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The millions of "check-ins" generated by Foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynamic view of a city's workings and character, researchers say. In contrast to static neighborhood boundaries and dated census figures, these "Livehoods" reflect the ever-changing patterns of city life.

Physicists have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits) -- 10 times more than previous devices. The simulator has passed a series of important benchmarking tests and scientists are poised to study problems in material science that are impossible to model on conventional computers.

Can anyone turn around HP or is it all looking a bit like too little too late?

Quest Software could give Dell the software boost it needs to diversify away from PCs.

Jonathan Ive says he is "fortunate" to be Apple's chief designer

The pioneers shaking up the country's tech industry

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