Google’s PageRank algotrithm certainly has its detractors, among them people who feel that using links as ‘votes’ for a site’s importance isn’t the smartest way to get the best content. Unsurprisingly, librarians fit within this group, and they set out to determine what Google would look like if the weight of search results were powered […]
We’ve been hearing about this imminent technology for a while, but today researcher Xiaomei Jiang said that spray-on solar cells have been successfully tested as a power source for microscopic machines. Jiang and her colleagues used flexible polymer as a base instead of silicon, which is brittle. The researchers at the University of South Florida […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A US admiral wants American warships in the Middle East to be equipped with microwave “pain ray” cannons to avoid having to use deadly force. Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, in command of the US 5th Fleet, wants the weapons so they can be used against smaller boats at close […]
A lot of people, including me, think that mice are cute little creatures. But no one I know would like to have the little pests roaming free inside their home. Not only can mice contaminate your dry food stock and clothing with their droppings and urine, but they are also known to gnaw on electrical […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] You know what they say… when you’ve got lemons, turn them into lemonade. And when you’ve got rampant video piracy, find a way to milk some ad revenue out of it. The “fingerprint” technology that we’ve been hearing about from YouTube is making its way in some form to […]
Even though Halloween is a few days past, I thought you guys would appreciate this freaky-looking hexapod dancing robot. As you’ll see in the following video, this thing really knows how to groove! [Via Geekologie]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you were on Twitter yesterday, you might have noticed a flood of tweets with a mysterious “#wotw2” code in them. Well that was a “hash tag” or “hash code” you were seeing there and those tweets were completely fictional. The fake tweets were all on account of War […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] A new EU trade rule has caused one winery to become a bit more creative with its naming scheme. Peltier Stanton makes port wine, but unfortunately, only grapes grown in Portugal can be used in the official production of “port.” Other grapes of the same variety can be used, […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you’ve been following the election recently and happen to be a geek, odds are you get a bit of your news coverage from social networks. Well on November 4th, two of those networks, Digg and Twitter, will be coming together on Current TV to bring you an election […]
Robotics engineers at the University of Bristol, UK, have developed a super-creepy robotic talking head that can mimic many “human” facial expressions as well as generate synched speech lip movements. Fortunately for humanity, the bored robot doesn’t have a body yet. This is a good thing because, as it says below, it wants to wipe […]