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British prosthesis maker RSLSteeper is readying a myoelectric bionic hand that will let users perform detailed movements such as picking up wooden tiles in the game Jenga or grasping objects with a “power grip” feature. Little information is available, but RSLSteeper says the BeBionic hand will have the world’s first “powered wrist with rotation as well

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BeBionic hand easy on eggs, tough on Coke cans

Typically, natural disasters come with little advance notice. But after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, much of the Pacific coast, including Hawaii, came under tsunami watch over the course of the day.

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Intel plans to release a faster version of its “Pine Trail” Atom processor for Netbooks on Monday, bringing a little extra performance to this popular segment of the laptop market. Intel 'Pine Trail' Atom processor integrates graphics chip function

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Intel plans to release a faster version of its “Pine Trail” Atom processor for Netbooks on Monday, bringing a little extra performance to this popular segment of the laptop market. Intel 'Pine Trail' Atom processor integrates graphics chip function

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Intel to introduce faster Atom chip Monday

The Defense Department has made its peace with social media. Long skittish about forums such as Facebook and Twitter, the U.S. Department of Defense says that it is now OK with social networking services and other interactive Web 2.0 applications

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WHISTLER, B.C.–With snow backdrops and with subjects moving at upwards of 80 miles an hour, Canon figured that the Olympic would be a perfect testing ground for one of its new lenses. The lens, an updated version of its 70-200mm L-series lens, is slated to ship in a few weeks. But Canon made about 300 just

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Olympic notebook: Canon, Nikon get in the picture

WHISTLER, B.C.–With snow backdrops and with subjects moving at upwards of 80 miles an hour, Canon figured that the Olympic would be a perfect testing ground for one of its new lenses. The lens, an updated version of its 70-200mm L-series lens, is slated to ship in a few weeks. But Canon made about 300 just

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Olympic notebook: Canon, Nikon get in the picture

The U.K. government will not exempt universities, libraries, and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week. This would leave many organizations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the Internet, leading legal experts to

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U.K. bill would ‘outlaw open Wi-Fi’ would

Apple last year found a number of workplace violations, including use of underage workers, among its suppliers, even as those companies are coming more in line with Apple’s standards. In 2009, according to its 2010 Progress Report (PDF), Apple’s audits of suppliers turned up 17 core violations, those that it considers to be the most serious

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Apple cites suppliers for violations

One energy analyst is taking a pessimistic view of Bloom Energy’s highly touted fuel cell, saying that there’s “nothing that unique” about the technology. Bloom Energy’s CEO K.R Sridhar Bloom Energy’s CEO K.R Sridhar (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) On Wednesday, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based start-up introduced the Bloom Energy fuel cell, which is designed to be stacked into small blocks and

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Bloom Energy tech ‘not unique,’ analyst says