Brandon Boys, Girls Club competes in robot event
By BY BARBARA ROUTEN | Published: March 28, 2013 BRANDON – The Bill Carey Boys and Girls Club of Brandon sent its Robosharks team to the Orlando regional contest of the 22nd annual FIRST Robotics Competition. The five contestants, chosen from 11 active team members, finished 26th out of 62 contestants, their best A celebration…
Ms. Splosion Man iOS out now, PC next week
Ms. Splosion Man brings her bewitching mixture of science and ‘splosions to iPhone and iPad today, with the iOS port available now for $2.99. Developer Twisted Pixel also revealed the PC port of the original XBLA game is due next week. The iOS version, developed by Iron Galaxy Studios, introduces six…
Google’s Self-Driving Robot Cars Are Ruining My Commute
My hometown, Mountain View, Calif., has become the unofficial capital of the robotic car revolution. Each day, I seem to run into one, two, or three self-driving Google (GOOG) cars. They’re on my freeways; they’re in my neighborhood; they’re taking my shortcuts. One time, five of the self-driving cars gathered…
California city launches free public WiFi to all residents
This week, Santa Clara broke some new ground by blanketing its entire city with free public WiFi. The public WiFi network spans across 19 square miles, covering the 118,000 residents that live in the city. The free public WiFi network is part of an electric meter upgrade program provided by John Roukema,…
Newton Foursquare Church hosting special Easter service
The Newton Foursquare Church will have a special Easter service beginning at 9:45 a.m. Sunday at the church, 1510 S. Eighth Ave. E. in Newton.The service will include an Easter message, special music and a time of worship. All are invited. Previous Page|1|Next Page There are 149 hours, 55…
Chirpy Twitter ad report perks up IPO prospects
The Twitter logo is displayed at the entrance of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.(Photo: Kimihiro Hoshino, AFP/Getty Images)Story HighlightsSan Francisco microblogging company is expected to haul in $950 million in ad revenue in 2014That’s up from eMarketer’s September forecast for $808 million in the periodMobile ad revenue is climbing, making…
Did Your Facebook Just Turn Red? That’s the Color of Our World Changing
If you’re on Facebook, there’s a lot of red on your screen today. And a bunch of equal signs as well. The Human Rights Campaign’s effort to turn attention to the Supreme Court’s hearing on arguments to overturn California’s anti-gay marriage legislation has turned viral, scooped up what seems like…
Meet Ropits, the Japanese robot car that drives itself
The Knight Rider dream of gliding around in sentient vehicles has taken a step closer to becoming reality this month with the launch of Hitachi’s new self-driving car. Designed less with fighting crime in mind and more with picking up the groceries, the Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System or…
MS Touts Education Wins For Windows 8, Office 365
12 Open Educational Resources: From Khan to MIT(click image for slideshow)Microsoft says 10 school systems and universities have signed up for major initiatives with Windows 8 and also reported picking up three new university customers for Office 365 Education, the education-specific edition of its cloud service. Windows 8 is coming to Atlanta The…
Professor Enlists Android Phones in Search for Black Holes
David Anderson wasn’t interested in the aliens. He was interested in a worldwide network of computers down here on Earth. Anderson is a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1995, one of his grad students suggested they pool the processing power from personal computers across “It…
