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New mobile computing hardware provide 3D graphics and faster processing due to dual-core chips. Gaming and virtual worlds should follow movies as the beneficiaries of this technology.

It looks and sounds like Edward, mostly. But Castronova would have read the book and skipped the very safe and pat conclusion that this author heads straight for. He would have read the book to the end. Or at least spent 20 minutes watching TED. Maybe he's winning over his audience before leading them somewhere new.

 Color lets you snap and share photos and videos. But instead of sharing them with people you specify, it shares them with people near you-and if those people are using the Color app to capture stuff, you can see it, too. It all happens in real time in one 

Hilarious (and mostly benign) prank/lesson on accurately setting your Facebook privacy controls.

Wikipedia's tech team announces a test site for ensuring Wikipedia works seamlessly across mobile devices.  They are asking for input and testing support.

An infographic from boston.com that shows where the US' debt has come from by presidential era and who holds the debt as of today.   

Aug. 10, 2011 -- Two of three patients dying of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) appear cured and a third is in partial remission after infusions of genetically engineered T cells...."Our results were absolutely dramatic. It is tremendously exciting," Porter tells WebMD. 

A quiet revolution has been going on in the medical profession and the field of personal health in the last two years, spearheaded by smartphones and tablets, that will change forever the way we obtain and process medical information. Called mHealth (Mobile Health), this industry phenomenon encompasses a wide range of applications - from self-treatment apps on sub-$100 Android phones in Kenya, through texting reminders for the immunization schedule of newborn babies in India, up to testing yourself for STDs with a smartphone kit, or your doctor panning and zooming radiology scans on the go.

Scientists have used animal cells to create an artificial form of meat without the need for the rearing and slaughtering of livestock. The product, known as "in vitro meat", is made from thousands of stem cells which multiply to produce strips of muscle tissue without ever leaving the lab. Dutch scientists experimenting with pig cells say it could be just six months before the first test tube sausage is produced, and within a year lab-grown burgers could be created using similar techniques with cows.