The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
While my earnest distrust of robots will most likely never end, I’m willing to concede now that there might be some good uses for these mechanical beasts. My change of heart came after watching this video of a beer launching fridge that can hurl icy cold ones across the room with amazing accuracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAzMSM-7o4
Pretty cool, no? [...]
Ooh this evil Interweb, don’t you hate it so? What with the Internet predators, online scams and all the rest, at least the government bureaucracy is trying to do something about it. Earlier this week the Copyright Royalty Board, better known as NAMBLA, has decided that fees for online royalties need to double in size [...]
If you use WordPress blogging software you’ve no doubt already seen the warning on your dashboard, but in case you haven’t the news is that the latest version has been compromised by a dirty cracker.
It seems that someone gained access to the WordPress servers a few days ago and added some malicious code to the [...]
We all know that robots have the capacity to serve man and, well, To Serve Man, but this week we get an example of the former.
In robot crazy Japan researchers are hard at work teaching their bots to perform useful domestic and service-oriented tasks. (What, there aren’t enough gaijin around to do these things?) The [...]
From DailyTech:
Imagine swarms of small robots, working together autonomously, forming ad hoc groups to accomplish tasks too big or complex for a single bot. That’s precisely what some Swiss scientists recently achieved after programming a group of robots to mimic the evolutionary process found in biological colonies of insects such as ants or bees.
Oh, I [...]
