LAS VEGAS — The International Consumer Electronics Show, which starts here Thursday, is arguably the world’s largest toy store for adults.
Our regular roundup of sci-tech stories from across the Web includes: Should electric cars get new federal funds? What should you know before powering up your new computer? Should we look back on 2008 as a good year for technology? Let’s kick it off:
From YouTube to Flickr, from Facebook to Twitter, images and sentiments from celebrations across the nation flooded into the Internet's media-sharing sites, just moments after Barack Obama clinched the presidential election.
For Westerners, it is the device that has launched a thousand euphemisms: the water closet, the loo, the john, the can. Its existence is about function – one that is best left as unacknowledged as possible.
This is a really cool looking quad-rotor flying vehicle. It uses a Parallax Propeller chip to handle all the complex tasks of flying and remote control. I really like the sound it makes when it lands at the end of the video.
EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr.
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