Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. ...more

December 6, 2009

Wayne Coyne talked about "Christmas on Mars" for so long that some fans wondered whether it would ever exist anywhere besides in his head. But here it is, on DVD with 5.1 surround sound no less, handily packaged with a CD of the score. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he's from Oklahoma City. ...more

December 19, 2008

Rising from the orchestra pit in a cloud of smoke, and surrounded by Stewart Middle Magnet School students in blue jumpsuits, Cpt. Winston Scott made quite an entrance to the Blake High School auditorium. ...more

October 8, 2008

Middle school teachers from the Tampa Bay area and across Florida slipped free from the Earth's gravitational constraints Tuesday, part of a program to nudge students toward careers in math, science and engineering. ...more

September 30, 2008

Should this world ever cease to exist, Stephen Colbert will live on. ...more

September 9, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing among the American Film Institute's best genre movies. Films featuring those characters were among the No. 1 picks Tuesday on the AFI's top-10 lists of the finest flicks in 10 genres, including mystery, Westerns, sports tales and courtroom dramas. ...more

June 18, 2008