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Technology now allows companies to follow your behavior on the Web and customize ads for you based on that data. When does that become invasion of privacy?
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Welcome to the Feel Good Future
At TED and other geek gab events, the focus is not on what is, but rather what’s possible. Here are five inventions whose time may soon be coming
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Will High Gas Prices Jolt Electric Cars?
This is the year we should find out if plug-in cars are for real. And it doesn’t hurt when gas goes over $4 a gallon
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Our nervous system can hold on to pain memories for a long time. But scientists may have found a way to make pain go away for good
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Is the U.S. Out of Love with Cutting-Edge Transit?
It feels like it. But there is plenty of innovative thinking shaping the future of public transportation. You just need to look elsewhere to find it
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The Race For an Alzheimer’s Miracle
Researchers have made a flurry of discoveries related to memory loss recently. But will they really help us find a way to keep brains from shutting down?
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What’s Science Got to Do With It?
Can anyone really make sense of romance? Researchers keep trying because, frankly, we want answers
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How Smart Does a TV Need to Be?
Sure, they’re big and they’re flat. But TVs still aren’t that bright. This, however, could be the year they start acting more like smart phones
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10 Bright Ideas to Get You Through February
It’s not easy to think happy thoughts this time of year. But here are some examples of innovative thinking that remind us it will get better
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Is that what it will take for NASA to get its mojo back? Or are there better ways to spend its money?
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Whether it’s iPads replacing textbooks or college courses being offered free around the world, education is moving into some uncharted territory.
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So What Do We Do With All This Data?
Scientists think all the personal information now being shared on social networks or collected by sensors could help them predict the future
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Are Your Eyes Also a Window to Your Brain?
Research shows you can learn a few things about a person by watching where they’re looking.
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Here are young entrepreneurs whose innovative thinking has them poised for big things this year
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Can This Invention Save Cameras?
With the Lytro camera, you no longer have to bother with focusing an image. Plus, your photos become interactive
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A Preview of CES: When Cars Become Smartphones
Is the day coming when your car will talk to your alarm clock and also check your heart rate?
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Researchers are finding that our behavior may be more hard-wired than we’d like to believe. If so, can we handle the truth?
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Here are more of the terms you should know if you want to feel plugged into innovations changing the way we live this year
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