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Goodbye, anonymity: Latest surveillance tech can search up to 36 million faces per second

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 28th

By Francis BeaProvided by Welcome to the next generation in surveillance technology. A Japanese company, Hitachi Kokusai Electric, has unveiled a novel surveillance camera that is able to capture a face and search up to 36 million faces in one second for a similar match in its database. While the

Ever want to sleep in a giant tube pipe? Now you can at Tubohotel

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 27th

By Natt GarunProvided by When I was growing up in Bangkok, Thailand, the city was beginning to build its first ever overhead public transportation system. On my way to school, I would often see massive tube pipes lined up along the road and get this childish urge to run and play inside the

Save trees by laser-wiping paper clean with the "un-printer"

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 23rd

By Trevor MoggProvided by For people working in offices, the sound of the laser printer kicking into action will be a familiar one. A day won't go by without the machine cranking into action, delivering sheet after sheet of warm, freshly printed paper. Of all those printed sheets, many will

Employers are beginning to ask job applicants for their Facebook logins

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 21st

By Natt GarunProvided by t's a known fact that when you apply for a job, most prospective employers will run a background check, including on your social media presence. With the tools to narrow down searches on Facebook according to location and education, if you don't have your privacy

Swann gives doorbells the MP3 ringtone treatment

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 16th

By Natt GarunProvided by This is one of those tech gadgets that we don't know why no one's thought of until now. If cellphones can have MP3 ringtones for calls, alarms and text message alerts, couldn't other items that use sound as an alarm do the same? Meet the Swann MP3 DJ

SchoolFeed: The Facebook app everyone needs to avoid

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 15th

By Andrew CoutsProvided by Late one evening about a month ago, I received a notification on Facebook saying that one of my friends had invited me to join SchoolFeed, a Classmates.com-like social network that connects users with old high school buddies. The service uses a Facebook Canvas app to

Can you charge your gadgets simply by breathing into them?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 9th

By Natt GarunProvided by We all breathe as a vital bodily function to keep ourselves alive, but aside from the health benefits of air-to-blood circulation (and, of course, not dying), one designer thinks breathing can also be an alternate source of electrically charging your devices. The

Apple announces the new iPad: Retina display, 4G & the iPhone 4S camera

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 7th

By Molly McHughProvided by Apple has officially announced the new iPad. And for starters, that's it's name: iPad. Not the iPad 3 or iPad HD, just the iPad. While it doesn't have a new name, there are plenty of significant updates to make up for it -- including the much-longed-for

The 5 Quirky products that need to come out now

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 6th

By Natt GarunProvided by Quirky is a social product development company that takes your innovative consumer projects and attempt to make it reality. You know how sometimes we post amazing concept designs that are incredible in every which way but probably won't see in our homes until at

iPad 3: Everything we (might) know

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 5th

By Andrew CoutsProvided by Apple's iPad 3 (or iPad HD, perhaps?) will make its world debut on Wednesday, March 7. Interestingly, there's an underlying assumption in the tech news world that, this time, the rumors surrounding Apple's latest creation have it at least mostly right. That