At a recent robotics competition in Boston, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple was one of the judges. We caught up with him and asked him some questions on a variety of topics.
Toshiba's prototype robot can control devices in your living room. The robot, called ApriPoco, learns from users and then can act on their command. Toshiba hopes to commercialize ApriPoco one day.
In this week's 5-minute recap of the week's technology news: YouTube is blacked out in China; Intel dreams of future mobile devices; the world loses Arthur C Clarke; Intel expands Classmate sales; Vista SP1 is ready and new cameras from Tokyo's Photo Imaging Expo.
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its Compaq 2133 ultraportable laptop, which uses a C7-M microprocessor from Taiwan's Via Technologies instead of a chip from Intel.
In this week's edition of World Tech Update: Bill Gates appeals to lawmakers for more H-1B visas, the EU approves the Google-DoubleClick merger, AOL buys Bebo, the safety of hands free cell phones comes into question, implanted brain chips control computers, new Atom-based notebooks are coming, and more gadgets from last week's Cebit.
After researchers at Princeton University showed how they could dig up the contents of a computer's memory just minutes after the machine had been turned off, it was only a matter of time before hackers began showing how this technique, called a cold boot attack, could be used in the real world.
Intel unveiled an updated version of its Classmate PC laptop at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shanghai, but changes made to the device are largely cosmetic -- at least for now.
On the eve of the RSA Conference a San Francisco gallery unveiled an exhibit called Infected Art. It's a collection of images created from the code of various viruses, worms, spam, and other malware.
BrainGate is a new technology where a chip is implanted in the brain that picks up electrical impulses. A computer then interprets those impulses as actions.
In this week's show: the EC approves cell phones for airplanes, HP's 2133 competes with the Eee PC, computer viruses make art, US Homeland Security Secretary keynotes at RSA, Europe's Galileo is moving forward and you can now send smells.
Bill Gates told US law makers on Wednesday that the country is driving away the world's best engineers and computer scientists by putting limits on H-1B visas and other immigrant worker programs.
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