Robots, Hulu, and You

The geeks discuss robot development, and Miles welcomes our robot overlords. Guess which of the geeks is the real robot!

Most complete Earth terrain map taken

The images were taken by Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite.
The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth’s surface, and will be free to download and use.

Google mistook Michael Jackson searches as an botnet attack

Web giant Google has admitted it thought the sudden spike in searches for Michael Jackson on Thursday was a massive, coordinated internet attack, leading it to post an error page on Google News.

Robot: Ninomiya-kun book-reading robot

While electronic books and texts may be the wave of the future, Japanese researchers have developed a literate, child-sized robot capable of reading old-fashioned paper-printed books.

Walt Disney World unveils robotic version Obama

Walt Disney World unveils incredibly scary, robotic version of President Obama.

I’m packing my bags now. I’m going to live underground in an undisclosed location.

YouTube - [Trailer] Robogeisha

This is pretty dang funny

The Simpsons: Worth More on Hulu than Fox

“If a company wants to run ads alongside an episode of The Simpsons on Hulu or TV.com it will cost the advertiser about $60 per thousand viewers, according to Bloomberg. On prime-time TV that same ad will cost somewhere between $20 and $40 per thousand viewers.”

Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone

The iPhone is more secure than MacOS X-based computers, but SMS may be a critical weakness.