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Tired of your dumb old microwave that just shoots friggin' radio waves at food to cook it? Developer Nathan Broadbent has hacked away at his microwave to add stuff that any self-respecting microwave manufacturer of the year 2013 should have probably added themselves. Voice commands! Barcodes that pre-set cooking times! A SELF SETTING CLOCK.

If you’ve used a mouse to click this, he's the one you have to thank. The inventor of the computer mouse and so much more passed away in the late hours of July 2.

A part of the STARMAC Project in the Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Berkeley (EECS department).

In the 17th century, "innovators" didn't get accolades. They got their ears cut off.

I realized I was the only one aboard, and the boat was driving itself.

A comprehensive list from QuoReddit on Quora.

Created using Raspberry Pi and openFrameworks, Murmur is a device that enables the communication between public and the projection by simulating the movement of sound waves, building a luminous bridge between the physical and the virtual.

The recent controversy about government surveillance intersects in surprising ways with big questions at the heart of philosophy, cognitive science and computer science. 

In a cluttered lab in Manchester, UK, three scientists changed the world of computing forever. Working with a machine they'd built and nicknamed Baby, they ran the first ever program to be stored electronically in a computer's memory.

For data nuts (like me)

Anki makes robot race cars controlled by an iPhone. Sign me up.