startups, e-commerce, Artificial Intelligence Gregory T. Huang wrote: Among the current crop of ex-Microsofties building software startups, Emmanuel Marot is unique. Not just because he hails from Niort, a town in western France, by way of Paris (or for his impeccable fashion sense), but because he ...

The Grammy Awards are right around the corner, and figuring out the Grammy voters' somewhat lunatic hivemind is a Sisyphean task (Marc Cohn? Steely Dan? Jethro Tull?). When I need answers in times of great uncertainty like these, I turn to beings of superior logic: Robots. I brought together a round...

If there's one thing that still grates our nerves, it's automated calling systems. Or, more specifically, the robotic beings that simply fail to understand our slang and incomprehensible rants. IBM's working hard and fast to change all that, with a team at the company's Thomas J Watson research divi...

Mattel Mind Flex - Theta Wave Game Controller Originally uploaded by JoeDuck Mattel Mind Flex was one of the most remarkable devices at CES 2009.  Simpler but coneptually similar to the Emotiv headset expected to be out soon,  Mattel’s device measures brain theta waves and lets you control a...

Okay, this video is fucking creepy... and why does this inventor sound exactly like my brother Henry???? Devoted Aiko — “in her 20s� — has a stunning 32-23-33 figure, pretty face and shiny hair. She is always happy to clean the house for “husband� Le, help with his accounts or get him a ...

Software, Education, Paul Allen Luke Timmerman wrote: The days when any one person could be a credible expert on all the world’s scientific knowledge, capable of distilling complex data and concepts into a clear, understandable answer, are said to have ended with Aristotle. Now Paul Allen, the...

Every six months or so you will read something in the paper about a kooky new DARPA project where military scientists have outfitted wasps with nuclear warheads, or invented some kind of mind-reading goo or Cloak of Invisibility or whatever. Your semi-annual installment of freaky War Science News ha...

Space the Final Frontier, Nobel and Ignobel Prizes, Intelligent Machines, Jesus Sharks, Short Term Memory Loss, Why Justin’s Working On His Pecs, Warning For Bald Men, Girls Gone Math, and Another Bisphenol-A Study....

Filed under: Robots digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/GEF_robot_stomps_even_the_most_prolific_air_hockey_players'; Remember that GEF robot Nuvation showed off late last month? Yeah, apparently that thing is bad ass. Designed by General Electric Fanuc (GEF) and programmed by Nuvation Research, th...

There’s been a lot of talk on the statistics/machine learning/computer science blogs this week about an article in Wired called The End of Theory. Basically, everyone thinks the author, one Chris Anderson, has lost his damn mind. The piece argues that the enormous amounts of data available to ...