World, meet the National Ignition Facility: a massive and incredible research device to study (and create) controlled nuclear fusion. Containing the world's largest...
If many hands make light work, then maybe many computers can make an artificial brain. That's the basic reasoning behind Intelligence Realm's Artificial Intelligence...
Cat technology has never been this revolutionary (terrible, terrible pun… just read on) since the advent of the laser pointer and, before then, bubbles. ...
Everybody has a database: staffers, bankers, law enforcers and now geneticists, too. The PGP is not a college fraternity (rush Lambda Lambda Lambda) but...
Tired of using thumbs to endlessly update Twitter on a cell phone? Well, worry no longer about finger injuries from marathon tweeting: the University...
Modern medicine may not have reached the level of the Bionic Woman, but intestinal implants are turning more and more diabetics into low-grade cyborgs....
You think that these robots would start investing in a GPS system. Recently, Singularity Hub covered the Tweenbot, a simple cardboard-wrapped automaton that was...
The robot invasion is nowhere close to over. Singularity Hub has reported on a multitude of autonomous machines (the autonomous forklift, KIVA, Asimo) that...
When Descartes said "I think therefore I am" he probably didn't know that he was answering a security question. Using behavioral or physical characteristics...
To those unfamiliar with Japanese culture, certain trends may seem unusual: manga and anime, the love affair with robotics, tea ceremonies...computerized talking toilets. Yeah,...
Blue-collar robots don't really get the press they deserve. These dedicated, well designed, and efficient workers provide unparalleled improvements in almost every major industry....
Microscopic workers of the world unite! There's a trend floating around laboratories: designing tiny mechanisms that can build other devices from the atomic level...
Somewhere between the harshness of reality and the fantasy of virtual reality lies the domain of Augmented Reality (AR). The French company Total Immersion's...
Nanobots the size of living cells swimming around our bodies, doing our bidding to fight disease, make repairs, and augment our abilities? Futurists and...
Goodbye freshman seminars, beer-pong, student loans, and your cap and gown. Hello online coursework, digital textbooks, lecture mp3's, and a radically new form...