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Courtesy of BioDigital The muscles and bones around the spinal column, as seen in the BioDigital Human app for iPad. Thanks to 3D mapping technology you can peek at Central Park, walk the Great Wall of China or even zoom in on the Big Dipper without leaving your sofa. Now a new map lets you explore locations much, much closer ...

Qualcomm is kicking CES off with a brace of announcements targeting new markets for the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The Snapdragon 602 is designed to drop into the vehicles of 2014 and beyond, while the Snapdragon 802 targets the next generation of smart TVs and 4K displays. This is part of Qualcomm’s own efforts to win space in the “Internet ...

Orbiting high over the lunar surface is LADEE, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, with a mission to probe the moon’s exosphere and dust clouds. It will take readings using a number of spectrometers and specialized equipment, piling up stores of data as quickly as it can manage. In just 100 days of primary operation, it will compile enough ...

Google, the search engine and advertising company, has acquired Boston Dynamics — the robotics and engineering company famous for the creation of some of the world’s most advanced robots, including BigDog, Cheetah, Petman, and Atlas. This brings Google’s total number of robot-related acquisitions to eight, and the company now has teams of robotics experts in California and Japan. As we’ve ...

Over the weekend, Sony broke two records: Over one million PS4s were sold in the first 24 hours of availability — but on the other hand, it seems a huge number of those consoles were dead-on-arrival bricks. Sony’s customer service department will replace these broken consoles, but due to the dearth of stock in North America, early adopters are being ...