Robotics manufacturing tends to evoke visions of a John Henry-esque scenario in which competent women and men lose jobs to hunks of automated metal. ... read more »
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A food delivery robot shows off the goods at a robot restaurant in Jinan, in China's Shandong Province (click to enlarge). (Credit: Cui Jian/Chin... read more »
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Just in time for New Year's resolution season, a site called Fitango has launched, intending to provide a marketplace where people can buy "plans"... read more »
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The Anonymous group that has been attacking Web sites of organizations that it deems enemies of WikiLeaks has apparently issued a press release to... read more »
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Netflix's toppling of the traditional video-rental market and especially the Blockbuster chain will likely be studied by business students for years... read more »
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Enthusiasm for a promising new standard called Web Sockets has quickly cooled in some quarters as a potential security problem led some browser m... read more »
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Clusters of monarch butterflies in coastal California locations like Santa Cruz may become rarer and rarer as loss of habitat and essential plants ... read more »
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The video game industry posted its best-ever November sales on the strength of Microsoft's Kinect motion controller and games like Call of Duty: Bla... read more »
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Ka-boo--wait, what (Credit: Matt Hickey/CNET) Sure, laptop batteries have had a tendency to explode. I even had a Handspring Visor that randomly w... read more »
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Angry Birds creator Rovio is ruffling its feathers and spreading its wings. At an event today touting the game's popularity, the company discussed an... read more »
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(Credit: Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET) YouTube is rewarding users who do what it asks of them. The company announced in a blog post yesterday... read more »
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Microsoft said today that next week's Patch Tuesday will bring 17 updates plugging 40 holes and featuring two rated "critical," including one in Int... read more »
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If you know what this is and where it was taken, you could win a prize in the Picture of the Week challenge. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) Yummy... read more »
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One nifty aspect of "Star Trek" are the doors that slide open with a whisking sound. While most of us will forever use conventional swinging doors ... read more »
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(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) The all-black Cr-48 that Google is shipping to the first members of its Chrome OS notebook pilot project looked awful... read more »
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This is the best food near me right now. (Credit: Screenshot by Matt Hickey/CNET) I have a weird love/hate relationship with Yelp. On the one hand... read more »
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A commercial pilot project for carbon sequestration and large-scale algae biofuel manufacturing in Australia has been successfully completed, OriginO... read more »
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Hey, we&39're intermediate! (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Google quietly added an advanced search feature over the last couple of days t... read more »
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Two of the biggest names in mobile are reportedly participating in the land grab for the patents belonging to bankrupt telcom firm Nortel. Reuters q... read more »
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(Credit: CNET) A news item this week over at AppleInsider uncovered a troubling practice by a developer at the iTunes App Store. Apparently, users... read more »
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