Gadget Madness is reporting today the first official sighting in the wild of the newest member of the Robosapien family, the Robosapien Junior by Playskool. Like it's older siblings, the original Robosapien and the Mini Robosapien, Junior is one tough-looking robot. With "Bump-n-Giggle" technology (Hasbro's term, not mine), it's usefulness as a hacking platform is questionable at best, but I can't think of a better (or cuter) way to introduce robots to the next generation of hackers, programmers and scientists. […]

CNET News.com is running an interview with one of my favorite authors, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil to promote his new book "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology." Kurzweil, whose previous books include "The Age of Intelligent Machines" and "The Age of Spiritual Machines," predicts that we will reach the Singularity, a time when changes to ourselves and our environment due to advances in computing, AI, nanotechnology, and biology will exceed the ability for pre-Singularity humans to understand or even predict, by […]