September 9, 2007Technologists and investors gather at the Singularity Summit to discuss what to do in the event that machines one day outthink humans.TAGS:human, Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco
June 5, 2006You may not eat figs on a daily basis today, but 11,000 years ago it was the hot new food--and may have been a first step toward modern agriculture.TAGS:human, crop, Middle East, professor, food
July 23, 2007Chimps on treadmills may help explain why human ancestors evolved into bipeds 10 million years ago.Images: Humans vs. chimps at the gymTAGS:leg, energy, treadmill, human, patch management, researcher
July 2, 2003Advocates for the visually impaired contend that increasingly popular "visual verification" tests are discriminatory, raising a cloud over the future of a widely used antispam tool.TAGS:VeriSign Inc., human, spam, bot, database, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., e-mail
April 10, 2007Start-up Anybots sees a day when robots will do many things that humans now do. For now, though, they're just working on staying upright.Photos: Meet Dexter and Monty, the AnybotsVideo: Humanoid ro...TAGS:robot, robotics, iRobot Roomba, human, researcher, work, video