Microsoft Denies Report of Ad Data Being Harvested From Xbox One’s Kinect

Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com It’s still a month and a half away from launching, but Microsoft’s next-gen gaming console kicked up another messaging controversy over the weekend when Advertising Age reported that the Kinect camera, mandatorily bundled with the system, could be used to harvest marketing data about users. But...

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Someday, your Ikea furniture might assemble itself

Self-assembling robots use flywheels to flick themselves around.  by Casey Johnston A pair of M-Blocks at rest. John W. Romanishin, Kyle Gilpin and Daniela Rus At a certain level of complexity and obligation, sets of blocks can easily go from fun to tiresome to assemble. Legos? K’Nex? Great....

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