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FDA finally approves a new, high-tech type of prosthetic arm

After years of testing, the FDA today approved a new type of prosthetic arm that its makers claim will bring a whole new level of control to amputees. Known as the "Luke"...

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NASA's new spacesuit looks like something from Tron

As engineers and scientists work hard to build technologies that astronauts could one day use to live and work on Mars, the future of spacesuits is looking stylish too. Or...

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IBM unveils $1 billion investment in cloud software development

IBM revealed a more than $1 billion cloud platform-as-a-service investment on Monday, opening its middleware to the cloud for the first time and bolstering the connectivity of enterprise applications and data...

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Scott Hassan shuts down robotics research pioneer Willow Garage

Rumors of Willow Garage's death may have been very premature, but they've come true all the same. Businessweek reports that company founder Scott Hassan shut down the robotics research pioneer in January to become...

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Flaw in the Tinder app allows users to pinpoint your exact location

Tinder users could have had their near-exact location revealed for more than two months last year while a flaw in the app remained unfixed. The flaw, which has since been...

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How Airbus engineers are debugging the A350-XWB

Airbus has long been in a neck-and-neck race with Boeing for the lead in the airplane market. The company is making a big bet with the A350, a plane built...

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Amazon could be getting a union

Amazon is the future of retail in America. Like its biggest competitors, it is not unionized. But that could change soon. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has...

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Twitter is reportedly testing out profile pages

Twitter is reportedly experimenting with expanded redesigns of user profiles which will allow users to do things such as highlight certain content over others, like their most popular tweets. As is, Twitter...

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Jeff Bezos, brilliant evil company mastermind?

Nobody would say that Amazon Jeff Bezos hasn't been successful, but is he a challenge to have as a boss? Amazon can be a uniquely challenging place to work, with...

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HTC brings fingerprint scanners to their smartphones

Move over, Apple. HTC is coming. Okay, so they probably aren't worried about HTC. Heck, HTC is probably not worried about HTC. Still, the technology is spreading as everyone knew...

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