Let's move onto something a little more serious for a moment. There's a device that the New York Times highlighted yesterday called the ADE 651. It's a small, hand-held explosives detector, or so claims the company behind it, the UK-based ATSC. It's being heavily used in Iraq, and officials there swear by it. Meanwhile,...
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By Chris Scott Barr
There are some debates that all geeks seem to have with their friends. Star Wars vs Star Trek, Pirates vs Ninjas, Windows vs Mac, etc. One that tends to come up in my circle is which will try to take over the world first, zombies or robots. Well here’s a little...
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Those of you who follow the Robocalypse tag know that I find the rise of machine-based warfare and biomimetic freakery... troubling. Well, it just got a lot more so. Not content to have robots simply feed on widely available sunlight, or use an versatile diesel engine or something, some robo-pioneers have decided that this...
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