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Yahoo’s Weather App Has No “Cool” Interactions–And That’s Amazing
It’s pretty, yes. But more importantly, it doesn’t force you to interact with it.
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Think Gestural Interactions Suck? Design Your Own
Creating your own gestural patterns could make these interactions easier to remember, researchers say.
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Another Thin-Film Solar Casualty?
Niche provider SoloPower, which received state aid, is seeking an investor to keep operating.
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Two Ways to Fix the Typing-on-Touch-Screens Problem
One solution to the typing-on-a-screen problem asks us to change our behavior; the other changes its behavior to fit us.
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Why Tech Companies May Really Want All Those Extra Visas
The shortage of workers in the IT industry may be overblown, a new study claims.
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Bird Flu: On the Move and Hard to Track
The H7N9 virus is deadly to humans but does not present symptoms in birds, which makes it more difficult to control.
Google Trends Could Predict Stock Market Moves, Study Shows
A paper found that trading based on search query volumes for the term “debt” could yield large returns.
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Physicists Build World’s First “Magnetic Hose” For Transmitting Magnetic Fields
Magnetic fields decay rapidly and so have never been transmitted over long distances. Until now …
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Keyboard App Swype Could Soon Offer Slang That Varies by City
Keyboard app Swype could soon get hyper-local dialects that automatically change depending on which city you are in.