Girls show increased interest and skill in STEM robotics program
By Sherri Ackerman, Times CorrespondentSherri AckermanTampa Bay Times In Print: Sunday, June 3, 2012 TAMPA The girls robotics team at Stewart Middle Magnet School didn’t even know how to program a Lego Mindstorms robot in March. A month later, they had designed a computerized control system that guided their robot through a…
Twitter Usage Doubles in a Year
Have you been tweeting more lately? Because a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that there has been a huge uptick in usage of the popular micro-blogging site. As of Feb. 2012, some 15 percent of online adults use Twitter, with 8 percent using it Pew attributed some…
Virgin lists WiFi enabled Tube stations
Yesterday the BBC took a look at the Virgin Media WiFi hotspots that are being rolled out across the Tube network in London. The WiFi hotspots would be made available to everyone during the Olympics, with access being charged for later on. Not all Underground stations will be seeing the…
Ikea Further Details Its Upcoming Uppleva HDTV Line
Watch out, Best Buy and Samsung. Ikea is seemingly doing to home entertainment systems what Apple did to portable electronics. The company previously revealed its upcoming entrance into the home theater market. As the video above clearly shows, Ikea is injecting a full dose of their Swedish magic into the…
Google smacks down Oracle as smartphone trial of century ends
San Francisco Oracle Corp. received another setback Thursday as a federal judge in San Francisco undermined a central part of the company’s multimillion dollar case against Google over its Android software for mobile devices. Oracle had accused Google of copyright infringement in using “application programming interfaces,” or APIs, that help…
Aptos High Robotics Club dives into international competition
APTOS – Predator plunged through the water, its mission to assess the condition of a sunken World War II oil tanker and the potential for environmental contamination. That was the scenario anyway. In reality, Predator, built by the Aptos High School Robotics Club’s Ranger Team and remotely guided by pilot…
TiVo shares drop on disappointing 1Q results, view
Shares of digital video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc. fell Thursday after its first-quarter loss and guidance for the current period were worse than analysts expected. THE SPARK: TiVo’s loss in the February-April quarter came to 15 cents per share, 2 cents worse than analysts predicted. Revenue topped expectations, but its TiVo had…
Continue reading Georgia Tech develops poultry deboning robot / chicken …
A Cut Above: Innovative Robot Uses 3-D Imaging and Sensor-based Cutting Technology to Debone Poultry Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a prototype system that uses advanced imaging technology and a robotic cutting arm to automatically debone chicken and other poultry products. The Intelligent Cutting and…
Foursquare and Amex join forces in UK to offer discounts
Foursquare has teamed up with American Express to launch a range of voucher-free offers in the UK. The partnership follows a similar tie-up in the US launched last June. Participating outlets are identified through the social network, and then users trigger savings by handing their Amex credit card to the…
Samsung Launches Galaxy S III in India
Samsung on Thursday launched its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone in India, according to reports. The latest release in the Galaxy lineup is priced at 43,180 Indian rupees, or $768, The Wall Street Journal reported. India is one of Samsung’s top three strategic markets, after the U.S. and Europe. Samsung intends…
