Tag: AGRICULTURE

A lot of people go to Facebook to harvest fake crops on fictitious farms. If you're interested in real farming, however, you're probably better off heading to Twitter, where both farmers and Wall Streeters alike are exchanging valuable, first-hand information about farming conditions across the globe. As Forbes reports, some farmers originally began using the social network as a way to advance ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. Barring a ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. It almost feels ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania recently attracted the attention of the nation's news media when school officials allegedly spied on students through webcams on school-issued laptops. Subpoenas have now been issued because of the incident, as federal investigators have reportedly requested a wide variety of computer ...

A Nova Scotia man has figured out that garlic does more than fend off blood-sucking vampires. According to CBC News, garlic cropper Lenny Levine recently implored his local Kings County Council to prevent the construction of a nearby Eastlink microwave tower that was intended to bring high-speed wireless Internet to the area. Levine, who has been operating his farm since the '70s, said that he ...

Undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are currently developing a team of robots that they hope will be able to streamline agricultural labor, USA Today reports. A year ago, Professor Daniela Rus, who heads MIT's Distributed Robotics Lab, challenged her students to build a "distributed robotic garden" during this most recent Fall semester, the second half of ...