Technology - general
Professor disputes claims of computer passing Turing Test
14 Jun 2014
An Imperial College professor has disputed the claim of a computer pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy had passed the Turing Test
Sailor teams up with researchers to make zero-carbon yacht
13 Jun 2014
A British sailor is teaming up with researchers from Imperial to develop a zero-carbon energy system for the yacht he aims to race around the world
Does 'free will' stem from brain noise?
12 Jun 2014
Rising CO2 poses significant threat to human nutrition: Harvard study
By By Todd Datz | 07 Jun 2014
University of Michigan building fake city to test self driving cars
07 Jun 2014
The fake city would be dubbed an “automated vehicle testing site facility” and operated by the university’s Mobility Transformation Center
Chimpanzees show similar personality traits to humans
03 Jun 2014
Chimpanzees have almost the same personality traits as humans, and they are structured almost identically, according to new research
Researchers create tractor beam in lab
02 Jun 2014
Think fast, robot
30 May 2014
Improving a new breed of solar cells
By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 29 May 2014
Solar-powered roads to generate power
28 May 2014
A prototype power system using solar road panels to generate power, melt snow in the winter, offer embedded LED lighting and display driver alerts is being tested in the US
Graphene to make large scale electricity storage a reality
27 May 2014
Graphene – the world’s thinnest material isolated – could make batteries light, durable and suitable for high capacity energy storage from renewable generation.
Mumbai restaurant uses drone to deliver pizza
23 May 2014
The drone used for delivering the pizza cost around $200 for the experimental delivery and consumed less than 65 watts energy, or equal to that consumed by a small light bulb