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Microsoft Contest For Southeast Asian Businesses To Upgrade From Windows XP, Globally Ends Support For XP In 2014

Microsoft will pull support for Windows XP in 2014, hurry up and upgrade!

by Arnold Carreiro

Are you still using Windows XP as your personal or business operating system? It’s 2013, for goodness sake! You’d better upgrade before it’s too late…

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Xbox Tech Used to Make Bots

by Katie Gatto

A look at the way that video game technology can be used to help in the creation of robots. A new robot that is being worked out by a research team at Cornell Universit that is using the set of cameras and the ability to recorgize the movement of human beings of the Microsoft Kinect to make a new robot.

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Bots Buy More Tickets Than Humans for Big Shows

by Katie Gatto

According to new information, released by the folks over at Ticketmaster, the majority of tickets for the big shows are sold not to human beings, but to robots. These bots without a body seek out hot shows and buy the tickets, possible for the resale of the tickets to other concert goers.

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Get Your Own Poly-Bot Kit on Kickstarter

by Katie Gatto

When it comes to robots you can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in research labs. Or you could just get over to kick starter. If you make a sufficent donation to the Linkbot project you could just find yourself the proud owner of a set of blocks that can be linked together, or added to, in order to make a variety of robots.

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Can Shepard Robots Keep The Flock In Line?

by Katie Gatto

When it comes to herding sheep the job is usually done by dogs. One graduate student, currently at Harper Adams University College, has designed a UAV, or unmanned areal vehicle, in hopes of doing the job. The bot has been successful in the controlled tests. No one has asked the sheep what they think.

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US Asks for Killer Robot Ban

by Katie Gatto

A look how how the UN is hoping to prevent killer robots from making it onto the battle field. Following up after a recent report on the potential of killer robots on the fields of war, the US is asking all nations to take on a willing ban of the use of killer bots due to legal and ethical issues that surround the use of the robots in battle.

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Camouflaged Keyboard Cover Keeps Computer Keys Clean

by Steve Levenstein

Like your keyboard clean enough to eat off? Then you'll love Type Wipe, an elegantly designed yet unobtrusive cover that blends in with your laptop and can double as a place mat in a pinch.

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Robots Evolve!

by Katie Gatto

Nick Cheney, a current candidate for a PhD at Cornell University, has shown off some pretty cool research in robotics recently. He applied the idea of evolution to the bots. A single bot, which was fairly generic, was able to reproduce into several generations of more effective models. By using breeding to respond to a single selective pressure.

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Robot Octopus Swims Like Biological Counterpart

by Katie Gatto

A new octopus that is not biological swims the same way that a real one would. The bot, which was shown off at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), which takes place annually in Karlsruhe, Germany showed off the robot in a tank in order to demonstrate the swimming motion.

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HGST Travelstar 5K1500 Notebook Drive: 1.5TB in Slim 9.5mm Casing

by Rey M.L.

Most laptops support hard drives of only up to a 9.5 millimetre thickness, and before now the largest data capacity available within that thickness was one terabyte. For those select few who need more than that, HGST has arrived with a solution.

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