Tech // 

Last time we looked at the UK’s teeming video surveillance technology sector we were writing about facial recognition…

Clay Dillow at 05:02 AM Aug 24 2011
Robots // 

Our favorite Twitter ‘bot–no, like an actual robot that tweets–is out of the box and live-tweeting its new …

Clay Dillow at 03:01 AM Aug 24 2011
Robots // 

Throwbot. Small, rugged, easy to deploy. “One time we dropped it out of a helicopter from more than 30 metres,” one …

Clay Dillow at 02:08 AM Aug 24 2011
Science // 

Using a webcam hooked up to custom PC software, a pair of researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, have …

Clay Dillow at 07:37 AM Aug 23 2011

Commanding an army of drones is one thing; letting drones command themselves is something else entirely, especially …

PopSci.com at 05:13 AM Aug 23 2011
Space // 

Until companies start launching private spaceships, Russian-built space capsules will be the only way to get …

Staff Writers at 04:12 AM Aug 23 2011

Guide dogs are great, but vision-impaired people sometimes need to find their own way through complex environments. …

Staff Writers at 03:05 AM Aug 23 2011
Cars // 

Carmakers have spent the past few years aggressively downsizing engines throughout their lineups to meet increasingly…

Staff Writers at 01:08 AM Aug 23 2011
Tech // 

Dual-core processors have been a computing mainstay for more than six years, allowing machines to handle two tasks …

Staff Writers at 00:03 AM Aug 23 2011
Science // 

Clusters of islands poked through hot oceans 3.4 billion years ago, when the world still had no oxygen and the seas …

Staff Writers at 03:01 AM Aug 22 2011
Science // 

A dog can accurately detect the early presence of lung cancer by sniffing patients’ breath, doctors in Germany say. …

Staff Writers at 05:54 AM Aug 20 2011
Tech // 

Digital recording binoculars aren’t really new–there are some cheapie versions available–but Sony’s new DEV-3 and …

Staff Writers at 02:55 AM Aug 20 2011
Energy // 

Plenty of us head into the woods to find inspiration. Aidan Dwyer, 13, went to the woods and had a eureka moment …

Staff Writers at 00:00 AM Aug 20 2011
Mobile // 

Today, in an almost insultingly brief statement in the middle of a press release about something else entirely, HP …

Staff Writers at 08:16 AM Aug 19 2011
Cars // 

Brunico, Italy – A snowy K-Mart parking lot would have worked fine. But this being Ferrari, and the star its …

Lawrence Ulrich at 06:28 AM Aug 19 2011
 
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