Technology

Issues of “mind uploading” and “machine intelligence” have been in the tech. news of the futurist variety lately which got me thinking about these concepts and led me to write this blog post on the…

Are we on the road to uploading our brains to computers and living forever?  Singularity proponents require a two-pronged approach to believing so; wildly overstating the technology curve of…

Researchers have been able to photograph the shadow of a single atom for the first time. And this absorption imaging took five years of work. They basically wanted to investigate how few atoms…

Since "The Avengers" is a giant movie this year, when you think of something that shoots lightning, you might think of Thor.  If so, perhaps your clever joke would be "Can we name that Laser-…

Is it possible to lose at Rochambeau, the millenia-old game of Rock, Paper, Sissors, every single time? It shouldn't be but a new Janken robot (Janken is the Japanese name for Rock, Paper, Scissors…

Is the world ready for a robot DJ? Sometimes you have to be bold.  People laughed at Microsoft when they introduced Microsoft Bob too; people didn't know they needed a graphical image of their…

Over the past fifty years there has been a growth in radio technology that has completely changed our lives at many levels including our personal lives, the way we educate our kids, how we do science…

A report from market research agency Conquest into the social media habits of 14-24 year olds claims that Facebook's core audience - teenagers - are starting to fall out of love with the website and…

To understand the current developments in technology, one has to understand the progress of science.  The ultimate goal of science has always been to understand nature firstly and then to make…

AMSTERDAM, June 13, 2012  -- Elsevier has added a new enhancement to SciVal Strata, a web-based performance evaluation tool that allows users to conduct highly customized performance assessments…