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Driverless cars won’t deliver a transport revolution – and the auto industry stands to...
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New augmented reality system lets smartphone users get hands-on with virtual objects
The new augmented reality system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cell phone screens and lets people interact with those objects by hand...
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Blue light isn’t the main source of eye fatigue and sleep loss – it’s...
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