The 404 985: Where its snowing in space (podcast)Due to technical difficulties beyond our control, were cutting the live stream to free up bandwidth. Our tenderest apologies to the daily live listeners, but be sure to follow @the404 on Twitter for an extremely truncated, liveblogish version of the episode. If youre now wondering what to do from 12-1PM every day, we recommend re-watching old episodes and pretending theyre live. On todays show: Sunbathing groundhogs, instant Facebook millionaire David Choe, a CBS pilot show about Groupon, and Reading Rainbows Lavar Burton strikes back.
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Green solar cell is made from plantsTo make super cheap solar cells, MIT researchers look to commandeer the process of photosynthesis in plants.
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Cutting Edge
Windows Phone 8 details reportedly leakOn tap for the next version of Microsofts smartphone platform: support for different processors, screen sizes, and microSD storage, NFC, business support, Windows 8 integration, and more.
Cutting Edge
In the future, a swarm of flying robots may do the work now done by human search teams.
Chevy Volt sales take a hitSales of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt electric cars start slow in 2012, with Volt sales apparently impacted by a now closed safety investigation.
Mobile
Apple calls iMessage bug story an extremely rare situationThe issue with Apples iMessage that puts one users account on another device doesnt have a fix in sight, but the company has weighed in on what happened to one user, saying it was extremely rare.
Cutting Edge
Facebook goes quiet, comes alive againMultiple reports of slow loading and even no loading suggest that Facebook is experiencing problems. What might it be?
Keep up-to-date on cutting-edge research and whats new in a wide range of areas, from robotics, space ventures, nanotechnology, and general science, to automobile design and solar energy.
A robotics research team at the University of Pennsylvania has designed a system to coordinate a number of small quadcopters, a step toward coordinating multiple robots for tasks such as surveillance or searching areas after a disaster.
Technically Incorrect
Why well never find an exoplanet like EarthEvidence that plant life was a primary force that shaped Earths suce is laid out in a new issue of Nature Geoscience. Because of that, the chance well find a similar world with a suce like our planets is very small.
The quadcopters are able to flip over and maintain flight. More amazing (unnerving?) is their operation in formation. Based on commands, 16 quadcopters change direction, land, navigate past obstacles, and even fly in a figure-eight formation.
Geek Gestalt
Coordinating the action of multiple robots is one of the big technical challenges in robotics research now. Small robots, such as these nano quadcopters, could be well-suited for certain missions, but people need methods forprogramming small, inexpensive robots in large groupsrather than manually configuring each one.
Social video sharing app ShowYou goes deep with v3.0With the third version of the critically acclaimed app, users will be able to drill down and see more of the videos their friends are sharing--and what their friends friends are watching.
Martin LaMonicaMartin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld.
technical university See nano quadcopter robots swarm (video,The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) lab at UPenn yesterday posteda video on You Tubewith nano quadcoptertechnical universitys showing remarkable agility and the ability to perform as a team.
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