Tag: technology

LONDON — Researchers say delusions and other symptoms of schizophrenia may be caused by a faulty “switch” in the brain, preventing people from knowing what’s real.

Microsoft is offering free Xbox One development kits to approved video games makers to encourage small teams to make titles for its forthcoming console.

Founded in Morocco but now based in California, Laraki Motors unveiled the Laraki Epitome at Pebble Beach. Powered by a reworked 7-liter V-8, the $2 million Epitome can deliver anywhere from 1,100 hp to 1,750 hp — and designer Abdesslam…

The recent Hyperloop announcement by Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA  ) CEO Elon Musk has spurred a lot of conversation about the future of travel. But while Hyperloop technology may be years away, some really cool car technology is already on the…

A University of Colorado Boulder research team has moved closer to what some call the Holy Grail of a sustainable hydrogen economy — splitting water with sunlight.

Researchers have found no link between the number of drivers making phone calls while on the road and the number of accidents recorded.

Japan has launched the world’s first talking robot into space to serve as companion to astronaut Kochi Wakata who will begin his mission in November.

If Back to the Future II got it right, by 2015 flying cars will be whizzing across the skyways of America — in towns even as sleepy as Hill Valley. In reality, the marketplace won’t have a Hovercraft in two…

SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — On a windy morning in California’s Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, refrigerator-sized contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the…

The Solar Impulse plane has landed at New York’s JFK airport, completing the final leg of a journey across the US on solar power alone.

Two astronauts will work outside the International Space Station for 6 1/2 hours on Tuesday, and you can follow all the free-floating action live.

The number of aircraft flying and taking off in southern England has been restricted because of air traffic control computer problems.

The contact-lens-and-spectacles combination magnifies scene details by 2.8 times.

ROBOTS REPRESENTING GERMANY have triumphed in this years medium sized Robocup, a sporting competition for, well, medium sized robots.

A museum in Sweden will digitise its mummy collection in 3D to allow visitors to unwrap a real mummy in digital form.

Doctors h Doctors are reporting a major step toward an “artificial pancreas,” a device that would constantly monitor blood sugar in people with diabetes and automatically supply insulin as needed. A key component of such a system — an insulin…

At the Global Future 2045 conference (GF2045) in New York City on June 15-16, 2013, emcee Philippe van Nedervelde said, “It used to be that the only sure things are death and taxes.