Profile: Super-mechanical The company’s Twine sensors simplify home monitoring
2013 Tech to Watch Spectrum’s editors look at 2013’s hottest technology trends and innovation
Teaching Computers to Hear Emotions New research can detect five different emotions with 81 percent accuracy
This Is Your Computer on Skis That is, this is a pair of custom-made skis, when designed by a computer
What’s a Good Job, and Why Aren’t There More of Them? Technology is gutting the middle of the market, and five other myths about jobs

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Telecom: Fri, January 04, 2013
This Week in Cybercrime: Danger May Not Come from What You Do As Much as Where You Go
Blog Post: Plus: Microsoft issues a gaggle of patches; Google and Microsoft combat attempts to misuse unauthorized certificates
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Semiconductors: Fri, January 04, 2013
Graphene Still Trying to Replace ITO in Organic Solar Cells
Blog Post: Two years after a MIT research team showed how graphene could replace ITO in photovoltaics, another MIT team does it
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Robotics: Fri, January 04, 2013
Video Friday: Chasing Police with Drones, Competitive Robot Foraging, and NAO Keeps a Beat
Blog Post: Post-holidays and pre-CES, we've managed to squeeze in the first Video Friday for 2013
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Computing: Fri, January 04, 2013
Teaching Computers to Hear Emotions
Podcast: New research can detect five different emotions with 81 percent accuracy
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Telecom: Wed, Dec 19, 2012
The End of the Public Phone Network
Podcast: A Washington, D.C., committee wants to phase out traditional telephony worldwide, by June 2018
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Computing: Mon, Dec 31, 2012
IBM’s Watson Goes to Med School
Article: This AI program mastered “Jeopardy!” Next up, oncology
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Energy: Fri, Dec 28, 2012
Japan’s Digital Grid Scheme
Article: Japanese consortium aims to transform the country’s centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells
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Geek Life: Mon, Dec 31, 2012
Build Your Own Google Glass
Article: A wearable computer that displays information and records video
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Telecom: Mon, Dec 31, 2012
A Surge in Small Cell Sites
Article: Mini cellular base stations will blanket urban hot zones and rural dead zones
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Geek Life: January 2013
Build Your Own Google Glass
Article: A wearable computer that displays information and records video
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Green Tech: January 2013
Carbon-Fiber Cars
Article: BMW will introduce the first affordable cars made with superlight carbon composites
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Consumer Electronics: January 2013
Google Gets in Your Face
Article: Google Glass offers a slightly augmented version of reality
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Consumer Electronics: January 2013
Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux
Article: Babak Parviz, head of the Google Glass project, hints at what to expect next
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At Work: Wed, January 02, 2013
What’s a Good Job, and Why Aren’t There More of Them?
Podcast: Technology is gutting the middle of the market, and five other myths about jobs
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