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Intel wants to be your new cable provider

Intel wants to create a virtual cable service that would bundle TV channels for subscribers. But cable providers are expected to put up a fight.

By Lucas Mearian | 14 June, 2013 14:55

Tags: Apple, Gartner, BBC, consumer electronics, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems, Personal Technology, intel
Look out, Google Fiber – scientists build 400G connection

A research team led by Bell Labs' Xiang Liu has published an article in Nature describing a way to send and receive information at 400 gigabits per second across 12,800km of optical fiber – an enormous potential gain of both speed and effective distance compared to current technology.

By Jon Gold | 29 May, 2013 20:19

Tags: BBC, Networking, wireless, LAN & WAN, Telecommunications
It works! First 3D-printed gun test fired

The company producing a 3D-printable gun today test fired it successfully, demonstrating the viability of the technology that would allow anyone with a printer and special resin toner to make their own weapons.

By Lucas Mearian | 06 May, 2013 17:12

Tags: BBC, consumer electronics, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems, Defense Distributed, Personal Technology, youtube
Google's Schmidt admits talking to Glass is 'weird,' 'inappropriate'

Google's executive chairman acknowledged yesterday that using Glass, the company's computerized eyeglasses, can be at times a bit 'weird' and 'inappropriate.'

By Sharon Gaudin | 26 April, 2013 17:17

Tags: harvard university, hardware, BBC, Reuters, Google, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems, internet
Schmidt says Google Glass still a year away

Google's Eric Schmidt said the company's wearable computer, Glass, is about a year from reaching the market.

By Sharon Gaudin | 22 April, 2013 22:16

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, BBC, Google, Emerging Technologies, security, hardware systems, social media, internet, privacy