Georgia Tech building ‘Decepticons’

Via Fox News: The Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor took this crafty squirrel strategy and applied it to robots. His detailed research was published in this month’s IEEE Intelligent Systems, funded by the Office of Naval Research. Arkin’s robot...

Andrew Boz Bosworth Facebook Interview

Via Business Insider: When he’s not coding new features like News Feed, a once-controversial ticker of updates that’s now the core of the social network, he’s serving as the hardcore drill sergeant behind the appropriately named Bootcamp,...

Twitter’s Friends And Enemies

Via Business Insider: Since its earliest days, Twitter has depended on the kindness of strangers. Companies like Yahoo and LinkedIn lent a hand when it was just a fledgling startup, with little to its name but its unrealized potential. But now that it’s grown up...

Water In Our Solar System

Via Business Insider: In searching for worlds we humans might one day try to inhabit, the presence of water is among the most pertinent considerations. So where else should we be looking for water? How can we detect water on planets we can’t get to? And why is the...