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.
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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).
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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"...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Sure, laptop batteries have had a tendency to explode. I even had a Handspring Visor that randomly w...
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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...
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YouTube is rewarding users who do what it asks of them.
The company announced in a blog post yesterday...
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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...
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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.
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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 ...
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This is the best food near me right now.
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I have a weird love/hate relationship with Yelp. On the one hand...
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A commercial pilot project for carbon sequestration and large-scale algae biofuel manufacturing in Australia has been successfully completed, OriginO...
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Google quietly added an advanced search feature over the last couple of days t...
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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...
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A news item this week over at AppleInsider uncovered a troubling practice by a developer at the iTunes App Store. Apparently, users...
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