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Smarter Apps Harness Dual Touch Screens

Multipane apps are enabling a tabletlike experience on smartphones. This is done through touch-enabled functions that are activated from one touch screen, with results displayed on the other touch screen.

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The second dual screen smartphone, the S2, will debut later this year from Sony.

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Five Hot Topics in Medical Technology

Improvements in optical imaging, e-health and cloud computing are just some ways in which the health care industry relies on advancing technologies. Here are five medical technologies experts predict to be hot topics in the coming years.

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NJIT Professor Atam Dhawan predicts that point-of-health solutions, optical imaging, and other technologies will drive medical advances over the next few years.

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Technology Brings Digital Memories To Grave Sites

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Dave Quiring Jr. inherited Quiring Monuments from his father 43 years ago. He points to the QR codes he has attached to the gravestones of his father and mother at their family plot in Seattle's Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.

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Possible Pyramids Discovered From Space

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A satellite image shows a field of what may be buried pyramid sites in Egypt.

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Password Analysis Measures Typing Speed and Rhythm

Researchers have created a key-pattern analysis program that measures the speed and rhythm at which a password is typed. These biometrically based passwords are more secure than traditional passwords and could help prevent hacking attacks on both companies and individuals.

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Key-pattern analysis could give rise to a new generation of passwords.

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Scientists At A Loss To Predict Bad Tornado Seasons

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Residents of Joplin, Mo. salvage items from their home on Monday, a day after a devastating tornado struck the town. University of Oklahoma meteorologist Howie Bluestein says this could be be the last major tornado of the season, or "it could continue to be crazy."

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Aboard The Space Station, It's A Beautiful World

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A recent view of Earth from the International Space Station.

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Which Is Smarter: Photosynthesis or Photovoltaics?

If living plants were pitted against man-made solar energy to determine which is more efficient at harvesting sunlight, which would you choose to come out on top: plant leaves or solar cells?

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Plants such as corn (left) use photosynthesis to convert sunlight and water into fuel in a manner similar to using photovoltaic cells (right) to drive electrolysis that splits off the hydrogen from water for fuel.

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Smart Cable Adds On 3D-Like Depth

3D software developers are already hawking automatic conversion algorithms for converting normal movies into 3D, but they still require a special display. Now a patented new technology claims to add 3D-like depth to existing video sources—including games—without requiring a special display.

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Aquarius to Illuminate Links Between Salt, Climate

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Simulated ocean salinity data for NASA's Aquarius instrument. Image