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T-Mobile's Motorola DEFY one of the few ruggedized Android handsets around. You wouldn't necessarily know it to look at it, however, since Motorola has managed to avoid the over-rubberized look so many rugged devices suffer from. The spec list is reasonable, too. A 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive (Gorilla glass) touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and the usual WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS, along with 3G/UMTS. No HSPA+ [...]

When hypothesizing about life that may exist elsewhere in the universe, the tendency is to visualize something far different from life here on earth. But here in our galactic neighborhood, a team of MIT researchers argues, life it just as likely related to us. Following that line of thought, the team is developing a prototype alien DNA decoder that it [...]

UK Prime Minister David Cameron is hanging out in East London and yesterday says he admits that UK copyright laws are outmoded and that they've chilled innovation on the internet. He notes that a no-permission-needed approach generally proves much more successful and he wants to change UK law and their approach to industrial policy to reflect it. Cameron had the [...]

Global Positioning Systems work famously here on the home planet because we control all of the moving parts; put some satellites in the sky, equip a device with the proper hardware to communicate with them, and you can locate yourself just about anywhere. But how would we locate ourselves in deep space? For that kind of spatial location, a team [...]

Even if Apple has become a major name in mobile gaming, with the likes of the iPod Touch and iPhone hosting some of the most addictive casual games available on the market, there's still the gamers out there who want nothing more than to have some physical buttons to control their favorite games. The Tactile+Plus Stickers hope to alleviate that [...]