Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 1:29pm
Looking out into the depth and width of the universe is a big darn job, but luckily we've got big darn telescopes to do it with. Not only are they big, but a lot of these telescopes are pretty crazy...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 4:06am
While the world makes plans for New Year's, tech enthusiasts look forward to the annual Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner. Every year at the beginning of January pretty much the entire technology industry descends on Las Vegas...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 4:17am
Within a scant few hours, Amazon should be delivering the new Kindle DX into our hot little hands. Wait, what — a new Kindle? Yep, Kindle 2 has only been on shelves for just shy of three months, but Amazon...
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Friday, March 13, 2009 - 7:51am
In our three part series on the future of robotics, we've been trying to figure out just what it would take to build C-3PO for real. First we asked James Kuffner, a Carnegie Mellon professor who is working to build...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 4:01pm
In the first part of our expert roundtable, we asked AI whiz and CMU assistant professor James Kuffner what it would take to breathe life into C-3PO. Now we turn to Matt Denton, who runs an animatronic company in the...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 2:59pm
Science fiction has been teasing us with robots for decades. From Isaac Asimov's tome-like novels filled with law-bound robots to the helpful or menacing 'bots on the big screen, many of us grew up with the idea that a robot-filled...
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 3:30pm
This week we gave you a lot of options. For instance, would you rather have a touchscreen-less slider with a fully QWERTY keyboard, or a slider with a keypad you can barely see at all? How about a bracelet that...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:39pm
From holes in rooftops to flickering torches to glowing light bulbs — the world of household lighting has come a long way. Nowadays artists and designers alike are stretching the boundaries of form and function when it comes to...
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Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 9:18am
Prolific author Michael Crichton died this week. He practically invented the techno-thriller genre — scientifically complex stories tempered with strongly human characters (his last novel will be posthumously published next year). Our sister site SCI FI Wire has a...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 9:22am
When those scientists get together to build a huge gadget, they don't mess around. The Large Hadron Collider — the world's largest machine ever — fired up for the first time at 4:28am EDT this morning (see the first...
