October 22, 2015 Google purchases UK startup DeepMind, expanding its reach in artificial intelligence Google says that it has purchased the British startup DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company founded by a 37-year old former chess prodigy and computer game designer.
October 22, 2015 300-pound robot is new breed of crime-fighting machine A Silicon Valley company has introduced what may prove the next generation in night watchmen – a 5-foot-tall, 300-pound crime-fighting robot designed to stand sentry in the wee hours of the night.
October 22, 2015 Laser gatling gun a real blast Patrick Priebe, a German hobbyist with a knack for making laser weapons, has done it again and this time he’s gone and built a Laser Gatling Gun.
October 22, 2015 Underwater robots used to find endangered whales Torpedo-shaped underwater robots called gliders can read calls from four types of endangered whales and relay their locations in real time. And they can do it in weather too harsh for the plane and boat surveys now relied on to find the whales.
October 22, 2015 Navy catapults unmanned X-47B aircraft for first time The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman slingshot an unmanned aircraft into the skies Thursday at a facility in Patuxent River, Md., the first of a series of shore-based catapult-to-flight tests over the next few weeks.
October 22, 2015 Dartmouth football introduces robotic tackling dummies to help curb concussions As the NFL tries (and constantly fails) to navigate around the growing problem of player concussions, an Ivy League school in New Hampshire has come up with a way to actively combat this risk of injury instead of, you know, just looking the other way.
October 22, 2015 Huggable, the robotic teddy bear for sick children, is now in Boston Children's Hospital In what is either a truly genius or entirely creepy move, a collaboration between the Boston Children's Hospital and M.I.T. has combined the nostalgic comfort of the teddy bear with the technological advances of the 21st century to produce Huggable, the robotic teddy bear that talks to sick children.
October 22, 2015 Chinese upstart takes lead in fast-growing drone market An amateur photographer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, drew crowds when he used a drone mini-helicopter made by China's DJI Technology Co. to capture images of historic church steeples and other ...
October 22, 2015 Tech Q&A: Facebook messages, app to skip Customs, battery life, and more Kim Komando answers your questions about Facebook's 'hidden' messages, apps used to skip the Customs line, conserving phone battery life, and more.
October 22, 2015 Hawk takes out quadcopter drone, reclaims the sky Wildlife 1, Technology 0. A Massachusetts man was filming his drone flying above a park when the attached GoPro captured an angry hawk dive-bombing the quadcopter and ultimately knocking it out of the sky.
