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Nov. 4, 1952: Univac Gets Election Right, But CBS Balks

1952: Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an amazingly accurate projection that the network...

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Robot Uses Its Tail To Land On Its Feet, Just Like A Cat

An engineering team has published a paper revealing that by giving a robot the right tail, it can always land on its feet -- just like a cat. The post Robot Uses Its Tail To Land On Its Feet, Just Like...

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Stanford Grads Get Most Startup Cash, Harvard Counts on Facebook Effect

Calling all soon-to-be college students and undergrads with time left to transfer: Your choice of school might affect how much investment capital you'll get if you start a business. The post Stanford...

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Video: Robo-Chopper Dives and Grabs Objects Like a Bird of Prey

Swooping down like a bird of prey comes the latest nightmare fuel from robotics researchers at the University of Pennsylvania: a claw attached to a drone that can grab things and carry them away. The...

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Your Future iPhone May Be Stuffed With Wax

Inside a research lab at the University of Michigan, there's an Intel chip covered in wax. It's a Core i7 microprocessor -- the same chip that runs many of today's desktop and laptop PCs -- and the wax...

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