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Human-Assisted Web Search: The Next Big Thing
Algorithmic search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, have redefined how we gather information. But critics believe that, for some subjects, no machine's analysis can replace old-fashioned human thinkin'. Enter ChaCha.com and our three big questions for web search 2.0.Previous Industry Stories
| Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld: Emerging Tech (Published in the February 2007 issue)
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| The Debut of Technicolor: Time Machine, 1939 (Published in the January 2007 issue)
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| Hi-Def Surround-Sound Setups for Any Budget You can create a theater-quality experience in your own living room. Here are two setups that match your A/V needs to your budget. (Published in the January 2007 issue)
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| Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History Today, many digital effects are so subtle that movie audiences often don't notice them — but it wasn't always so. We asked industry insiders to pinpoint the biggest breakthroughs in digital F/X history. (Published in the January 2007 issue)
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| Movies 2.0: Digital Effects Magic Explained In today's digital Hollywood, cameras capture scenes in bits, not frames—and computer wizards conjure up everything from impossible beasts to cliff-top battlegrounds. Film is dead. Long live the movies. (Published in the January 2007 issue)
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| 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007 Is your PRAM lost in a data cloud? Do you have BAN in your pocket? From garbage turned gold at 10,000 degrees (left) to sensors that you swallow, here are the technologies you’ll be talking about next year. (Published in the January 2007 issue)
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| Tech Watch: Theater Home A new wave of ultra-efficient light-emitting diodes could one day turn your entire house into a flat-panel display. (Published in the January 2007 issue)
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| Tech Watch: Diesel Redefined (Published in the December 2006 issue)
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| Carbon Futures You know the energy picture has changed when some of the world’s biggest companies are making news by joining forces on nuclear energy—a sector that’s been, well, radioactive in the United States for a generation.
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| The Digital Ice Age The documents of our time are being recorded as bits and bytes with no guarantee of future readability. As technologies change, we may find our files frozen in forgotten formats. Will an entire era of human history be lost? (Published in the December 2006 issue)
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The Boy Mechanic
Culled from a half-century of Popular Mechanics issues (make that the first half of last century), The Boy Mechanic represents an age when imagination could conquer far more than the checkbook — when solving a problem was more satisfying than paying to have it go away.