April 2008
Solving global warming with giant vacuums
Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University, said placing enough carbon filters around the planet could reel the world's atmosphere back toward the 18th century, like a climatic time machine.
Hackers hit one in 10 big companies: study
(via)Very large companies remain the main target for hackers and 20 percent detect hundreds of significant attempts to break into their network every day.
New technology for cameras, robots, medicine measures smiles
The breadth of a smile can be measured by new technology from Japanese electronics and health care company Omron Corp.
November 2007
Robots, lasers used to milk cows at Manitoba farm
Cows at the farm line up by themselves and enter an automated stall one by one. A laser identifies each cow by a tag on the animal's neck, telling the machine where to place the automated milking equipment.
Kindergarten and robots: Nyack has matched the two with good results
Nyack schools introduced robotics to middle-school students last year as an after-school class, then moved it into the classroom this year as a special component of the technology course.
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