Tag Archive | "computers"

Could Old Computers Fuel Your Car?

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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image from eurleif It’s always been an environmental hazard to toss out an old computer: there’s arsenic and mercury, and a host of other nasty things in the circuit boards that the technology depends on.  Think of all that waste trickling into a landfill – not a terribly [...]

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Russians Are Controlling Computers With Their Minds

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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Image from sofauxboho Pravda is reporting that a federal university is using a significant grant to explore the possibility of controlling computers by merely thinking what you want the machine to do.

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Ten Years Until Autonomous Robot Soldiers and Terrorist Robobombs

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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Deadly robots hold a special place in the heart of pop culture consumers. A Special Weapons Observation Remote Direct-Action System (SWORDS) robot. Even in some of their earliest appearances in the pulp novels of the 20th century, robots were often treated as evil killing machines. Decades of research into [...]

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