Picking things up is a surprisingly difficult task for robots, especially because the best gripper we know of—a human hand—is really difficult to imitate. ...

An anonymous reader writes "A proposal has been brought up with KDE developers by Cornelius Schumacher to merge the KDE libraries with the upstream Qt project. This could potentially lead to KDE5 coming about sooner than anticipated, but there's very ...

“In a world ruled by the dead, we a forced to finally start living” Hey bastards! It came, it went and totally kicked our ass. I am, of course referring to the premier episode of Frank Darabont’s ‘The Walking Dead’, AMCs ...

(Post by nerdbastards contributor Nick Bungay- Twitter @NickBungay) A few days ago the internet went nuts over what appeared to be a documented case of time travel. We too were getting our Nike’s ready trying to get obtain 1.21 gigawatts of power ...

By now we’ve all seen the picture of Chris Evans in the Captain America suit, but the Entertainment Weekly it graced the cover of also was accompanied with an article about the film as well and gave us some pretty ...

First off, I want you to read the title over again – “Everything is Illumenated.” What you may not have noticed is that there is a spelling mistake in the title. It should be “Illuminated,” but is “Il-LUMEN-ated.” Get it? Moving ...

An anonymous reader writes "We always knew that Spock was wise and would probably make a pretty good judge, so perhaps it's a good thing to see the Texas Supreme Court citing Spock in a recent ruling, noting his wisdom ...

A little over five years ago, Apple and Motorola were still buddies. Although Apple had famously announced its intention to drop the PowerPC processors ...

jhernik writes "The police are to receive training on how to use Facebook and Twitter to catch people committing serious crimes. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) will overhaul its training modules to include sessions on the social networking sites ...

                                    Happy Halloween! This is a short film/promo piece Steven C. Miller shot for Jamie Kennedy's company. They had a feature script that execs had ...

Triggering the bad flashbacks of PTSD: It's apparently possible to trigger flashbacks without resorting to any of the chemical hallucinogens that are famed ...

Pickens writes "G.V. Ramanathan, a professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, writes in the Washington Post that although a lot of effort and money has been spent to make mathematics seem ...

Here'e the link where you can go and listen to "Ninth Most Interesting Man", yeah go figure! On October 26th I was a guest on NBC affiliate KCAA Radio in Sanbernardino,Ca. talking all things horror and GeekTyrant. My interview is about ...

destinyland writes "Google announced they've searched for clues about the upcoming US election using their internal tools (as well as its 'Insights for Search' tool, which compares search volume patterns for different regions and timeframes.) 'Looking at the most popular ...

Ah, Halloween. How great are thee. Candy, costumes, and horror movies - you really can't go wrong. In vein of Halloween, I decided to watch Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus... Let me tell you, it's a masterpiece of epic proportions. ...

jamie writes "The GPL gives Apple permission to distribute this software through the App Store. All they would have to do is follow the license's conditions to help keep the software free. Instead, Apple has decided that they prefer to ...

Most know the Pillsbury dough nerd, Kevin Smith for his classic dick and fart films; like Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, etc. Well, unless you’ve been keeping up with the funny fat man he’s been ...

uyguremre writes "Honda is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its ASIMO, the world's most advanced humanoid robot. To mark this special occasion, Honda has launched a dedicated website hosting films and photographs detailing ASIMO's evolution over the past 10 years. ...

No tricks today; just the sweetest treats to get you ready for all that Halloween candy later tonight. :)First, a tribute to a classic:Submitted by Gabrielle K. & made by Erin SIt's the Great Pumpkin (Cake), Charlie Brown!A bewitching black ...

Jeffrey Goldberg writes for the Atlantic about his recent experiences with opting out of the back-scatter full-body scanners now being used to screen airport travelers. Passengers can choose to submit to a pat-down instead of going through the scanners, but ...

Ahoy kiddies- First of all, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Hope all you bastards have a safe, but slightly devious time! So, it’s Halloween, you know what that means? Before you shout out the now infamous tagline “If it’s Halloween, Then it Must ...

An anonymous reader writes "Google released a new version of the VP8 codec SDK on Thursday. They note a number of performance improvements over the launch release including 20-40% (average 28%) improvement in libvpx decoder speed, an over 7% overall ...

Earlier this month, we discussed news that Motorola had sued Apple, alleging infringement of 18 patents involving the iPhone, iPad, and other Apple devices. In response, Apple has now launched a pair of lawsuits alleging that Motorola is the infringing ...

An anonymous reader writes "Progress on metal-insulator-metal diode manufacturing was just reported online in the professional journal Advanced Materials (abstract). For the first time a high-performance 'metal-insulator-metal' diode was created with cheap materials. This is a fundamental discovery. It could ...

theodp writes "When asked to animate a dark commentary about labor practices in Asia's cartoon industry — the edgy title sequence for the Simpsons' episode 'MoneyBART' — staff from the South Korean production company Akom raised a rare protest. Even ...

Idiomatick writes "The CRTC ruled in favor this week for usage-based billing. Bell Canada was given a monopoly on lines in Canada, and in exchange they were made to resell to competitors at cost in order to have a functional ...

Okian Warrior writes "Aram Bartholl is building a series of USB dead drops in New York City. Billed as 'an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space,' he has embedded USB sticks as file cache devices throughout ...

Way back in the mid 90s’ (fuck time goes by quick) there was a very successful comic-book series known as Darkchylde. It was the story of a cursed teen, Ariel Chylde, who can become the creatures from her ...

With it being Halloween season and all, we've got an especially spoooooky edition of Release Notes for you. First-ever user-designed Doodle: You may have noticed that once in a while, we change our homepage logo to match a special occasion ...

Lucas123 writes "According to a report from a Japanese news agency, semi-conductor leaders Intel, Samsung and Toshiba are forming a development alliance to halve the size of chip circuitry in order to create more dense NAND flash chips and more ...

New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites: A new trojan named Boonana disguises itself as a link to a video ...

Lanxon writes "The Global Seed Vault opened in 2008 after engineers spent a year drilling and blasting through the sandstone, siltstone and claystone of the Norwegian Plat

Pickens writes "In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin made a promise: 'We believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.' ...

Andrew Smith writes "John Carmack has an article up on the Bethesda blog discussing the iPhone/iPad version of RAGE, which is said to run at an impressive 60fps. 'Managing over a gig of media made dealing with flash memory IO ...

Windows Phone 7 from an iPhone user's perspective : Most Windows Phone 7 early adopters will come to the platform after using a competing ...