MIT builds camera that can capture …

A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a "shutter speed" of one trillion exposures per second — enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (which is normally used to intensify photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser as it passed through a soda bottle. In order to create the slow-motion film in the video we've got after the break, the team had to replicate the experiment hu…

Groundbreaking photonic chip could …

Quantum Computers already exist, but not in the "universal" form that would truly revolutionize computing. That's why the latest innovation from Bristol University has so much promise: a team from its center for Quantum Photonics has built a reprogrammable quantum chip. The 70mm x 3mm box is capable of measuring and manipulating entanglement and mixture — fundamental elements of the mythical "universal" chip. It's taken the team six years to reach this point, but now it'll concentrate on sca…

Modern Warfare 3 Garners $1 Billion…

Complain all you want about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and the rest of the series. It has already made more money than the aggregate total of the worth of your life and the lives of probably everyone you know.
That’s right — Modern Warfare 3 has already made a billion dollars, Activision just said in a press release. It did it in 16 days. You know what took 17 days to make a billion dollar? Avatar. Suck it, James Cameron, Bobby Kotick is likely saying in this fantasy conversation I just i…

Aldebaran Robotics announces Nao Ne…

Aldebaran Robotics' Nao robot has already received a few upgrades from both the company itself and other developers, but it now has a proper successor. Aldebaran took the wraps off its new and improved Nao Next Gen robot today, touting features like a 1.6GHz Atom processor and dual HD cameras that promise to allow for better face and object recognition even in poor lighting conditions. What's more, while robot's outward appearance hasn't changed much, it has also received a number of software…

Google Currents is hot off the pres…

We strive to give you beautiful and simple ways to experience all the content the web has to offer, such as sharing photos on Google+, watching YouTube videos and discovering books, movies and music from Android Market. Today we’re expanding our content offering with the introduction of Google Currents, a new application for Android devices, iPads and iPhones that lets you explore online magazines and other content with the swipe of a finger. Ready for consumers We’ve worked with more than 15…