I’ve covered every square inch of the gigantic Consumer Electronics Show — year after year after year — and I’ve seen a lot of weird stuff. This is the weirdest thing I’ve seen yet.
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Video: Your New Year’s Resolutions for Using Twitter
Jazzhands! Instead of making my own resolutions, here’s what you need to work on when using Twitter this year.
A Year In Googling: The People, Events (and Diets) That Defined Our 2012 Web Conversation
What captured the world’s attention this year? What news events had people buzzing loudest? Google shared some of its year-end search data with TIME ahead of its Wednesday morning public release.
Let the Samsung Galaxy S4 Speculation Begin!
Now that the year-end smartphone season is winding down, it’s time to start dreaming up the next wave of high-powered handsets.
Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Human Rights Group Thinks So
As if deploying drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — on the battlefield wasn’t controversial enough, here’s an even more disturbing question: Should we allow weapon-wielding robots that can “think” for themselves to attack people?
Watch: Microsoft’s ‘Star Trek’ Universal Translator — Would It Have Downsides?
Microsoft may have co-opted Star Trek a full century early by demonstrating an honest-to-goodness universal translator.
Watch: Guy Uses Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg to Climb 103-Story Chicago Skyscraper
This is definitely from the future: a guy, using the power of his mind, literally, to control a bionic leg and climb a skyscraper in Chicago — all 103 floors.
Watch: How to Save the Earth from Killer Asteroids by Using a Paintball Gun
What’s the best way to knock a killer asteroid off a collision course with Earth? Ding-ding if you said “paintball gun.”
Watch: Humanlike DARPA Robot Climbs and Leaps from Obstacles with Mad Skills
Picture an eerily human-like tangle of metal, wiring and lights, cables dangling from somewhere above like puppet strings. Imagine it springing to life, lifting a long, lanky leg that bends 180 degrees at the hips.
Video: 10 Things You Should Know About the iPad Mini
Apple announces the long-rumored 7.9-inch iPad Mini. Here’s what you need to know.
Watch: What BioShock Infinite‘s New Trailer Tells Us About the Game
It’s amusing watching people describe the latest BioShock Infinite trailer as if developer Irrational were long lost and sending up a flare from the heart of some dark continent. Where did people think the game had gone? Did they …
The Halo 4 Launch Trailer: Do We Really Need ‘Live Action’ Trailers?
I don’t know how I feel about live action trailers. While they’re certainly movie-like and sometimes even well-directed, they’re exactly nothing like playing a game, or even watching one.