Everyone else already used ‘iPad’ name

Oh Apple. First it was Cisco’s iPod name, now this… “Everybody can think of an easy name like ‘iPad.’ It’s not creative.” Indeed several other companies worldwide have had the same idea. Germany’s Siemens uses the trademark “iPad” for small engines and motors. The Swiss-based microchip maker STMicroelectronics has reportedly also registered “IPAD”, short for […]

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The Birth of Hyperspace

Or is it warp technology? Which will win out, Star Wars or Star Trek? They say that ideas developed about 50 years ago by a German scientist named Burkhard Heim suggest that we could use a very strong magnetic field to push spacecraft into another dimension. A dimension where the physical laws that make the […]

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NYTimes: Machines will kill us all!

NYT gets a little spooked by recent Terminator movies. The researchers — leading computer scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and roboticists who met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds on Monterey Bay in California — generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed […]

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Steorn’s Orbo doesn’t work

But that should come as no big surprise to most people, especially those of us who abide by the laws of thermodynamics. The remainder of the 22 person jury chosen by Steorn have unanimously determined there’s no such thing as free energy: In August 2006 the Irish company Steorn published an advertisement in the Economist […]

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