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May
23

Technology

V. Nice: Douglas Coupland And Gregor Robertson Introduce The V-Pole

Cellphone towers, parking meters, wi-fi terminals, streetlights, community message boards – there are a lot of tall installations cluttering up the view in any city, and Vancouver is no exception...

May
20

Music

VIDEO OF THE DAY: 'Game of Thrones' Theme Played By Machines

They may not be state of the art these days, but old-school floppy drives and computer equipment can still be put to good use...

May
16

Technology

Mind Over Muscles: Controlling A Robot Arm With Only Her Brain

For the last 15 years, Cathy Hutchinson has not been able to move her arms or legs. But now, thanks to a new robotic arm that she can control with her mind...

May
15

Technology

To Boldly Go: Can This Guy Build A Real Starship Enterprise?

One engineer believes we can build a working Starship Enterprise within 20 years, and he's laid out the physics, technology, and financial...

May
15

Technology

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Lawyers? Even In The Digital Afterlife?

Will human beings one day be able to upload our consciousnesses into a digital environment and continue existing after our physical bodies die?...

May
13

Technology

AWESOME THING OF THE DAY: Mapping All Of Earth's Vertebrate Animals

There are a huge number of vertebrate animals on Earth, and keeping track of where all of them are can be difficult...

May
11

Technology

Bootlegging Movies: Peer Pressure?

Maybe this guy needs a new peer group: a California man arrested for bootlegging Hollywood films and sharing them via P2P networks...

May
9

Sports

Standing Tall: Tech To Help Paralyzed People Walk Again

Thanks to new advances in technology, some people who have been paralyzed are able to walk again. A video that's making the rounds today is one example...

May
4

Technology

Q&A: How Does 'The Bloggess' Live Online? Surfing With Jenny Lawson

Jenny Lawson is an author and blogger best known for her site The Bloggess. Her first book is 'Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir'...

May
3

Technology

AWESOME THING OF THE DAY: This Is Your Brain Playing Pong

What do you get when you cross two students at Cornell University, a baseball cap, EEG-scanning electrodes, and one of the earliest arcade games? Brain Pong, obviously...

Apr
30

You may know in theory that pi - the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter - is an irrational number, with an endless stream of digits following its decimal, but have you ever tried to picture it?

Apr
27

Technology

TECH FOR SENIORS: Granny Nav, Biggie Smalls Tweets, Video Game Bowling

Seniors are the fastest-growing age group in Canada, a situation that's expected to continue over the next several decades...

Apr
24

Technology

Get Yer Rocks Off-World: Asteroid Mining Gets Closer To Reality

It sounds like pure science fiction, but a new initiative to mine asteroids for valuable natural resources is getting closer to reality...

Apr
23

Alt News

AWESOME THING OF THE DAY: The Biggest Tetris Game Of All Time (Except For That Other One)

Students at MIT turned a campus building into a giant, vaguely primitive video game recently, but they were surprisingly not the first to combine building windows with Tetris blocks ...

Apr
23