Cocorobo is the new robot from Sharp that will finally allow you to become friends with a household appliance.
Naoki Maru — who has won Japan’s ROBO-ONE competition multiple times with his robot King Kizer — has created a Real Steel-type machine with the help of a Kinect-style Asus Xtion Pro Live sensor.
Facebook’s Disaster Message Board works by sending you a reminder in your News Feed to mark yourself as “SAFE” after a major disaster.
Anyone else tired of these “fastest computer in the world” stories? I am. They almost sound like bragging. Look what we did with our computer, but you can’t with yours! I don’t really care whether a Smaug-the-dragon treasure horde’s worth of silicon can do 10 or 100 petaflops. I just want to know how many [...]
Missiles, submarines and yes, even nuclear power plants were targeted in a cyber attack launched against Japan’s premiere weapons maker, reports Al Jazeera. The victim: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which said today that a total of 83 of its servers and computers were infected by as many as eight separate viruses.
Would a phone-based alert system have saved lives in Japan, had one been available for iOS users when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that raised a wall of water devastating much of Japan’s Pacific coastline hit in early March this year? Apple’s betting yes. Cupertino’s adding a special earthquake notification widget to the Japanese version of [...]
It looks like the kind of gadget you’d see CGI’ed into a sci-fi show (in fact, similar CGI flying spheres did appear in Doctor Who not all that long ago). But this particular flying object is very real, very cool, and very coming to a battle zone near you in the not-too-distant future.
Imagine hurtling downward at nerve-fraying speeds while shooting slightly backwards before curving into a perfect vertical drop and out again, sort of like surfing the inside bottom-half of the letter ‘s’.
Where in the world can you crunch over 8 quadrillion calculations per second? Find 672 computer racks linking an astonishing 68,544 CPUs, each of which harbors eight cores? Where the computing output is roughly equivalent to the power of 28,160 PlayStation 3s? *
Japanese authorities have had enough of spam emails and viruses, and decided that there’s only one way to deal with them: Jail time.
You’ve got to hand it to Sony. In the face of a humiliating security breach and three-week-long PlayStation Network outage, they didn’t go for the “these aren’t the hacks you’re looking for” Jedi mind trick. They addressed the issue straight on, acknowledging that the outage happened, admitting that they may have lost some of their [...]
