VOS PAPIERS ! – Deux étudiants américains ont développé un vrai Robocop. Telebot en démonstration le 12 février à Miami.
(AP Photo/WILFREDO LEE) Alors que le remake du film Robocop vient de sortir sur les écrans, deux étudiants du Discovery Lab de l’université internationale de Floride, fans de science-fiction, ont mis au point un robot de téléprésence, destiné à appuyer les forces de l’ordre. Son petit nom ? Telebot. La bête mesure 1,82 mètre pour 34 kilos. What is the appeal of Candy Crush Saga? Candy Crush Saga - the "match-three" mobile game - was the highest grossing app on both iPhone and iPad in 2013.
How did millions of commuters become entranced by a grid of brightly coloured sweets, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. Stand on a crowded commuter train in New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, or Berlin and you will see a multitude of people. Goldfish-mouthed, eyes glazed, deeply breathing, fixated on one thing only. Getting rows of red jelly beans or orange lozenges to disappear. The game is also immensely popular on Facebook, with the site hosting support groups for self-confessed addicts. Worldwide, Candy Crush Saga is estimated to make £610,000 ($1,000,000) per day from its users, according to Appdata. They buy add-ons, extra lives and access to higher levels. The hefty revenues have led to speculation that King, which has its HQ at London's Kings Cross, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) of shares in the US.
Mars One plans robotic mission; 200,000 hope to go, too. More than 200,000 people say they want to go to MarsThe first mission will be unmanned, planned for 2018 launchLockheed Martin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. are studying concepts (CNN) -- If you have ambitions of being one of the first people on Mars, listen up: A Dutch company says it is moving along with its plan to send four lucky Earthlings to colonize the Red Planet.
The catch: They won't ever come back. The Mars One foundation announced Tuesday that it has secured lead suppliers for an unmanned mission launching in 2018, which involves a robotic lander and a communications satellite. Lockheed Martin has been contracted to study building the lander, and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. will develop a concept study for the satellite, Mars One said. Where the Higgs. The Large Hadron Collider is located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, Switzerland.
This is CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation, which hosts a small museum about particle physics inside. The ATLAS experiment is housed underground nearby. The Higgs boson, the elusive particle that scientists had hoped to find for decades, was detected by two general-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, as scientists announced in 2012. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, pictured, is one of them. The ATLAS experiment, seen here in 2011, also detected the Higgs boson, a particle that helps explain why matter has mass. Much of three stories of electronics at CMS are involved in making split-second decisions about what data to keep and what to discard.
Google's New Sea Water Cooled Server Center in an old Papermill Factory in Finland. New 'invisibility cloak' type designed. 11 November 2013Last updated at 13:46 GMT By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News Many "invisibility" techniques actually make objects more obvious, not less, the researchers found.
Flying car technology is turning a dream into reality. 30 October 2013Last updated at 20:57 ET By Matthew Wall Technology reporter, BBC News The Aeromobil 2.5 prototype made its first public flight in October In 1940 Henry Ford famously said: "Mark my word: A combination airplane and motorcar is coming.
You may smile, but it will come. " Just nine years later Moulton Taylor had designed and flown his Aerocar, proving the viability of Ford's fantastical concept. But only three models were ever built, and the dream of a viable vehicle that can offer freedom both in the air and on the road has remained frustratingly elusive. Une zone blanche dans les Hautes-Alpes pour les électro-hypersensibles. IBM unveils computer fed by 'electronic blood' 18 October 2013Last updated at 13:05 ET By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News, Zurich Is liquid fuel the key to zettascale computing?
Dr Patrick Ruch with IBM's test kit IBM has unveiled a prototype of a new brain-inspired computer powered by what it calls "electronic blood". The firm says it is learning from nature by building computers fuelled and cooled by a liquid, like our minds. The human brain packs phenomenal computing power into a tiny space and uses only 20 watts of energy - an efficiency IBM is keen to match. Aujourd'hui, « J’aime ma boîte » Duolingo 'incubator' aims to crowdsource language teaching.
Duolingo's "incubator" courses will be free and include languages that many tools miss.
Language app Duolingo creating system for users to teach languagesThe "incubator" lets people fluent in two languages to team up on a courseA goal is to highlight obscure languages not taught as often as major onesThe tool is free to use, and contributors will not be paid. A computerized beer machine takes the legwork out of home-brewing. The $1,300 PicoBrew Zymatic claims to produce home-brewed craft beer, using just a downloaded recipe and a handful of ingredients.
But this Arduino-powered microbrewery isn't the only alcohol-inspired robot that could soon be making, mixing and serving your tipple of choice... A group of Belfast-based brewers are also building a beer-producing robot that aims to take care of all the complex heating and cooling, mixing and mashing required to make a pint. Brewbot have linked up a home brewing station and an iPhone to create a $2,400 beer factory capable of producing consistent, reliable brewing conditions -- so allowing brewers to experiment with new ingredients and recipes. US Army plans 'Iron Man' armour for soldiers. 10 October 2013Last updated at 07:22 ET The army wants soldiers of the future to be better equipped The US Army is working to develop "revolutionary" smart armour that would give its troops "superhuman strength".
