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Which of these 5 disruptive tech predictions will get real this decade?

 Controlling Devices With Our Mind Expected By: 2017; embedded brain controls 2020   Science fiction and fantasy has long harbored visions of technology that could...

Gaia creator rows back on climate

Dr Lovelock, one of the world’s leading environmental thinkers once warned climate change would reduce mankind to a few breeding pairs in the Arctic.  ...

Google gets Nevada driving licence for self drive car

The first to hit the highway will be a Toyota Prius modified by search firm Google, which is leading the way in driverless car technology....

Microsoft promises to go carbon neutral from July

From July 1st 2012 its data centres, software development labs and office buildings would all be carbon neutral, the firm announced.   Environmental groups have...

Bionic woman Claire Lomas completes London Marathon

The £43,000 device allows Claire Lomas to walk by detecting shifts in her balance.   Mrs Lomas, from Eye Kettleby near Melton Mowbray, was paralysed...

Dogs Feel Your Pain

Yawn next to your dog, and she may do the same. Though it seems simple, this contagious behavior is actually quite remarkable: Only a few...

Thomas Sterling: I Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops

As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain.  HPC veteran Thomas Sterling, Professor of...

Analysts disappointed with EA outlook, but see bright points

Electronic Arts shareholders are being sorely tested again after the video game giant posted good earnings but warned about a tough quarter ahead. The stock...

Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants

Over 100 international tech companies have registered their interest in the floating geek city, Blueseed, which will be launched next year in international waters outside...

Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells

But that could soon change: Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to automate the process of finding and...