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SUITA, Japan (AFP) - The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it's slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship.Published: 04/05/2009 at 05:00:21 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless unions at the money-losing daily agree to pay cuts and other cost-saving measures, the newspapers reported.Published: 04/04/2009 at 20:22:12 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - LIFE.com, the website of the defunct US magazine, has put online a series of previously unseen photographs taken following the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King.Published: 04/03/2009 at 19:32:07 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Friday following a report that Google was seeking to purchase the hot micro-blogging service that his goal was to build a "profitable, independent company."Published: 04/03/2009 at 18:25:41 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Adam formulates hypotheses, devises and conducts experiments, interprets the results and discovers new scientific knowledge -- all without help from scientists. The catch? Adam is no mortal, he's a robot.Published: 04/03/2009 at 16:15:41 GMT |
LONDON (AFP) - Angry residents of an English village blocked the driver of a Google Street View car who was filming the neighbourhood, saying they feared he would encourage burglaries, a report said Friday.Published: 04/03/2009 at 15:56:52 GMT |
HANOI (AFP) - Vietnam said Friday it had approved four telecoms to offer the country's third-generation (3G) mobile phone services.Published: 04/03/2009 at 05:53:35 GMT |
SYDNEY (AFP) - Chinese spies tried to infiltrate Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's email and mobile phone communications on his visit to Beijing last year, The Australian newspaper reported Friday.Published: 04/03/2009 at 02:15:54 GMT |
NEW YORK (AFP) - Canada's Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the popular BlackBerry handheld devices, reported strong quarterly earnings on Thursday despite the slowing economy.Published: 04/02/2009 at 23:38:54 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text messages on mobile devices.Published: 04/02/2009 at 23:38:42 GMT |
