Sandia Labs' tiny Marv robot. WASHINGTON - The Smithsonian Museum of American History on Tuesday added a number of robotic technologies to its collection, including what may have been some of the smallest robots in the world.
NASA has given up on the hope to build a 3D camera for the next robotic rover that the space agency will send to Mars.
The music industry's contention that file-sharing software maker LimeWire owes it trillions of dollars in damages for enabling the illegal distribution of 11,000 copyrighted songs is "absurd," a federal judge has ruled.
Months before the nuclear disaster started to unfold in <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214458/Continuing_coverage_Quake_rocks_Japan?source=toc">earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan</a> , scientists in the U.S. started a project using the latest computing technology and complex modeling software to better determine potential consequences of such calamities at nuclear plants in this country.
Long before the nuclear disaster in Japan began unfolding this week, scientists in the U.S. have been trying to gain a better and more realistic picture of precisely what would happen if a similar accident occurred in this country.
Health Net, a provider of managed health care services, yesterday said that it's alerting some 1.9 million customers that nine server drives containing personal and health data were recently discovered missing from a data center in Rancho Cordova, Calif.
With 38 computer processors and working arms and hands, the humanoid robot onboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery is expected to be the centerpiece of a dramatic step forward in the evolution of humans and robots working together in space.
The humanoid robot taking off in NASA's space shuttle Discovery tomorrow afternoon could get a companion in a few years when the Japanese Space Agency plans to send its own robot to the International Space Station.
A <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205885/Sony_sends_dangerous_message_with_PS3_lawsuit_says_EFF">hacker sued by Sony</a> for jailbreaking its PlayStation 3 game claims that he's raised enough money to begin his defense efforts just two days after launching an online appeal for donations.
Internet traffic in Bahrain, the Persian Gulf kingdom wracked by a third day of protests, has declined by about 20%, likely as a result of more aggressive government filtering, a Web security company said today.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The time to act on cyberwar is now, several experts at the RSA Security Conference held here this week said.
Stuxnet infected its first target just 12 hours after hackers finished the worm, an indication that the malware scored an almost instant bulls-eye, a researcher said today.
Yasser ElKady, head of Egypt's Information Technology Industry Development Agency. (Image: PRNewswire) As protests in Egypt continue, the head of the Egyptian government agency charged with developing the nation's tech sector, Yasser ElKady, has been heading into work, speaking on conference calls with tech firms, and planning for the future.
Egypt returned to the Internet earlier today by reversing the "kill switch" move it made last week when it withdrew router announcements, experts said.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will soon begin testing new software designed to better protect the privacy of individuals passing through its full body scanners at U.S. airports.