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Should the Blind Be Able to ‘Drive’ Automated Vehicles?
It’s probably inevitable: the point at which someone legally forbidden today from manually operating a motor vehicle on public roadways can pop into an automobile and ease on down the road.
40 Years of Music Industry History in Less than a Minute
“The world has changed…” Galadriel might have been talking about Middle-earth, or just the U.S. music industry.
WATCH: Finally, a Vacuum Cleaner That’s Built into a Car
Meet Honda’s 2014 Odyssey, which comes with — wait for it — the world’s first built-into-a-vehicle, crud-sucking hose.
Should We Really Ban Google Glass While Driving?
Is it such a stretch to imagine a world in which devices like Google’s glasses are legal while driving, so long as they adhere to operational strictures based on careful research?
Lessons Learned from the Tesla Motors-New York Times Dustup
Mark Twain popularized the phrase “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” We might well add vehicle logs and satellite data to that statement.
CAVE2: Not a Star Trek Holodeck Yet, but Getting Closer
How much closer are we, really, to Star Trek holodeck tech with the University of Illinois, Chicago’s new CAVE2 project?
Finally, Tattoos That Let You Control Objects with Your Mind
Science hasn’t been easy on the paranormal, routinely deflating fantastic claims by hucksters purporting psychic abilities. So wouldn’t it be ironic if scientists were on the verge of making paranormal-like abilities a reality?
Tesla Motors Pours Cold Data on New York Times ‘Model S’ Review
Tesla Motors promised to release the logs detailing New York Times critic John Broder’s road trip in the Tesla Model S electric car. They’re finally available and, if they’re accurate, it doesn’t look good for Broder.
Move Over, BabelFish: Computer Program Reconstructs Lost Tongues
What if a computer could produce never-before-seen lost languages from their modern descendants in a fraction of the time it takes linguistic experts?
Red Pill, Blue Pill: Is the Universe Just a Giant Computer Simulation?
Are we just a bunch of simulacrums living in a massively computer-generated universe? If so, would there be a way to check?
Your Brain, the Internet and the Universe Have Something Fascinating in Common
What if it turned out that what we’ve become, over the course of evolutionary eons, was about more than just an elemental relationship to the stuff that stars and planets and nebulae are made of?
