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July 2010 Issue

A little Polish company you’ve never heard of is beating the tech titans in a key technology of the 21st century

The oil-separating centrifuges will work, but they would have worked better months ago

Could the murder victim’s BlackBerry lead to her killer? Increasingly, the answer is yes

Lego tries to construct a new empire with pixels, not plastic

Chipmakers are busy designing microprocessors that most programmers can’t handle

Engineers use technology to demystify the black art of barbecue

A historian's new book sheds light on blackouts

A noted bioethicist argues for age-based rationing of high-tech health care

A new biography reassesses the invention of FM

Experimental GE CT scanner gives a lower dose of radiation with more X-ray sources

Facebook and other social networks could provide a framework for safer resource sharing

A new report on the health effects of the Vatican's shortwave transmitters says the church is causing cancer in children

Particle-size light mill could power nanomachines

New software helped decode the DNA of our stone-age cousins

Z-RAM memory design might find a spot in the competitive DRAM market

As computers get better and better, does our attachment to them get less and less?

The BlackBerry's ill-fated patent dispute with NTP takes a final turn

Artist Nathan Sawaya has built life-size Lego creations for IEEE Spectrum and Donald Trump

The King Kong of gaming computers now comes in a Fay Wray-size package

In his spare time, software engineer John Rogers presides over one of the world's largest and strangest conventions

How to build your own digital microscope

U.S. customers pay some of the highest—and lowest—mobile phone rates in the world

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