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Can the Dutch do reality TV in space?

It’s either one of the biggest hoaxes in history conjured up by a group of richly deluded young fantasists or a brave attempt to challenge...

Tactile robot finger outperforms humans in identifying textures

We’ve seen the development of a number of technologies that could be used to provide robots with a sense of touch, such as proximity and...

Minecraft to Add Rudimentary LAN Feature

Like a debater dropping the mic after a particularly burning argument, Mojang’s Jens Bergensten dropped some information about a rather exciting upcoming feature to Minecraft:...

Google reports alarming rise in censorship by governments

There has been an alarming rise in the number of times governments attempted to censor the internet in last six months, according to a report...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Competitive RTS Gaming

I barely slept during the weekend of the Major League Gaming Spring Championship. I stayed up until three in the morning every night, watching pro...

Smartphone users risking health with overuse of devices

It says people have become "screen slaves" and are often working while commuting or after they get home.   The society said poor posture in...

Bringing Back Those Halcyon Space Days, With Men to the Moon and Beyond

With all the noise around SpaceX and Elon Musk, what with the recent successful docking with the ISS and all, it’d be easy to forget...

Microsoft Announces Its First Real Tablet: The Surface

The family will be called the Surface, the same as its conceptually-cool-but-practically-impractical tabletop touch computer. It’s actually a very interesting product–the capabilities of a full...

Future Sky City Skyscraper: apartments for 174,000 peole and 104 elevators

Reach for the sky: the world’s tallest buildings, once the 838-meter Sky City is completed, projected for January 2013. The Wall Street Journal had some...

DARPA asks:

DARPA Unleashes the Mother of All Geek Memes Twitter answers the question "What technology from science fiction would you most like to see as science...