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Science Museum shows off driverless vehicles – Technology, iPhone …

New driverless pods, due to be installed at Heathrow airport in 2010, are to be showcased at London’s Science Museum.The space-age looking Personal Rapid Transit Systems (to give them there proper name) can carry up to four adults and …

New 'flow router' may save the Internet from collapsing under the …

The prospects of a Future Inevitable Internet Collapse™ has some of our readers seriously freaked out. You know the type — they live in places like Idaho and Montana, in fortified mountaintop retreats, where they hoard digital media …

Computers: Tiny, Printed Semiconductors Will Help You Buy Wine

One problem with wine is it’s impossible to remember what type goes with what food. Thankfully smart people are working around the clock, or at least 9 to 5, to solve this problem, by developing super-cheap semiconductors that can be …

Interview: Bringing Windows games to Linux – Technology, iPhone …

On the back of the dotcom boom, Michael Simms ploughed £350000 of his own money into a games company with the intention of bringing some of the most playable Windows titles to Linux. Almost 10 years later, Linux Game Publishing, …

Featurette – The Science Behind 'Surrogates'

Watch a featurette on the science behind Surrogates. Surrogates, based on the Top Shelf Comix graphic novel by Robert Venditti, tells the story of a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and only interact in the real world …