The future of computing

You have to watch this. Amazing stuff. More info at Gizmodo, here.

The Great Robot War Begins!

I can't really beat Gizmodo's post on this: "Scratch another one on the checklist for Humanity's ultimate self-destruction. A Warrior-Alpha drone from the US Army's Odin Task Force fired against enemy forces with no pilot." A drone is a robot; e.g. the plane not only has no pilot, it has nobody at all in it (hence no need for a window, as you can see). More on Gizmodo, although there seems to be a lot of debate there about whether this is really the first time a robot plane has fired a weapon in a real war.

The end of TV.

Today CTV (a big Canadian TV station) announced that they will lose $100 million this year, and write down their assets by $1.7 billlion, 3/4 of their previously-listed value. They also announced "Since we now lose significant amounts of money in conventional television, it is clear that our company would be in a better financial position if we closed our conventional television operations.", though they aren't planning (yet) to do that.

We are witnessing the beginning of the end of TV (but we are witnessing it on the Web).

Cool but scary military robot