Naval Research Lab Developing Autonomous Firefighting Robot
SAFFiR is a humanoid robot that would be outfitted with sensors and is being designed to interact with people and perform many of the dangerous firefighting tasks now done by humans. The latest eye-popping fire safety project from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is a humanoid robot firefighter, Donna McKinney…
Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali wins stage with solo breakaway; US rider Horner …
PRATI DI TIVO, Italy Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali won the toughest stage of the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race Sunday with an impressive solo breakaway on the uphill finish, while 40-year-old American Chris Horner retained his overall lead. After Horner accelerated, Nibali made his mover with 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) to go Nibali was…
Knicks guard Smith fined for risque Twitter photo
The NBA has fined New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith $25,000 for posting a photo of a scantily clad woman on his Twitter account. Stu Jackson, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, announced the punishment on Saturday. Smith appears to have eventually deleted the post but that didn’t…
Bella English: When your smartphone’s smarter than you are
What if you’re dumber than your smartphone? My husband gave me an iPhone 4S for Christmas. I was quite happy with my old, uncool flip phone, just like I’m happy with my old, frayed address book. But my husband had a 4S, and I think he wanted a Words with…
Jordan- Local firm to develop games for BlackBerry smartphone, PlayBook users
(MENAFN – Khaleej Times) Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has selected a local company to develop games for BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook users in the Middle East. Maysalward, a Jordanian company specialised in mobile and online games, will develop about eight games that will soon be…
Windows 8 refresh feature makes it easy to start with a clean slate
March 11, 2012, 8:40 AM One of the coolest features of Windows 8 is Refresh. Regardless of why you might want to start over, Refresh gives you a quick and easy way to start with a clean slate while also maintaining your apps, data, Windows settings, and user profile. I’ve always been a proponent…
Foursquare Moves Beyond Check-Ins
Foursquare, the company known for its location-based social app, is exploring a move that will put those roots in the background as it seeks to instead highlight the trove of data it has collected about its users’ habits. “We’re in the process now of disassembling the app,” said CEO Dennis…
The New iPad to Replace My Xbox? Ha! Fat Chance
Have you heard the news? Apple’s new iPad is launching on March 16, and the company and a few game developers think it might be the next big thing in video games. They claim that the device’s Retina Display and quad-core graphics, courtesy of the A5X processor, will be enough…
‘No. 6’ robot shoots hoops for Ramona
High school hoops took on new meaning over the weekend for some local teens, who built a robot that shoots basketballs. The 12 members of Ramona’s student robotics clubwhich meets at Ramona High School but is open to any high school student in towncompeted in the annual San Diego Regional Senior…
Virgin’s TiVo Slow-Mo: An iPad App, Two Years Later
Talk about “agile development”! Virgin Media has finally put a September 2012 launch date on the long-promised iPad controller for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top boxes – that’s almost two years after the app was first mooted. Summer 2010 Virgin Media said it would launch a rejigged version of TiVo’s U.S. Premiere…
