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Find a Parking Space Online: By Kristina Grifantini | 07/24/2008 | 0 Comments; Street-embedded sensors monitor parking availability.

Redesigning Facebook: By Erica Naone | 07/22/2008 | 0 Comments; A new look changes the game for third-party developers.

A New Competitor to LCD: By Prachi Patel-Predd | 07/21/2008 | 11 Comments; A novel pixel design promises to be faster and brighter.

Google Gets Into Virtual Worlds: By Brian White | 07/18/2008 | 3 Comments; The search giant's Lively software appears to be aimed at novice users.

Opening Up Microblogging: By Erica Naone | 07/17/2008 | 0 Comments; A newly launched company called Identi.ca is taking advantage of an open-source platform to challenge Twitter.

Quantum Leap: By Lauren Rugani | 07/17/2008 | 0 Comments; Researchers have controlled the position of a single electron in a silicon circuit.

Pushing Pixels: By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 07/16/2008 | 5 Comments; Kodak brings digital cameras into the 50-megapixel range.

The Virtual World as Web Browser: By Erica Naone | 07/15/2008 | 0 Comments; Linden Lab is working on making it easier to import data from the Web into Second Life.

Finding Water on the Moon: By Brittany Sauser | 07/15/2008 | 1 Comment; An advanced type of mass spectrometry has detected water in lunar particles.

Making a Modern 3-D Movie: By Kate Greene | 07/11/2008 | 0 Comments; Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D shows off Hollywood's most advanced technology.

A Patch to Fix the Net: By Erica Naone | 07/10/2008 | 4 Comments; A major flaw in the design of the Internet is being repaired by a large group of vendors.

A Picowatt Processor: By Kate Greene | 07/08/2008 | 10 Comments; A low-power chip could be used for implantable medical sensors.

Digging a Smarter Crowd: By Erica Naone | 07/08/2008 | 2 Comments; Digg's new recommendation system relies on the wisdom of crowds.

More-Searchable Flash: By Kate Greene | 07/03/2008 | 0 Comments; Information from millions of Web pages that use the animation software is now available to search engines.

Penguin-Recognition Software: By Lissa Harris | 07/01/2008 | 0 Comments; Remote cameras and software could be a boon to threatened-species monitoring.

A Robot That Learns to Use Tools: By Kristina Grifantini | 07/01/2008 | 0 Comments; By shoving objects around on a table, UMan figures out how they work.

Search Engines' Chinese Self-Censorship: By Erica Naone | 06/30/2008 | 3 Comments; U.S.-based search engines are choosing what they censor in China and could be blocking more than they have to.

A Record-Breaking Optical Chip: By Kate Greene | 06/25/2008 | 4 Comments; Intel researchers have built a superfast silicon chip for optical networking.

Faster Optical Switching: By Karen Fox | 06/24/2008 | 2 Comments; Virtual particles called excitons could speed data through telecom networks.

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The Future of the Web: By Kristina Grifantini | 6 Comments; We asked technology innovators, luminaries, and users what the Web might be in five to ten years.

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Infotech Videos

An Easier Upgrade to Holographic Storage
Friday, October 10, 2008
Watch Brian Lawrence, manager of GE’s Integrated Polymer Systems Lab, in Niskayuna, NY, discuss the history of recording media. He also explains how holographic storage discs are made and how data is written to them.
(7min 48sec)

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