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F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. Would he have changed his mind if The Great Gatsby had received the 3-D IMAX treatment -- with Jay Gatsby as an alien bootlegger and Nick Carraway as avenging Ivy League superhero? After burning bright and flaming out fast in the 1...
"Avatar" director James Cameron is working with NASA on two 3-D cameras that could be used on the next Mars rover, known as "Curiosity." Earlier this month, Malin Space Science Systems delivered two cameras, known as "MastCams," that are similar but lack the 3-D capabilities. If the new pair develop...
Is it abnormal to love robots? Do people who love robots, adopt them as friends or members of the family, give then names and bring them along on family vacations have an unnatural fixation on robots? What about soldiers who are prepared to give their lives for their units' bomb detector robots? Is ...
The market is in a planning cycle, and analysts are being asked to take a look in their crystal balls and describe what 2013 will look like. Clearly, we will have more bandwidth, 3-D TV will be ramping, and most of us will either be using tablet devices for something or moving to the next big thin...
IBM researchers in Switzerland said they've come up with a patterning technique that lets them create structures as small as 15 nanometers. One nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter. In comparison, a human hair is between .03 and .25 mm thick. Using the nanopatterning technique, the researchers h...
Robots haunt our art and our dreams. Science-fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a whole series of novels around the idea of robotics -- the "Robot" series, one of which was made into the movie "I, Robot." The "Terminator" movies were all big hits, and science-fiction series such as Britain's "Dr. Who...
I'm writing this from the Volkswagen/Audi event at Stanford University in California where the German Chancellor is presenting the first robotic car designed to race, without a driver, up Pikes Peak. The event is to open the Whale; the Stanford Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory, which, so...
As city administrators grapple with the notion of tying all their apps into one overarching network, should they be looking to open source as an alternative to apps from vendors? Enterprise-level open source apps exist, and are used both by the federal government and by large corporations. For examp...
The DC federal court of appeals didn't actually bring about the death of Net neutrality. Hopefully, all it's done is bring about the death of the phrase "Net neutrality." I write about technology, and I'm already tired of hearing those words and writing them. Not the concept behind it, mind you, or ...
People can easily fold towels, but getting robots to do that has been a real challenge. That's because the robot requires a complex combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning in order to make an orderly stack from a jumbled pile of towels. However, a research team ...
Cities, like other large organizations, will move increasingly toward virtualization and the cloud in order to save money on infrastructure. In fact, many city governments have already implemented Google Enterprise. When problems occur in cities with automated programs, who's responsible? The city a...
Japanese electronics giant Sharp on Friday unveiled a liquid crystal display touchscreen that lets viewers see three-dimensional images without special glasses. That announcement kicked off speculation that the screen will be used in Nintendo's forthcoming 3DS game console, which will have the same ...
I've seen some amazingly great movies in the last few weeks. I was at Disney World to see "Alice in Wonderland" in IMAX 3-D and watching that movie on a Disney property for this ex-Disney employee was truly magical. Last week, I was at DreamWorks to see "How to Train Your Dragon," and the movie ...
Nintendo on Monday announced that it will release a new model of its DS handheld console that can play 3-D games but won't require the user to wear special glasses. This device is due by early next year at the latest. The move may give Nintendo's DS an edge as the video game and entertainment market...
As the United States military increases the use of robots like unmanned drones in battle, it increases the danger that our enemies will take and adapt the technology to use against us, according to Peter Warren Singer, senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brooking...
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