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What Humans Want: More Domestic Robots [STUDY]People would like to have their own Rosie the Robot — think The Jetsons — and would even borrow money to buy a robot that could complete domestic chores. A survey from the marketing analytics firm Persuadable Research shows that 68% of people surveyed would like to use a rob... The Future of Food: 11 Unique Urban Farming ProjectsThe Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers more than purpose-built electric vehicles — it delivers smart mobility services. Visit bmw-i.com or follow @BMWi on Twitter. Farming has a lot o... The 10 Most Blatant Design Ripoffs in Social MediaPinspire vs. Pinterest It doesn't get more blatant than this. Pinspire is pretty much a pixel-for-pixel Pinterest clone, created by the serial digital ripoff artists at Rocket Internet. It's a bit obscene just how much of a copycat Pinspire is -- from concept to fu... Want to Search Google Images? Draw a Picture [VIDEO]Searching for images on Google isn’t always an easy task using words alone. Your search is going to rely on how images on the web are tagged or captioned. A new tool, however, lets you use self-created images, rather than words, to find pictures on the web. Unofficial Google Image... Facebook Post Seals Guinness World RecordFacebook broke a Guinness World Record this week — and no, this doesn’t have to do with the company’s much-anticipated IPO. Fans of the Zynga game FrontierVille sought and set a World Record, posting over 1,001,600 comments on a single item. If nothing else gives away the string... Pearson-Backed Startup Aims to Be the Zynga for LearningWhat if the 232 million people who log into Zynga’s Facebook games each month instead spent hours working through online learning resources? At least where teens are concerned, a new Pearson-backed startup Alleyoop is betting the result would be more college graduates. “Fundamentally, we... Hulu’s Super Bowl Teaser Has Arrested Development Theme [VIDEO]Hulu is teasing its new Super Bowl campaign and its plot to turn human brains into “mushymush.” The ad will star Will Arnett (Arrested Development, Up All Night) as the latest “TV star” who is surreptitiously trying to rot Earthling brains, thanks to the magic of Hulu Plus.... 5,000 Pound Crab-Like Robot Can Walk On AsteroidsGravitational pull on most asteroids is pretty low. That’s why NASA’s rover ATHLETE (All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Terrestrial Explorer) — with its dexterous arms and the ability to crawl across low-weight environments — could become useful in the future to explo... Today’s Top Stories: Facebook IPO, Kazuo Hirai New Sony CEO, MegaRetrievalWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Facebook’s IPO Likely in the $5 Billion Range Facebook is expected to file for ... YouTube CEO: The Future of Content Is Niche ChannelsThe way consumers access and consume media is changing rapidly, YouTube head Salar Kamangar believes, and YouTube is evolving to accommodate it. “We’re entering the third wave of media,” Kamangar said during an on-stage interview with AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka in Laguna Nig... |