BP has leading experts formulating solutions, and is there a greenhorn (or many) in the room? Getting the opinion of the subject matter experts is reflexive in any problem solving situation, but what about the absolute amateurs? READ»
Find hope in this, NASA, science and Mars fans: President Obama's new stance on NASA's funding will likely pump no less than $6 billion into the agency to create a new heavy rocket sooner than we'd hoped. Mars is its ...READ»
NASA astronauts, spacewalking outside the International Space Station, have just finished installing what's likely to be the best viewing platform ever: A multi-windowed observation deck that offers Earth views from low Earth orbit. ...READ»
You know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control computers with your ...READ»
Vodafone U.K. has done something astonishing, something very uncharacteristic of a cellphone operator--it made things much cheaper for its users. Specifically, the mobile network operator is experimenting with totally abolishing ...READ»
Microsoft gave a public showing of its futurologist vision of 2019 the other day at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, and it's set the interwebs a-quiver with excitement. But if you have a bit of think about it, it's ...READ»
Making a PC generate sounds that resemble human speech is relatively simple. But making a machine sound convincingly human is very tricky. Yet IBM claims to have coded a synthetic voice that is the more similar to a human voice than ...READ»
Another great bringer of inspiration has passed. Arthur C. Clarke was the author of several famous science fiction works, from 2001 to Rendezvous with Rama. I have written that Gary Gygax inspired others to creativity. Clarke did ...READ»
Yesterday America Online announced that in the next month they will be offering VoIP, or voice over internet protocol. Such internet phone services have been much cheaper than your typical land line.
Could this mean a re-emergence ...READ»
