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Bill Gates is currently focusing on his philanthropic work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but he continues to believe that technology plays a crucial role in all aspects of society.
The video embedded above features the Microsoft co-founder talking at the University of Washington about the future and... |
29 October 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Every once in a while Microsoft reveals just how far into the future it’s looking in terms of the evolution of technology.
Case in point: the new Productivity Future Vision (2011) video that the software giant just shared with the world.
Users should not take the video for an accurate forecast, because that&... |
27 October 2011
10:27 GMT |
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As time passes, it becomes increasingly clear that fossil fuels will no longer be able to cut it in terms of servicing our power needs without destroying Earth. Experts say that hydrogen, the most abundant substance in the Universe, is the chemical of the future. Electricity coming from alternative sources is current... |
1 November 2010
11:50 GMT |
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Electrolux, the renowned Swedish home appliance manufacturer, proposes a new concept for the kitchens of the future. The company is an advocate of innovation in this field, and has recently showcased its new approach at the Stockholm international meeting of designers DesignBoost. The Swedish are basically saying tha... |
24 February 2010
08:48 GMT |
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One of the ever-diminishing set of traits that are believed to be uniquely human is called chronesthesia. The concept refers to the ability each of us has of traveling through time subjectively, inside our own heads. This is something that has not yet been proven in any other animal, though admittedly devising an exp... |
30 January 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Notions such as the past, the present and the future have fascinated philosophers for a very long time through their mysterious nature. But they have also captivated the imagination of scientists, who also attempt to decipher their meaning. A recent such explanation holds that, by combining Einstein's relative p... |
9 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), formerly the Patent Office, is, let's say, a peculiar organization. Recently, it became fond of the idea of constructing a space capsule, to be opened no sooner than 2020. For its enterprise, the IPO asked about 85,000 children and young inventors to set their ideas on pap... |
8 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is a huge phenomenon, as the MMORPG is the biggest in the whole world, boasting over 11 million paying subscribers each month. This dedicated fan base is extremely interested in all things related to the game, which made the developer, Blizzard, very careful with what it releases in regard to the pr... |
21 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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It is highly likely for teens who believe that they will die young to engage in risky behavior, a new research by experts at the University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS) has found. The investigation, which was led by researcher Iris Borowsky, MD, PhD, comes to show that about one in seven teenagers feels like th... |
29 June 2009
04:14 GMT |
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One of the most recurring aspects of science-fiction movies is the fact that they all feature a future in which human kind is either living in an Utopian dream, or has to live at least in a world that has learned to completely renounce war. As an example, the Star Trek series, both the original and the spin-offs, dep... |
12 May 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Every single parent out there knows that toddlers have their own way of interpreting things, and that they seem to be paying little attention to what they are told. Their behavior may have given birth to the idea that words enter their head through one year and get out immediately through the other one. Now, new scie... |
25 March 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Everything is crystal clear for a while now: the future of video games will be in the hands of three or four huge game developers created from mergers and buy-outs (and tender/hostile takeovers, probably). One of the latest companies that seems to have understood that is Square Enix which, ironically, was formed as a... |
20 May 2008
04:00 GMT |
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The future is Microsoft-centric as far as the Redmond company is concerned. At this point in time, Microsoft effectively imagines its technology as an indispensable ingredient in the recipe of aspects that will build your mundane life. The increased dependency on technology is a tendency that will only gather up mome... |
17 March 2008
08:25 GMT |
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EA is a behemoth. Until being pushed to second spot by new Activision Blizzard they were the biggest games company in the world. EA is the company that has recently offered 2 billion dollars for Take Two and that publishes some of the longest running game series in the world. And let's not forget it's one o... |
28 February 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Ever wondered why so many great movies of the past are rarely now on television? Why you never see Oscar features from the '50s or '60s anywhere? Mostly, it's because of the bad technical shape in which those movies are. Up until digital technology became available, movies tended to lose quality rather... |
28 February 2008
03:44 GMT |
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Rating is all the latest buzz when it comes to Internet reviewing. You choose a movie or a book, or even a service based on how many stars other people that have already viewed / read / used it have awarded. It's sort of like blending into the crowd and losing your personality when taking other people you don&#... |
19 February 2008
13:11 GMT |
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Watching "Back into the Future", the movie that somehow changed my childhood's normal path, has had me searching for stories like this. Digital Inspiration has noticed a little something and has let the world know that you can send email and text messages to yourself in the future. The means to do it is to simpl... |
4 January 2008
07:36 GMT |
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The question was "So what really is different now?" and it was asked to Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, by Steve Lohr from the NYTimes. The feeling that there's an acceleration in the pace of life and in lifestyle as a whole is circling everyone I've talked to on the matter, and it seems that o... |
18 December 2007
13:31 GMT |
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A recent press release floating around the Internet says that the UK's leading games media company, has just appointed Jon Hicks as Editor of Xbox 360: The Official Magazine, also known as simply OXM. According to the same report, the guy currently editing Future's spin-off Microsoft computing projects has ... |
15 October 2007
05:25 GMT |
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Bigmouthmedia conducted a new research in the UK revealing that most of the residents of the country think that Google will remain the leader of the Internet search engine competition for at least five years from now. The survey included 1.101 persons, 551 men and 550 women, all from UK. According to bigmouthmedia, 5... |
26 July 2007
05:06 GMT |
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When it comes to robots, so far, Japan rules. They're a few generations ahead of the Americans and a century ahead of any other competitor in the field. Sony's AIBO was the first robot dog to recognize words and objects, and Honda's ASIMO is the first humanoid robot that can walk on two feet in a mann... |
22 June 2007
11:17 GMT |
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Are you getting tired of the same old view when you look out the windows of your apartment, or you just feel the need for a change in your life? No problem!Soon, with the push of a button you will be able to rotate your entire floor so that your apartment will get on another side of the building. This could be very ... |
23 May 2007
11:37 GMT |
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Leading online games publisher NCsoft Europe has joined forces with Future, the leading publisher of games magazines and websites, for an exclusive cover disc promotion, in an attempt to simultaneously offer trial versions of all three of its Guild Wars online role-playing titles, with a different trial appearing on ... |
18 May 2007
09:20 GMT |
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