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Severed from Nokia, Ex-Employees Launch Bifurcated Smartphone
Jolla Mobile, formed by Nokia refugees, launches a phone with interchangable back-panels and the Sailfish OS
Second Life Founder’s New Virtual World Uses Body Tracking Hardware
Hardware that tracks your head, eyes and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different to the pioneering virtual world.
Exxon Takes Algae Fuel Back to the Drawing Board
A $300 million project seems to have failed to produce a cheap way to make fuel from algae.
One-Time Pad Reinvented To Make Electronic Copying Impossible
The ability to copy electronic code makes one-time pads vulnerable to hackers. Now engineers have found a way round this to create a system of cryptography that is invulnerable to electronic attack
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Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 18 May 2013)
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
From Our Archive: Wearable Computing, Long Before Google Glass
What was it like to use a wearable computer back in 1999?
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The Impending Headache of Google Glass Apps
Glass apps will require people to create new content filters. Maybe that’s just a losing battle.
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The Latest Hardware Hacking Tool: A Machine that Carves Custom Circuit Boards
Otherfab’s Kickstarter project offers an easy way to make custom circuit boards at home.
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Building Solar in Spain Instead of Germany Could Save Billions
Building solar and wind projects in the wrong place is wasting billions of dollars in Europe.
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