Another landmark today for what must be one of 2012’s most successful new technology products, the Raspberry Pi. You’ve seen Apple’s App Store, Google Play and Amazon and Windows online shops for apps? Well, now there is a Pi Store.

The people behind the ultra-cheap computer have decided to harness all that geek enthusiasm sparked since the Raspberry Pi’s launch in February and create a one-stop shop where anyone can share games, applications and tools developed for the computer.< … Read More → "The Pi Store opens"

On this day in 1947, the Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber took to the skies for the first time.
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Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann want you to make architecture with robot arms.

For decades, robots have been used on assembly lines to do things like make cars and package food. Over a long period of refinement, the iconic robot arm has become a nearly commoditized piece of hardware. You can buy them, and essentially plug then play. Their generalized capabilities make them very flexible in … Read More → "Out of the factory, into the field: robots go to work for architects"

It’s actually somewhat difficult to track down CNET’s lowest-rated reviews of 2012. Our whole site is designed to surface the best, most-worthy products to the top and help you make a smart shopping decision. The losers all tend to sink into obscurity. But with some careful sorting I was able to cobble together all of the reviews of the past year rated under three stars.

But we’re a pretty ruthless bunch here at CNET, so narrowing the list down to just five selections wasn’t easy. For this list, I went with my personal … Read More → "Worst products of the year"

“Solo, Piano — N.Y.C.” is a moving short film that documents the final 24 hours of a piano abandoned on the streets of New York City. Filmmaker Anthony Sherin recorded the film through the front window of his house.

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Math is subject dreaded by many. A museum dedicated to math may seem counter-intuitive, but The New York Times has the story.

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New research shows that male pedestrians who are struck by cars are more than twice as likely to die from their injuries as their female counterparts. That’s after controlling for age and taking into account that male and female pedestrians tend to walk the same amounts each day.

The study, conducted by Dr. Motao Zhu of the West Virginia University School of Public Health, analyzed traffic data from 2008 and 2009 and found that males pedestrians are 2.3 times more likely to die after being hit by a vehicle. We’ll repeat: That doesn’t … Read More → "Careful out there: male pedestrians more likely to die in car accidents"

Wind turbines seem to be on steroids these days — they’re getting bulkier and heavier, and that makes them more expensive to ship and more complex to assemble. But a startup called Boulder Wind Turbines says it has figured out a new way to lighten the load.

The Colorado company, founded in 2009, has engineered a generator that incorporates a circuit board design as one of its main components. A generator’s motor is made up of a rotating component called the rotor and a stationary part called the stator. … Read More → "Wind power embraces the circuit board design, via a startup"

Will you take the red pill or the blue pill?

Some physicists and university researchers say it’s possible to test the theory that our entire universe exists inside a computer simulation, like in the 1999 film “The Matrix.”

In 2003, University of Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper, “The Simulation Argument,” which argued that, “we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.” Now, a team at Cornell University says it has come up with a viable method for testing whether … Read More → "Physicists testing to see if universe is a computer simulation"