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Innovations in digital audio technology are emerging that could make "high-resolution audio" available to the masses -- and they aren't coming from Apple, Sony, Dolby, or any of the other usual ...

The Unicode Consortium (Unicode Inc. ) is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually replace existing character encoding ...

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If you have young kids, you'll relate to the value of being able to speak in code. For a few years, I was able to use Pig Latin to speak covertly around my kids. It was handy, and surprisingly ...