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If you were to ask 100 people to pick the single greatest superhero power or sci-fi technology, time travel would almost certainly win. And believe it or not, time travel isn’t entirely outside the realm of reality — for some unified theories of the universe, such as general relativity, traveling in time is actually fairly easy. That’s why two American researchers ...

Courtesy of Benjamin Vermeulen A set of magnetic furniture from Benjamin Vermeulen. Magnetic furniture which snaps together without the need for a single screwdriver could be the future of the flat-pack interiors industry. The ‘MAG’ (Magnetic Assisted Geometry) range by Benjamin Vermeulen first debuted at Dutch Design Week in October this year and has been causing quite a stir within ...

DARPA’s Robotic Challenge took place in Florida over the weekend, pitting some of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots against each other in a series of complex tasks, and rather fortuitously for a famously acquisitive Silicon Valley company, the winning robot was fielded by a company called Schaft — a Japanese company that was recently acquired by Google as part ...

A new report from the National Resources Defense Council put the PS4 and Xbox One under the power efficiency microscope and came back with less than glowing things to say about the new devices. According to the organization, both consoles draw more power than they should, despite heavy investment in power-saving technologies. The long-term impact? ”Over five years, the Xbox One’s 250 ...

I have the seen the future — and it isn’t the PS4. If, however, you’re looking for a console that’s easy to set up, puts games at the forefront, and makes sharing screenshots and live gameplay video almost too easy, then the PS4 is a very fine choice indeed. Read on for our hands-on impressions of Sony’s eighth-generation PlayStation, along ...

The PS4 launches at the end of the week, but we’re still getting new insights about the entire development process of the console. Yesterday, there was a small media event in New York where Sony distributed the PS4 to a number of press outlets, and key PlayStation employees were available for interviews. Unsurprisingly, the lack of DLNA and MP3 support ...