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Article | 29/07/2010 IBM invests in infrastructure sensing and analysis tech
IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is...
Article | 29/07/2010 This year's Defcon badge has a persistent display
It's one of the best things about the Defcon hacking conference, and one of its most closely guarded secrets: the programmable badge that's handed out...
Article | 29/07/2010 Ranger robot breaks record, walks 23km on single charge
A team of students and faculty at Cornell University claim that their <a href="http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research/topics/locomotion_and_robotics/ra...
Article | 12/07/2010 Scientist: Technology can solve problems, introduce new ones
Technology holds the ability to solve some of society's problems, but can generate new issues or require measures that people are unwilling to take, s...
Article | 10/07/2010 Era of robots, tech-enhanced humans not here yet
Advocates of the concept called singularity envision a future in which humans and technology fully converge, but a keynote speaker at the World Future...
Article | 9/07/2010 Solar plane completes first night flight
In a major triumph for alternative energy researchers and enthusiasts, an experimental, solar-powered plane Thursday successfully completed a 26-hour ...
Article | 2/07/2010 IBM to commercialise genome reading
IBM has partnered with Roche, a manufacturer of medical devices, to build a low-cost device that can read human genomes, the company announced Thursda...
Article | 27/10/2008 World's smallest storage device lies in nucleus of an atom
Someday, you might take business data off a disk drive and move it into the nucleus of an atom.
Article | 10/09/2008 Collider probes universe's mysteries at the speed of light
With the world's biggest physics experiment ready to fire up today, scientists from around the world are hoping to find answers to a question that has...