January 2011
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The Fourth Conference on Artificial General... →
Continuing the mission of the first three AGI conferences (most recently AGI-10, that was held at the University of Lugano, Switzerland), in August 2011, AGI-11 will gather an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in serious scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of artificial general intelligence.
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Hand-Cranked Marvell-Powered OLPC XO 1.75 Laptop... →
The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) XO hand-cranked laptop for kids recently drew a lot of controversy amongst users because it didn’t really work. Well, to be fair, the laptop part of it was fine and dandy but the actual hand crank (a major selling feature of the device which was designed with developing nations in mind) was never able to fully charge the device because it was powered by x86 AMD and...
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Robot Ball Controlled by Your iPhone – Video Games... →
Concerned mothers and congressmen have publicly lamented that children don’t know the difference between video games and the real world. Little did they realize that in the future there won’t truly be a difference. Case in point: Sphero from Orbotix. About the size of a baseball, Sphero is a rolling robot that you can control with your smart phone (iOS and Android) through an easy touchscreen...