Remember a few months back when Boston.com's The Big Picture released an absolutely beautiful set of robot pictures from across the globe? Well, now...
We're rapidly approaching a time when every conceivable human action will have an associated iPhone application. While still in the early stage of exploring...
The Cyborg revolution marches inexhaustibly forward. Last Monday, the Cyberdyne company had three of its employees strut the streets of Tokyo in their cybernetically...
Scientists are helping robots think before they step. Honda's versatile ASIMO robot was able to find its way through moving obstacles and simulated terrain...
Nations tend to fight over land, minerals, ideologies...and now organs. Public outrage spread through the UK earlier this year when it was discovered that...
Traditional media outlets have been tripping over each other this week with sensational titles such as "Chinese Scientists Reprogram Cells to Create Mice" to...
The line between computers and reality has been blurred. We have murders committed because of World of Warcraft, Second Life romances (an activity normally...
Two months ago Wolfram Alpha launched its question answering engine in one of the most eagerly anticipated product launches of the year. Although sensationalists...
Would you eat food that was genetically modified? You probably already have.
Scientists have been tinkering with the DNA of commercial food for nearly two...
I just wrapped up an amazing weekend participating in the fourth annual scifoo gathering at Google headquarters (the Googleplex) in Mountain View, CA. The...
Accelerating information technologies such as genetics and robotics may someday bring about a technological singularity, but long before this they may have a more...
We’ve seen countless spy movies where the fearless protagonist is being tracked by video cameras shaped like owls or robotic insects with surveillance gear. ...
Yet another sci-fi milestone is upon us: microchips implanted under your skin and used to identify you.
The VeriChip is the first radio-frequency identification (RFID)...
