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  Personal Tech

  Drones in 2020: What's Next?

  Drones, also known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or remote-control flying robots, have evolved from recreational novelties to business essentials. With capabilities...

  By: Terri Williams | Contributor

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  Technology Trends

  How This Museum Keeps the Oldest Functioning Computer Running

  Technology evolves fast.Most of us replace our computers every 3-7 years. Seeing old computers humming along decades after they were invented? Never happens. Unless, of...

  By: Techopedia Staff

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  Personal Tech

  What Mean Time Between Failures Really Means

  Many tech-heads are familiar with the pretty unreadable acronym MTBF. It stands for mean time between failures, and quite a few people (and companies) throw this term...

  By: Justin Stoltzfus | Contributor, Reviewer

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  Hardware

  Nanotechnology: The Biggest Little Innovation in Tech

  To more than a few people, nanotechnology has an inherently ominous tone. After all, avid sci-fi readers won’t soon forget the out-of-control nanoswarm in Michael...

  By: Justin Stoltzfus | Contributor, Reviewer

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  Technology Trends

  5 Defining Qualities of Robots

  The term “robot” is not easily defined, but its etymology is reasonably simple to track. It is not a very old word, having been implemented into the English language...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  IT Business

  Professional Organizations for IT Engineers

  You have been plodding along in your career for years, sometimes as a contractor, other times on the payroll as a “permie.” The speed of technological change means that...

  By: David Scott Brown | Contributor

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  Tech Support

  Common Video Compression Artifacts to Watch Out For

  All visual media is compressed. The purpose of an electronic medium is to store information in a packageable format. Digital video’s quality, clarity and fidelity all...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Technology Trends

  Professor Donald Lupo and the Internet of Everything

  Since the dawn of digital computing, innovators have been in search of greater computing power and efficiency. The ENIAC used nearly 18,000 vacuum tubes and could...

  By: David Scott Brown | Contributor

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  Personal Tech

  5 Technological Innovations that Seek to Enable the Disabled

  The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 established a broad spectrum of rights for disabled persons in the United States. It provided measures to ensure them equal...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Technology Trends

  5 Nature-Imitating Technologies

  There are many different ways that one can define art. But, above all else; art is artificial. And since its origins, art has always reflected or symbolized nature in...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Hardware

  Video Tech: Shifting Focus From High Resolution to High Frame Rate

  Have you ever wondered why British television used to look so different from American television? Or why some slow motion looks better (or smoother) than other slow...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Technology Trends

  5 of Technology’s Most Beautiful Mistakes

  She or he who has never fallen has never climbed. It’s a saying that rings truer and truer the more life experience one gains. We live in an age of technological marvel,...

  By: Colyn Emery