He can remember it for you wholesale: The new Dick droid has conversational memory. (Credit: Hanson Robotics) For a long-lost android, Philip K. ... read more »
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We were practically ready for this week to be over on Tuesday, when Verizon (without help from Steve Jobs) announced that it had finally landed the i... read more »
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I confess to having a soft spot for much of Microsoft's recent advertising. Mainly because it bothers to appeal to my soft spot. The company decided ... read more »
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General Electric's decision to acquire Lineage Power Holdings reflects the growing importance of power electronics amid the explosive growth of port... read more »
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Steve Wozniak, an Apple co-founder and one of the company&39's biggest fans. (Credit: Scott Ard/CNET) At first, Steve Wozniak was spooked by tod... read more »
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Marines and their Afghan national army counterparts in front of a ZeroBased Regenerator, a solar/energy storage unit consisting of six solar pane... read more »
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Apple's iPhone 4 camera packs a technology that a lot of buyers of the phone may have missed: a new image sensor tech that is coming into focus--pard... read more »
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Tesla driver David Peilow poses in the electric Roadster at Edinburgh Castle. (Credit: Tesla) Feeling that electric cars were getting a bad ra... read more »
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A Japanese scientist says he has a "reasonable chance" of successfully cloning the long-extinct woolly mammoth within just a few years, according to ... read more »
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Steve Jobs has increasingly been sharing the stage with Tim Cook (left) at major events. Here the two, plus Bob Mansfield (right), take questions d... read more »
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editor's notebook OK, this whole Kinect-hacking phenomenon is starting to make my head spin. (Funny that--the system is thus controlling my movements... read more »
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After Yahoo and Microsoft finally integrated their massive search technology and advertising partnership, ComScore is reporting that Yahoo's explic... read more »
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The iPad 2 will sport powerful, new graphics hardware, along with a higher-resolution display, according to a report. That graphics chip would be ... read more »
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(Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) One of my favorite features in Apple's iOS is the quietly-hidden capability to take screenshots. Back when I was doi... read more »
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You may have heard of Fold-It, which involves different approaches to folding proteins, and EteRNA, which lets players propose new molecular structur... read more »
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Is the iPad a one-hit wonder or will the tablet market take off broadly in 2011 That's the question Motorola's Xoom tablet will likely answer. Mot... read more »
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FitnessClass offers over 200 workout videos from renowned instructors. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida) If you're like most folks, your New Y... read more »
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They placed him alongside Nicolas Cage. They lined him up shoulder-to-shoulder with Russell Brand. With a callous twitch of their eyelinered faces, t... read more »
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Given that we are unlikely to get past 2012, perhaps it's churlish to even think of what 2025 might look like. However, the indelible optimists at NA... read more »
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Solar panel maker SoloPower has secured financing to build a manufacturing plant in Oregon, a step toward ramping up production of its thin-film sola... read more »
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