Bill Detwiler

Exhibition on the application of artificial intelligence in robots is part of the jointly held 2006 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 2006 Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Spider-Man and other Marvel characters will soon be available in Planetwide’s Comic Book Creator software.

Satellites keep watch over the earth to monitor the progress of forest fires, and can even give first responders early alerts.

Japanese company unveils machines powered by Intel’s dual-core Itanium 2 chip, known as Montecito.

When you want to know what’s happening on your network, systems, or applications, but not install a auditing software, Linux (and BSD and occasionally Windows) distributions “Live CDs” can help. Live CDs are OS distributions on a CD- or DVD-ROM that you can boot and run directly from the CD and RAM, without installing anything to the hard drive. In a Right Tool for the Job blog post, David HM Specter explains how you can perform security audits using the Backtrack Linux Live CD. This gallery shows you several of the Backtrack tools in action.

Submitted by David HM Specter

These images help illustrate the magnitude of the Gigapxl Project’s ultra-high-resolution Portrait of America.

Computer the size of a shirt button sticks on photos, documents and cards.

The Commodore PET 2001 was the first fully integrated computer from Commodore. Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-Computer.com, takes you inside the Commodore PET 2001.

With a hack saw, a glue gun and a few hours of free time, you too can build a homemade iPod boom box.

European Space Agency says Galileo navigation satellites will be five times more accurate than United States’ system.

Flat-screen TVs are bigger than ever. Take a look at some of the larger offerings in a fast-growing market.

Digital rotoscoping puts Philip K. Dick adaptation in a drug-induced haze.