“Your battery is bad and will need replaced.” This was the diagnosis I got from the place that repaired our Roomba. If you’re from certain parts of the country, you won’t see anything wrong with it. But it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. It will need replacing or it will need to be replaced. It will not need “replaced”. Some common regional dialect quirks I can live with. This is not one of them. Knock it off, people.
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Once again, technology is put to good use: Atlanta bar owner Rufus Terrill has created the anti-vagabond “Bum Bot 2000.“ It has a 2,000,000 candlepower floodlight and a water cannon capable of 200 lbs of pressure. The object of this robot is to chase away vagrants, prostitutes, and pushers in his neighborhood. Many of Terrill’s targets are the “sort of people” drawn to a local emergency homeless shelter - he hopes to let them know they aren’t welcome to plague his public streets anymore. The
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Stanford University researchers are developing a new 3-D digital imaging sensor that does not require lasers and can some day be fit into a device as small as a cell phone, Digital Journal reports. Robotics is named as a specific application, due to the need for robots to gain depth perception (Editor’s note: This is particularly useful for such applications as autonomous and semi-autonomous driving, and, in the future, attacking targets on the battlefield with precision). iRobot recently secur
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Why Apple Fans Hate Tech Reporters Newmobilecomputing.com - 33 minutes ago "There are many tribes in the tech world: TiVo lovers, Blackberry addicts, Palm Treo fanatics, and people who exhibit unhealthy affection for their Roomba …

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