ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The mere promise of Google Wave inspired a rainbow of potential use cases, but Wave's best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here's how to manage a group project in Wave. Note: If y (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The problem: The US Army—purveyors of all things camouflage green— thinks that spy planes are too slow to recognize remote battlegrounds. The solution: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles loaded with weaponized spy bots. The (Read More)
Popular Science - robots:
Having one of those days where even a hearty bowl of Fruit Loops and Jack Daniels can't get you out of bed? A telepresence robot can come into the office for you, elevating telecommuting to a decidedly new level. The somewhat (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Oh Best Buy, won't you save us from the legions of mediocre Black Friday deals that have leaked so far? Please? No, not really? Well, at least there are some great video game deals. * Indicates a doorbuster item Cell Phones A (Read More)
Lifehacker:
You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time. Sinc (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google has confirmed news today that bot herders gained control of Google Apps to feed commands to networks of infected computers. According to Arbor Networks, the bot herd was discovered over the weekend. After being notifie (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Media titan and News Corp czar Rupert Murdoch seems to be on a warpath against Google's spiders, particularly with regard to Google News' indexing of News Corp items.In an interview today with Australian media outlet Sky News (Read More)
Engadget:
We've seen mixtures of Roomba and Pac-Man before, but nothing like this. A team of developers have hacked five floor-cleaning bots to create a sort of OCD version of the game, with the Pac-Man bot sucking up little white rect (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Jeff Smykil, Writer, Ars TechnicaIf you are Paul Haddad of TapBots, LLC, it isn’t unusual to get requests for contract work. When your applications are as eye-catching and functional as his, you garner attention. So when h (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
An Indian engineering graduate, Pulkit Gaur, has developed a robot that can go underwater and clean water or chemical tanks. This project is developed by Gridbots, an entrepreneurial venture by Gaur, this low-cost robot will (Read More)
Ars Technica:
If you are Paul Haddad of TapBots, LLC, it isn't unusual to get requests for contract work. When your applications are as eye-catching and functional as his, you garner attention (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
Japan’s legions of robots, the world’s largest fleet of mechanized workers, are having a tough time finding work as the country suffers its deepest recession in more than a generation. Here, robots work on new vehicles at a N (Read More)
Popular Science - robots:
Robot diggers successfully completed a timed trial for the first time at NASA's lunar dirt excavation challengeRobots have finally risen to meet NASA's moon dirt digging competition after three years of failure. Three robotic (Read More)
Engadget:
Given the choice of either a stack of hot, steaming pancakes slathered in butter, brown sugar, and maple syrup or a six-pack of Fanta, we know which we'd choose. So, perhaps its proof of robots' continued subservience to man (Read More)
Engadget:
There are three things in this crazy world that scare the living daylights out of us: poor battery life, scratched screens, and seven-foot tall she-bots wielding Pres like concealed weapons. This, it seems, was the nightmaris (Read More)
Delicious/oliverg:
After all the cussing and pleading, I finally got a Google wave invite just 2 days back. Even though I had gone through all those sexy video tutorials explaining what Google Wave is, I couldn’t figure out what I am supposed t (Read More)
Popular Science - robots:
Like most Army commanders, Lt. General Rick Lynch says that he needed more troops in Iraq, and that they would have saved the lives of men lost under his command. Unlike most commanders though, Lynch isn't demanding flesh and (Read More)
Popular Science - robots:
A tiny camera will be swallowed by patients and inspect their intestinesPeople who dislike having medical cameras snake through their body on the ends of long tubing now have a fun alternative. A new remote-controlled spider (Read More)
BBC:
Last week, I promised to kick the tyres of Google's shiny new collaborative communications tool Wave - and to let you know how it looked. Well, sorry for the delay - but it took days for the invitations I'd sent to friends an (Read More)