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A pair of projects from Microsoft Research called Humantenna and Soundwave present a unique method for gesture recognition

VIDEO IDG News Service's Matt Hamblen gets an up close look at Samsung's new tablet

A University of Melbourne student rigs a handgrip exerciser to make it function as a computer mouse

As home to one of the world's top universities, Harvard Square normally hosts the exchange of ideas, but can now host the exchange of data, too. Last week a number of businesses and organizations partnered to launch free public Wi-Fi for users within a half mile of the square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The imperfect wafers that never make it into enterprise IT equipment are usually headed for the scrap heap, but Big Blue thinks it has a way to optimize them for a more practical purpose