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The deep sea crushes puny humans, but she reveals her secrets to intrepid robot explorers called autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). These metallic Jacques Cousteaus may be immune to low temperatures and lack of oxygen, they must face a host of other calamities, especially these five....
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Sea Launch says it "experienced an anomaly" on Tuesday. That's putting it mildly. Its launch pad blew up, destroying a rocket and its satellite payload. Tech expert Joel Johnson investigates the disaster turned YouTube sensation—and finds out what DirecTV had to do with it....
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The R400 is the rare example of a laptop whose high-end price tag has less to do with high performance components and more to do with cramming as many features as possible—some of them relative industry-firsts—into one streamlined package....
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You may already be carrying a high-speed wireless modem in your pocket and not realize it. With a few tweaks, the devices your company gives you for e-mail can share their connections with a laptop. Learn how inside Glenn Derene's weekly tech trend column, with video....
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We attended Microsoft's swanky OS launch party and came back with a bag of software... that we're afraid to put on our computers....
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As an e-mail and organization device, Palm's new entry into the exploding smartphone market is truly splendid, but it is not necessarily so impressive next to the devices it is competing with — and certainly not the iPhone. Learn more with a full review and hands-on video....
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In what may be the first big step toward avoiding the dawn of a “Digital Ice Age,” Microsoft wants you to be your own afterlife communications agent. Plus, a killer app for batteries, evidence questions in the Duke lacrosse trial, more helicopter issues and shark video....
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Words can't really describe what makes the SpaceNavigator controller so exciting. That's why Popular Mechanics gizmo guy Erik Sofge gets hands-on with Google Earth in a video episode for the first weekly installment of PM's newest tech feature....
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Contrary to their earlier statements, Westinghouse now claims that their 1080p televisions are not the cause of the Sony PlayStation 3 blinking phenomenon. "It turns out that the problem was in the source box," says a Westinghouse representative, referring to the Sony PS3....
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