A look at the year-end review of nanotechnology developments at TechnologyReview showcases the mind-boggling developments in store for technology in the future.

It's about putting emotions on text. Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first to use keystrokes to put the "smiley face" in an e-mail. That started the deluge of emotion icons, popularly called "emoticons," that have added a great dimension to the basic fabric of communication.

Thanks to Jimmy Ruska’s video on YouTube, there are several quirks about phrasing search queries for Google that can find you files in a jiffy. I will detail the method and include it as a Firefox bookmark first, and then I’ll follow up with detailed information on the actual query. Subscribe to the Developer Insider ...

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