Slideshow: Scary technology
Halloween is fast approaching. Time to don your "clever" iPod costume or put on a bathrobe and be Arthur Dent. But there's also a world of technology out there that's scarier than anything M. Night Shyamalan ever produced (admittedly, not that difficult). Read on, and get ready to hide under your bed...or drool with anticipation.
Virtual bears, futuristic pods and spaghetti rain in Tokyo
It might earn them university credits but a robot developed by students in Japan won't help dispel the image of the lazy student. The robot has been designed to fold clothes.
Harvard’s robotic bees generate high-tech buzz
Harvard researchers recently got a $10 million grant to create a colony of flying robotic bees, or RoboBees to among other things, spur innovation in ultra-low-power computing and electronic "smart" sensors; and refine coordination algorithms to manage multiple, independent machines.
Robotic arm fetches Japanese cargo ship at space station
The International Space Station crew used the Canadarm robotic arm to pluck a cargo spacecraft as it hovered 30 feet away.
Bionic Penguins: Our future robot overlords?
Festo's Bionic Learning Network demonstrates some very cool tech in a video that feels like a segment out of a science fiction film.
jfruh
Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
pasmith
New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
mikelgan
How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
David Strom
Five important Windows 7 mobility features
sjvn
Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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Slideshow: Scary technology
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