Technology
Artist spends decades teaching a computer to paint — successfully
Harold Cohen created AARON to paint. AARON is a computer and for 40 years Cohen has been teaching it all the rules of painting so that, today, it can do work that closely resembles that which you might find from a human.
Computers now smart enough to write fiction, design snack foods
Computer programmers have built software that makes computers capable of increasingly creative tasks. They can do everything from write fiction novels to design snack foods. But whether it's truly creative remains a subject for debate....
VIDEO: Original Apple founding contract fetches more than $1 million at auction
The contract that created Apple Computers was sold at an auction in New York on Tuesday, just one of a number of documents planned to be auction. Expected to fetch $150,000, the contract sold for a final big of $1,350,000. With fees, the final price was just shy of $1.6 million....
Radio a powerful tool in shaping Rwandan society
As Rwanda moves out of the shadow of its devastating genocide of the mid 1990s, an independent media, mostly on the radio, is stepping forward and trying to forge its own identity, while confronting a dark past....
VIDEO: Apple previews new Grand Central store
As Apple readies its new Grand Central Terminal store for a Friday opening, analysts are turning up the volume on predictions that an Apple TV — an actual television and not a hardware add-on — can be expected in less than a year....
Check out some of these awesome inventions from 2011
Time magazine compiled a list of 50 of the biggest, most consequential inventions of the past year. Siri made the list. So did a malaria vaccine, But others, you'll have to read to believe....
Cyber warfare developing into larger threat for U.S., it's allies
Governments around the world are investing in training "kids" in cyber hacking in the hopes that they could be useful in a cyber war. And in this emerging area of warfare, the advantages the United States often has in warfare may not apply....
The wiki: technology that changed Internet communications
Ward Cunningham created the wiki to help a group document what it knew and what it didn't know. The technology that now powers massive websites, perhaps the best known of which is Wikipedia, could have netted Cunningham millions of dollars most likely, but he released it for free....
Al Jazeera reaches an American audience using social media
For Al Jazeera, getting on cable and satellite systems in the United States has been a challenge. To combat that, the network is using social media to reach its audience....
Electric car technology coming back into popularity
The 21st century race to create a zero-emissions vehicle mimics the scramble to develop engine technology in the 1900s....
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