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A computer science engineering team has developed an indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments. The researchers have explained how a combination of human-computer interaction and motion-planning research was used to build a low-cost accessible navigation system, called Navatar, which can run on a standard smartphone.

Powerful supercomputers have shed light on the behavior of key sub-atomic particles, in a development that could help explain why there is almost no anti-matter in our universe. Physicists have reported a landmark calculation of the decay of an elementary particle called a kaon, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. This revealed the first experimental evidence of a phenomenon known as charge-parity (CP) violation - a lack of symmetry between particles and their corresponding antiparticles that may explain why the Universe is made of matter, and not antimatter.

Dell's results were weak across the board in the first quarter as large enterprise, public sector and consumer sales fell. Even Dell's BRIC sales growth was weak.

If analyst estimates about 12 million counterfeit parts identified in the last five years are accurate, that would break down to the report of one counterfeit part every 15 seconds.

Virgin is due to tell a Lord's select committee that rival BT is being subsidised by government cash.

A tie-up between the Olympic Games and Foursquare means users can now "check-in" at past and present Games landmarks.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems. - Jamie Zawinski

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years. - John McAfee, 1988