Ultimately the DDU may be able to diagnose a wide range of illness While Star Trek-style multifunctional medical “tricorders” are still in the realm of sci-fi, scientists at the... Read more
The days of a Universal Translator like the one that made communication between alien species a non-issue in Star Trek might be some way off yet. But a new device from NEC is definitely a st... Read more
Image via Wikipedia People are social creatures. Robots … not so much. When we think of robots, we think of cold, metallic computers without emotion. If science fiction has taught us anythin... Read more
Recently, in writing about a DRM scheme, I used the analogy of the Star Trek food replicator to explain why it made no sense to turn infinite goods, like content, into artificially scarce go... Read more