On Monday, the 2014 winners of the Google Science Fair, an international competition for 13- to 18-year-olds, will be announced. All the finalists are scarily impressive, but Kenneth Shinozuka, winner of the Scientific American Science in Action Award, st
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eBay is offering a way to get Black Friday deals without having to trample other shoppers. The online auction site is offering daily sales this week of all kinds of items, from tech to toys to clothing. The deals start on Thursday, and each lasts one d
Continue reading >>The rich get richer. And they also get more robots. Google confirmed Friday to The New York Times that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the Waltham, Mass., engineering company that has designed robots for the Pentagon. The company,
Continue reading >>Twitter has an eye on your location — and is testing ways to share it with other nearby users. The short-messaging service appears to be testing a new timeline for its mobile app, called “Nearby.” It shows recent nearby tweets, whether you follow t
Continue reading >>The Double robot takes the idea of telecommuting and videoconferencing to another level. A user working from home can wheel the robot around the office to have something of a physical presence. It is steered remotely via an iPad, iPhone or computer wi
Continue reading >>Google is now letting users create their own Street View-like virtual tours with a new feature that has been added to the company's Views website. Now, when users post 360-degree panaromas -- otherwise known as photo spheres -- onto the Views photo
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