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- Photos: A robot world
- Experimental robots are being tested for a variety of tasks, be it on the battlefield, the the football field or the household.
- Tags: Robots, robot, battlefield, football
- Image galleries 2005-10-09
- Photos: Gun-toting bots
- Robots that shoot are coming, but more testing needs to be done before they can roll onto the battlefield.
- Tags: Robots, battlefield, bot, robot
- Image galleries 2005-06-22
- Photos: Gun-toting bots
- Robots that shoot are coming, but more testing needs to be done before they can roll onto the battlefield.
- Tags: Robots, battlefield, bot, robot
- Image galleries 2005-06-22
Additional Resources
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failuresI get slammed for pronouncing the name wrong, but McAfee is the bestMcAfee is the only true voice on security. I have never once seen a computer with their AV software installed that has be overrun with viruses. If this is...
- Tags: SECURITY, McAfee Inc., HackerSafe
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs
- On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam – and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Pssst! ... wanna save up to 40 percent on a robotic massage chair?
- Okay, I know I'm going to get flamed for furthering ethnic stereotypes, but I have to admit, us Jews love a good bargain. So I'm going to risk getting my butt chewed because I feel compelled to play yiddische consumer advocate. As some of you may know,...
- Tags: Chair, Sharper Image Corp., Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...
- Tags: Robots, Noah, Wall-E, Stanton, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore
- Since it's summertime, this column will have the occasional off-topic diversion. Today, I have to take a few minutes to talk about the new Disney-Pixar film, WALL-E. Don't worry, no spoilers here, but I will try and tie in education. I took my kids and a good...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Earth, Disney Corp., Movie, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Al Gore, WALL-E, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- EA Store (gadget)
- Get into the action with the EA store and Amazon search gadget. EA Store is a fast, reliable and secure way to buy and try EA Games direct. EA Store offers a range of the latest EA PC titles available to download digitally and includes such titles as FIFA, The...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Sidebar Gadgets, EA Store, Search, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level
- MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- RoboGames: a fight 'til the death
- It's the Robot Fighting League's largest contest and CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has a look at the action. Teams from Australia, Brazil, and elsewhere around the world battle for robot glory.
- Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, robogames, fort mason, robots, death match, robotics
- Videos 2008-06-16
- The end of Microhoo
- The end of MicrohooIt's not over yet, but......but a Yahoo buyout doesn't seem terribly likely at this point. I won't say "it's over", though, until after the Yahoo shareholder meeting, since if Icahn wins, he'll certainly try to change MS' collective mind. I figure the chances of Icahn...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Competion
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Smart car (Gallery: Intel shows off computing's future)
- Smart car (Gallery: Intel shows off computing's future)*yawn*some of this stuff is quite...boring and why? the shot of the robot "mixing drinks: looks like a shot of a robot loading a dishwasher..the point is.....???how lazy are we??
- Tags: Robots, Smart Car, Gallery, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- NASA robots on Moses Lake dunes
- According to the Tri-City Herald, WA, NASA engineers in space suits have tested new robotic vehicles for two weeks on the dunes of Moses Lake, WA. These robots could be used on future NASA missions on the Moon and on Mars. According to the newspaper, five robotic vehicles were tested:...
- Tags: NASA, WA, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Breaking the dialogues of the deaf
- Breaking the dialogues of the deafre:.I love how you think of everything in black and white terms... its refreshing. But what if you consider this cognitive dissonance in computing security to be a market itself? Most people don't actually understand very much about the subject due to not their capacity...
- Tags: security, information technology, Cognitive Dissonance
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Robofish teams of underwater robots
- Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...
- Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- A UMan robotic arm
- Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...
- Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Sony Rolly series
- Photo gallery:Sony RollyAt this point, the Sony Rolly has been pretty much done to death around here. Murmurings about the music device started surfacing as early as August of last year, and then it finally visited the U.S. during CES 2008. However, it wasn't until last month that the Rolly...
- Tags: Robots, Digital music, Media players, Digital media, Engineering, Sony Corp., Sony Rolly
- Product reviews 2008-06-05
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