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Robot apocalypticists often presume that artificially intelligent beings will be all-too-eager to cooperate to destroy humanity. Which is...

Johnette Howard of ESPN has written a fascinating summary of the triumph and travails of Oscar Pistorius, the path-blazing runner who might...

As Farhad Manjoo explains, a company called Switch Lighting will soon ramp up production on an LED bulb that looks as warm and inviting as a...

This wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last : Three women from out of the country drove their car into Mercer Slough in Bel...

Mars rover Spirit is gone for good? Probably . Chronic Fatigue Syndrome caused by a rodent virus?? Probably not. Government funds ri...

Eugene Volokh points to a law.com article about one judge's attempt to keep Google out of the courtroom: Now that New Jersey courtroom...

This one's for Aaron. Sharpie has entered the game of "bust that ontology" with a a "liquid pencil." (As I under...

A work in progress. Your comments and suggestions are appreciated. Sticks and stones May break my bones But words will never hurt me. ...

Back when the National Forensic League was considering the use of computers in Debate, I wrote: In a 5-3-1 vote, the Council decided to all...

I pity young folks. Cursed with the most incredible technology, it's no surprise that they are online, or at least plugged in, more tha...

More fun in the field of evolutionary robotics: In one experimental condition, the arena contained only large tokens, and the only way for ...

I'm not sure I'm really sold on the idea that augmenting one's own reality makes one less of a machine. And I'm not sure t...

Last year, in the middle of some of the toughest budget decisions in recent Olympia School District memory, the District publicized a list o...

I'd love to know what late adopters like Christina think of Google's in-development " Fast Flip ." (Initial impression: n...

Word from a White House report says that 50% of Americans could contract H1N1 this coming autumn . The virus, clinically called H1N1, could ...

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Back in February, Slate's Fred Kaplan had argued that it was time for Congress to stop ordering new F-22 Raptors , later providing reas...

Memristors, a fairly recent discovery that I've blogged about twice previously , get the long form treatment in NewScientist . To Chua...

Nick Bostrom's " simulation argument " just got a little more plausible. The computing power that is now available makes it f...

1. Snohomish County emergency teams are tweeting. 2. Twitter's management team faces the future. 3. Tweeters--twitterers--should watch o...