It is calling on the technology industry, government labs and academia to help build the Iron Man-style suit. Other exoskeletons that allow soldiers to carry large loads much further have already been tested by the army. Diamonds may be hiding on other planets. This illustration is a fanciful idea of how a robot could mine for diamonds on Saturn. Carbon has multiple solid states, including diamond and graphiteOn Saturn, soot could turn into diamond at high temperature and pressureNo spacecraft has gone this far into the interiors of the outer planets (CNN) -- Move over, Lucy: Researchers say Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus may also be in the sky, with diamonds.
The atmospheres of these gas-ball planets have the perfect temperature and pressure conditions to host carbon in the form of diamond, say Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Pasadena, California, and Kevin Baines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their research was presented Wednesday at the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences conference in Denver. The technology modernising Kenya's matatus. 7 October 2013Last updated at 19:05 ET By Jonathan Kalan BBC News, Nairobi Free wi-fi is becoming increasingly available on Nairobi's matatus Matatus - the ramshackle public minibuses seating between 14 and 24 people that zip along the streets of Kenya's capital Nairobi - carry a third of the city's residents to and from work each day.
The journey from the city centre to the working-class suburb of Rongai takes between 45 minutes and two hours, depending on traffic. Yet inside the "Ferguson" matatu - named for its colourful images of the former Manchester United manager - half a dozen passengers seem oblivious to the length of their commute. Instead, they sit glued to their smartphones, checking the latest news, YouTube videos and catching up on emails. BBC Consumer - Data roaming charges: how to avoid big costs abroad. 3 October 2013Last updated at 09:09. Le père du Web et des géants d'Internet s'allient pour connecter les pays émergents.
Une étude indique pourquoi certains américains n'utilisent pas Internet. Aux Etats-Unis, le Pew Research Center a mené une étude afin de connaître les raisons pour lesquelles certaines personnes ne se connectent pas à Internet. Le premier argument invoqué est alors le fait que ce moyen ne présente aucun intérêt pour elles. Si Internet continue de toucher une majorité toujours plus importante de la population, certains restent rétifs au fait d'utiliser ce moyen de communiquer. 'Terminator' self-assembling cube robots revealed by MIT. 4 October 2013Last updated at 10:11 ET The research has been carried out by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Cube-shaped robots that can flip, jump and assemble themselves into different shapes have been unveiled by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The small robots, known as M-Blocks, have no external parts but can move using an internal flywheel mechanism.
23andMe's 'build-a-baby' patent criticised. 3 October 2013Last updated at 10:47 ET How ethical is it to build a perfect baby? A US patent for a database that uses DNA testing to tell prospective parents which traits their future offspring may inherit has been criticised by experts. 23andMe says its Family Traits Inheritor Calculator can predict the risk of inheriting specific diseases as well as details such as height, weight, eye colour and even personality. Couples send the firm a saliva sample to see what their babies might be like. But critics have called the project "ethically and socially treacherous". Designer babies The patent suggests the database could also be used by fertility clinics to find appropriate donors. Insolite : FlameStower, un chargeur USB qui fonctionne avec le feu.
Newsbeat - 'Growing trend' of cyberbullying on social networks. By Amelia Butterly Newsbeat reporter 2 October 2013 Last updated at 11:31 Share Cyberbullying affects more young people than previously thought, a new survey suggests. More than two-thirds of people aged 13 to 22 have been bullied online with boys and girls equally affected, according to charity Ditch the Label. One in five of the 10,008 who responded said that the abuse had been "extreme". Des élus réclament des drones pour veiller sur Marseille. 01net. Digital do-gooders: Why do we help strangers online? Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete a mistake. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is stepping down as chairman of the board of the company, the world's largest software company. PNY sort une clé USB rose et soutient la lutte contre le cancer du sein. « Vous critiquez Easyjet sur Twitter. Vous n’embarquerez pas! » Steve Jobs' childhood home may become historical site. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built their first Apple computers in the attached garage of this home in Los Altos, California.
Steve Jobs grew up in a single-story, ranch-style house in Los Altos, CaliforniaJobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers there in the mid-'70s (CNN) -- The family home where a young Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer may soon become a protected historical site. Tomorrow's cities: What's it like to live in a smart city? Digital Indians: Nandan Nilekani. Digital Indians: The story so far. Google spin-off Calico to search for answers to ageing. Hiroshi Yamauchi: Nintendo chief's video games legacy. Online anger 'spreads faster than joy' on Weibo. ÉNERGIVORE – Un iPhone consomme plus d’électricité qu’un réfrigérateur. La Floride veut éradiquer les moustiques avec des drones. En bref : bientôt une mémoire en cristal comme Superman.