During last week’s ROBO-ONE Humanoid Helper Robot Project in Yokohama, Japan one robot and its master celebrated the holidays by showing us that automated massages and beer service are closer than we think.

Paul Simon may have begged Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away in his 1973 ode to the legendary color slide film, but now the unthinkable has happened, and never again will you be able to get your Kodachrome film developed.

Smartphones are quickly becoming much more powerful than the computer I used just a few years ago. I mean, the HTC Thunderbolt is rumored to have a dual-core 1.2GHz MSM8960 processor! I used to rock a desktop PC with a single-core 1GHz processor!

This ultraviolet image of the sun, courtesy of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), is helping scientists better understand violent solar outbursts. These eruptions are sometimes so powerful they disrupt Earth’s global positioning systems and electrical grids.