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By Peter Jeary, NBC News
LONDON – At first glance, it looks like the partial remains of an ancient mosaic or the garble of an out-of-order digital billboard. Then the scale of the work grabs your attention: It sprawls across three walls of a gallery in London’s trendy Chelsea district, stretching more than 40 yards.
Like many works of art, the totality [...]

In today’s Remainders, the future! The soldiers of tomorrow get a new battery for their exoskeletons; a 2012 Olympic Stadium built from recycled weapons; a discovery showing that a big brain can indicate a great gamer, and more.
Hulk For Hours
The HULC exoskeleton is supposed to make you strong like the Hulk. Or strong like a [...]

Abandon all hope, ye who enter Remainders. Today, we’ve got: Windows 7 needs less tech support than anyone expected, Acer’s Olympic-themed laptop, Sprint’s Android phones skipping Android 2.0, and a leaked Panasonic (non-Micro) Four Thirds camera.

Windows 7 Customers Are Just so Savvy
Windows 7’s tech support lines have been far less busy than expected—but we can’t [...]

I love symbolic gestures as much as the next guy, but is flying the olympic flame from Greece to Canada in a bunch of miner’s lanterns spread across six airplane seats really necessary? [The Big Picture]

Giz reader, Jake Kirshner, needs your help. He’s one of the final five semi-finalists in a Microsoft-sponsored competition to find a U.S student blogger/athlete to report from next year’s Consumer Electronics Show (where we’ll be ourselves), in addition to the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Jake’s a Computer Science major at the University of Utah, a competitive [...]