspberry Pi enthusiast has managed to get Windows 7 on the cheap Linux computer using Citrix XenDesktop.

According to sources, multiple display manufacturers are working on the new, larger screen.

Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a new function, the Knowledge Graph.

The creative brains imagining a smarter future

In a software project team of 10, there are probably 3 people who produce enough defects to make them net negative producers. - Gordon Schulmeyer

Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia. - Arthur Summerfield, 1959, United States Post