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...After a high-tech revamp, the Victorian-style former farmhouse is jam-packed with technology, including voice-activated light switches and computerised climate controls, that brings domestic living into the future...
...doing their best to put a good face on living in a wired home. But after spending a morning with this down-to-earth couple - Ashley, 28, is in sales and Raymond, 30, is a civil engineer - I've learned more about how average people might live in high-tech homes than I ever expected. Not surprisingly, perhaps, many of the home's most touted interactive features don't work as seamlessly as promised. And so, these time-pressed professionals take advantage of the modern conveniences that make their lives easier and totally ignore the gee-whiz gimmicks that...
Behind LiLi's free will, in fact, is an actress speaking into a mike while strapped into a motion-capture device (when she waves hello, so does LiLi), an animator punching keys for more subtle movements and about $50,000 of software. She's a high-tech, multilingual, digital puppet, Howdy Doody with sex appeal. But LiLi wants to be real. "I'm striving to be more and more human with each passing day," she says with an earnestness that would make Geppetto proud...
...guerrilla tactics that the most technologically sophisticated activists have at their fingertips. Hackers erode the fabric of political debate as much as they challenge state control, says Cancer Omega, a systems administrator at attrition.org. "The U.S.-China cyberwar wasn't about politics," he says. "It was simply a high-tech version of two dogs bent on being the last to mark a fire hydrant." But all agree the trend is unstoppable, even a symptom of broader progress. "Technology is seen by governments as the way to improve growth," says Bristow. "But by opening up your borders...
This fall, students flocking to Harvard’s Technology Product Center (TPC) to purchase computers and other high-tech accessories won’t find Dell among the variety of brands available...