Here are a couple points to ponder:

Fun fact #1: California prison guards are expensive.

Fun fact #2: South Korea’s getting robot prison
guards.

I’m sure the prisoners welcome their new robot overlords, but I bet the prison guards union doesn’t. Or … Continue reading →

Robot locomotion doesn’t seem very natural so far — and there’s almost an “uncanny valley” for how some robots move that make them look undead. But it won’t be long before robots are moving more fluidly. Here are just a few projects that are developin… Continue reading →

We recently wrote about an unintentionally hilarious video from a bunch of Viacom employees, begging the government to censor the internet, or warning that SpongeBob might not exist any more. The whole thing was full of bogus moral panics, misundersta… Continue reading →

It’s pretty firmly established that acclaimed author Ray Bradbury is a bit of a technological curmudgeon (understatement alert). Way back in 2001 we wrote about an interview where he bitched about the internet, and how it was really a big scam perpetr… Continue reading →

Over the last year or so, we’ve been one of the few publications out there following the exceptionally questionable use of NBC propaganda material by the federal government as if it were its own content. You may recall that NBC Universal created some … Continue reading →

An interesting article by Grant Gross over at PC World notes the hypocrisy of many in Congress who screamed loudly about how net neutrality was a dangerous attempt by government to “regulate the internet,” but are now the main supporters of SOPA. We a… Continue reading →

The price at which labels want to sell music and the price customers are willing to pay are often two totally different things. Yet, as we talk about this price disparity, we very rarely consider the price at which the artist wants to sell the music. T… Continue reading →

We’ve talked about CreativeAmerica, the astroturfing group set up by the major Hollywood studios, pretending to be a “grassroots effort” in favor of SOPA & PIPA. A month ago, we challenged the group’s claim that it had “sent 100,000 letters to Co… Continue reading →

With the growing public sentiment against SOPA/PIPA, it seems that some of their dislike of these bills is coming back to bite tech companies that have lobbied in support of the bill. It appears that some have been combing through OpenSecrets, and dis… Continue reading →

Mark Shuttleworth is probably best known for three things. Selling the certificate authority Thawte Consulting to VeriSign for about $575 million in 1999; using some of that money to become the second self-funded space tourist; and using some more of … Continue reading →