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How To Build A Black Hole Laser
You can amplify light by bouncing it between the horizons of a black hole and a white hole. Now physicists have worked out how to build such a device in the lab
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Life’s Trajectory Seen Through Facebook Data
Data donated by Facebook users to Stephen Wolfram yields interesting patterns that may reveal how people change over time.
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How Particle Physics Is Improving Recommendation Engines
The same physics that governs the behaviour of photons and electrons may also improve online shopping recommendations, say researchers
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Chinese Physicists Build “Ghost” Cloaking Device
A working invisibility cloak that makes one object look like ghostly versions of another has been built in China
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A Surprisingly Long List of Everything Smartphones Replaced
Hundreds of dollars and as many pounds of goods supplanted, thanks to a single device.
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Five Technologies to Watch in 2013
With big developments in 2012, these five stories are still unfolding.
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Microphone Turns Any Surface into Touch Interface
Trees, desks, bus stops, balloons and more are transformed into interfaces.
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Why 3-D Printing Will Go the Way of Virtual Reality
Extruding, printing, and sintering are not the same as manufacturing.
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Stop Organizing Your E-mail, Says Study
People who put incoming e-mails in folders are no better at finding them than those who simply use search.
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Researchers Create “Hate Map” of the U.S. With Twitter Data
The same researchers previously mapped racist Tweets about President Obama. In both cases there’s reason to be a little skeptical.
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