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Google announced a new search feature that allows mobile phone users to search and retrieve web pages that have been written in code that formats them for mobile phone screens. They can also find images and SMS pages. Big deal? Well, if you’re trying to reach people with a message there are a heck of a lot of phones out ...

The future looks pretty mobile. 

IBM’s Blue Brain project is a two-year venture for scientists from Big Blue and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne to create a detailed model of the human brain. This effort represents the greatest investigation yet into how the human brain works, achieved by creating a detailed model of the neocortex using the Blue Gene supercomputer. The model, which aims ...

This I like! A new shoe  – dubbed Square-eyes – has a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does and converts it into television watching time.  One button on the shoe – the brainchild of a student at west London’s Brunel University – records the number of steps taken by the child over the day. Another ...