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...
View ArticleRobot 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...
View ArticleStanford 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...
View ArticleVideo: 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...
View ArticleYour 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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