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While trying to get out of my office and take a nice stroll around my office building, I noticed that I was hit with unwanted noise.

Scientists have made a curious breakthrough in computer chip technology. They've discovered that if you "prune" a chip's design--chopping off little-used functions and actually allowing it to make errors--it can result in far more power efficient and smaller designs.

The iPad 2 is getting all sorts of praise, but something interesting is emerging: Are its light weight, large screen and twin cameras perfectly positioned to make the iPad an Augmented Reality giant? Augmented Reality apps have slowly proliferated on smartphones, bringing a novelty and genuine usefulness to some data streams that are overlaid on reality through the device's rear cameras, but now there are tablet computers with rear cameras, too.

The iPad is a natural device for magazine content--it may be the future of the genre, in many ways . But successes have been few and far between so far, so Apple may be trying to help digital magazines by building in a template to the code

The iPad is a natural device for magazine content--it may be the future of the genre, in many ways . But successes have been few and far between so far, so Apple may be trying to help digital magazines by building in a template to the code. Is this a good thing

1. Facebook 's leaping aboard the daily deals/coupon bandwagon, and will be testing out its own Groupon-like service in a limited list of U.S.

Early adopters of the iPad 2 have only had the weekend to play with their new toy. That was enough time for the first reports of possible defects to come to the surface

This afternoon from the stage at South by Southwest , Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair will announce a $75,000 commitment from donors to rebuilding from the Japanese earthquake, along with a personal pledge: If the donation link bit.ly/sxsw4JP is reTweeted 100,000 times, he'll donate 10% of his own salary. The rebuilding effort will unfold in stages, depending on how much money is ultimately raised.

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The iPad 2 is only just out in public, but the iPhone 5 rumors are now ramping up, with hints the new phone may get an all-metal makeover. Does this make good sense

Steve Jobs just wrapped up another one of his trademark announcements and it's now official: There is a new iPad.

Tyler McIntyre got an iPhone in 2009. It didn't change everything, but it did frustrate the University of Miami freshman