Robots don’t stroll, at least not in science fiction movies.
They more often than not lumber or, in the case of C-3PO, shuffle. But thanks to scientists at the University of Arizona, you might one day see a robot casually …
Innovation
Quantum Computing at Room Temperature — Now a Reality
You’ve read about the world’s first quantum network built from two atoms and one proton. You’ve heard about the quantum computer someone plonked inside a diamond to grapple with something called “quantum decoherence.” I mean, who …
Allen Institute: Microsoft Cofounder’s Organization Holds Brain Hackathon
Yesterday, I wrote about a researcher “hacking” into Stephen Hawking’s mind with a new device called the iBrain. But for most scientists, hacking the brain doesn’t mean bypassing the physical body — it means making sense of the …
How Google’s Chief Innovator Sergey Brin Is Making Science Fiction Real
At a time when some pundits are questioning whether Silicon Valley’s innovation engine is tapped out, web search titan Google offered a powerful display last week of why that’s not the case.
via Google’s Chief Innovator …
Going to Comic-Con? Come to My Panel on the Future of Graphic Novels
I’ve been going to Comic-Con in San Diego off and on–but mostly on–since 1988. Back then, 8000 people turned out, and it seemed like an awful lot at the time. This year, something in the neighborhood of 125,000 will attend from …
Reading Stephen Hawking’s Mind to Keep His Voice Alive
Philip Low almost didn’t meet Stephen Hawking.
Running his own start-up, NeuroVigil, was exhausting for Low and after his speech at the World Science Festival in New York, the last thing he wanted to do was socialize at an …
How to Track Colorado’s Waldo Canyon ‘Super Fire’ (and Others)
As an uncontrolled “super fire” near Colorado Springs rages, feeding off parched terrain and forcing tens of thousands from their homes and businesses, high-tech mapping tools are dishing up highly detailed, bird’s eye views of …
Think You’re Good at Rock-Paper-Scissors? This Robot Always Wins
Is nothing sacred? It appears robots have moved beyond beating us at bar games to dominating the sacred games of our childhood — in this case, rock-paper-scissors.
There is absolutely nothing you can do to beat this robot. …
DryBath: How to Take a Shower Without Using Any Water
A South African college student’s new invention could change the world for those of us too lazy to shower — and potentially save millions of lives.
via DryBath: How to Take a Shower Without Using Any Water | NewsFeed | TIME.com.
How Libraries Are Reinventing Themselves for the Future
Many branches of these public institutions are dying from lack of funding—and reinventing themselves in surprising new ways.
Google Joins Fight to Save Nearly 3,000 Endangered Languages
The last native speakers of Miami-Illinois died in the 1960s. Two centuries earlier, Jesuits came to the United States and found two tribes — the Miami and the Illinois, which both shared a common language.
“The Jesuits …
It’s the End of the Standard Model (of Particle Physics) as We Know It?
And they’re off: An electron and a positron race east toward Stanford’s main campus along a two-mile course — the longest of its kind (and straightest) in the world — that from high above looks like a giant chalk-colored dam, …
