Daily Archives: November 16, 2007

Oh fer cute!

Friday fun for you: The researchers stationed a 2-foot-tall robot called QRIO (pronounced “curio”), and developed by Sony, in a classroom of a dozen toddlers aged between 18 months and two years. QRIO stayed in the middle of the room using its sensors to avoid bumping the kids or the walls. It was initially programmed [...]

Foreclosures

Here’s an interesting twist on the sub-prime mortgage scandal (TM) in the US. Back in the day you would take a mortgage out with a lender, and they would hold that lien on your home until you paid off the mortgage. But as mortgages were turned into commodities they were sold off to institutions all [...]