A group of Chinese workers who were poisoned while manufacturing iPhones say Apple and its supplier have yet to provide for the additional medical treatment they urgently need.
In the wake of Internet blackouts in Egypt and Libya, Google has announced it is awarding at least $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers working on tools that will immediately reveal when governments are trying to shut down or censor use of the Internet.
In Death and the Powers, a new opera by MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover, the main character wishes to leave the physical world, but remain there digitally. He downloads himself into The System and continues to interact with the audience and other characters through robots and a technique called disembodied performance.
The multiple disasters afflicting Japan--earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear--have created an outpouring of charity around the world. As part of the effort, several Apple-oriented software developers are donating services and money to ease the suffering of victims and their families.
A Kinect-powered robot could soon be helping locate earthquake victims, thanks to the engineering ingenuity of a group of U.K. students. The rescue-robot, developed at the University of Warwick by the geeky Warwick Mobile Robotics (WMR) team, could help significantly reduce the costs involved in earthquake rescue attempts.
Authorities from Asia to California are working on computerized systems to warn people of large earthquakes, which are in focus again after the deadly temblor in New Zealand. None of the warning systems have faced the real thing yet, though.
The Angry Birds fad phenomenon continues - a video making its way around the Internet shows how a dad made a birthday cake for his 6-year-old son that shows an Angry Birds level. But more than that, he added a slingshot and made the cake "playable", which raises the bar just ever so slightly.
As IBM's Watson computer digs in for its competition on "Jeopardy!" this week, we are reminded that this is the first in a long series of classic man vs. machine moments. Here we have a look at some of the famous real and not so real man vs. machine action.
Drivers who run red lights cause more than 600 deaths a year according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The same group recently published results finding that cities that used red light cameras saw a decrease in crashes and deaths related to red light running.
TechSoup Global has sent more than two billion dollars of donated computer hardware and software to hundreds of non-profits around the world, along with offering dozens of seminars. Here's a snapshot of this non-profit, and how to get involved.
This slide show highlights the wide range of organizations that have benefited from TechSoup Global, and summarizes what each organization has done with the donated technology. Thousands of non-profits that have been involved in TechSoup Global's program over the past decade.
Microsoft-cofounder Bill Gates is increasing his foundation's commitment to eradicating Polio. At last week's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Gates pledged more money to a global effort that appears close to eliminating the disease.
Two U.S. Congressman have sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking information on the company's plan to make specific user data available to third party application developers and publishers.
A research project aimed at allowing mobile phones to communicate without traditional infrastructure has attracted phone manufactures and not-for-profits looking to leverage the technology.