... in , medicine and technology. AI is doing what computers themselves did when they first appeared on the scene -- allowing us to complete tasks that would have otherwise taken weeks, months or years...

... a vehicle running pure petrol. That is simple because ethanol has a lower energy density than petrol, hence more must be burnt to obtain the same output. Secondly, the ethanol content represents...

... 2014 Interesting things happening in the world of , technology and such on this first Friday of August, 2014 are... The dreaded Ebola has slipped the leash of geographical confinement and begun...

... of other factors that also probably help a lot. Take this example of an April Fool's joke from the 1939 edition of Popular magazine for example. Mercuric chloride? Sodium sulphocyanide? No doubt...

... was the stuff of fiction. Although the arrival of TV put a bit of a dent in the fortunes of print-media news empires, the effect of this was nothing when compared to the devastation that the world...

... 2012 There's a thin line, they say, between genius and insanity. Back in 1856, one of the brightest minds on the planet was born. A man who left a legacy of that still forms the basis of some...

... a mission to plant nukes on a planet-killing asteroid anyway. Shooting such a threat with a laser is still in the realm of -fiction, we have no way to effectively "blow up" a piece of rock...

.... An example of this ever-improving technology can be seen in this Daily story in which it is reported that researchers at Caltech have been able to significantly improve the spectral purity of solid...

... but also from a "look and feel". How many other popular websites have as many HTML errors as this one for instance? :-) So what flavour and type of content are readers looking for? More stories...

... ago, the promise of pizza and other consumer-level deliveries by drone doesn't even pass the sniff-test, let alone a more careful scrutiny of the economics or even the involved. Never...

... geeks of my age excited about . This highlights several things... Firstly, just about any good idea can attract huge amounts of funding if it's packaged and presented effectively through...

... long time and I had always hoped (when I was a Sky subscriber) that they would bring it to NZ - but they never did. So you might think I would have though it a smart move to create an all-new ...

... that the conventional methods used to charge these batteries is part of the problem in their limited longevity. As this piece on Daily describes, the new charging protocol can produce a marked...

... on , technology and electronics, I would regularly trawl through scrap-heaps and piles of rubbish looking for gold. No, not the lustrous, shiny, yellow gold from which jewelery and low...

... and all the other "baubles of power". Well New Zealand's , Innovation and Technology Minister seems to have found a way to tick all the boxes whilst pretending to be working hard to further...

... supposedly been created as a mechanism for supporting hi-tech industries in NZ have turned out to be an old-boys network where the "schmooze" is more important than the . A key element...

... it is built. While it might sound impressive that we've uncovered evidence of the Higgs Boson, I suspect that in a few centuries time, it will be to our , as the Wright brothers' Kittyhawk flight...

... as slice through sheets of steel like a hot knife through butter, instigate nuclear fusion in specially designed reactors, and scare the snot out of airline pilots. Yes, just like in fiction...

... figure sum beggars belief -- when you consider that just a decade or two ago it was the stuff of fiction and beyond the reach of even the military forces of the richest nations. Of course now...

... of seven or eight did all those years ago... through the fiction movies and books that were so exciting and inspiring. Carpe Diem folks! Please visit the sponsor! Have your say in the Aardvark...