Privacy gets top billing in Firefox moves
Tech watchers were discussing Mozilla this week over its new moves, new plans, new Firefox features.
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Robotics
New ultra-soft underwater gripper safely catches and releases jellyfish without damage
Jellyfish are about 95% water, making them some of the most diaphanous, delicate animals on the planet. But the remaining 5% of them have yielded important scientific discoveries, like green fluorescent protein (GFP) that ...
Aug 28, 2019
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Read this before installing extensions to your web browser
When Amazon offered recently to pay Prime members $10 to download its Assistant browser extension, Jeremy Tillman, who runs the ad-blocking software Ghostery, took notice. He likened it to that sweetheart deal when the Dutch ...
Jul 22, 2019
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Robotics
Robot-guided video game gets older adults out of comfort zone, learning and working together
Two residents of Elmcroft Senior Living sat side-by-side facing a large screen, raising their hands in tandem as the watch-style devices on their wrists controlled the avatars in front of them. Every so often, a squat little ...
Mar 18, 2019
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Britannica Insights will help searchers cut through noise for good answers
The next time your niece asks you where 18 things come from, you may not need to worry over the quality of your answer that was snatched from a quick keyboard tap. Not if you download an extension. A regarded information ...
Computer Sciences
Browser extension helps the visually impaired interpret online images
Imagine internet browsing without the ability to make sense of images. It's a problem that visually impaired computer users face every day. While screen reading technology gives users audible access to written content, it ...
Feb 12, 2018
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Internet
Facebook engineer tells why he gives Open/R platform huge likes
Facebook is talking about an extensible distributed network application platform, and the benefits attached to such a platform.
