I always imagined you would just sit in the car monitoring the systems while the computer drives the car around optimizing for vehicle speed and street coverage based on using the minimum amount of fuel necessary to document an entire region. Path optimization is routine in CNC machining, (although my Roomba hasn't…

If you look up flight 6132 on Delta's website, the plane was likely an ERJ145 - very small plane, one seat on the left, two seats on the right for about 18-20 rows, pretty loud inside, lavatory at the back, one flight attendant. I had one FA on one of these planes announce that is was a "Petite, yet Elite…

Lots of speculation about haptic feedback vs touchscreens, but I wonder how much of it is based on adult interactions, and ignore the generation of two-year-olds that are learning to manipulate an iPad before they learn to talk...

I think that was the point of the Chinese Hell painting that featured people drinking molten iron and having their genitals burst into flames.

I'm always puzzled by the movie-like quality of most net neutrality discussions. Just like the character that doesn't know what's coming because they've never seen a scary movie.

Gateway tried this and failed. Dell tried and failed.

As a previous commenter pointed out, Airbus routinely flies their aircraft right to the edge of the envelope at air shows to demonstrate that their flight computers won't let the airplane stall. This demonstrates two things for buyers - that Airbus advanced technology offers advantages over Boeing, and that Airbus…

Don't usually comment here, but I feel compelled. The news here locally is all over a story where a homeless man was beaten up pretty bad by Fullerton police, and died a couple of days later from his injuries.