Posted 06/29/09 at 09:50:48 AM by Paul Lilly

You kids and your fancy Internet can keep it and stick it where the sun doesn't shine. Or at least that's how Ray Bradbury, the 88-year-old sci-fi author who penned such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and The Martian Chronicles, probably feels. Speaking to The New York Times, Bradbury had some interesting things to say about the cyber space.

"The Internet is a big distraction," Bradbury said as he was just warming up. "Yahoo called me eight weeks ago. They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You what I told them? 'To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.' It's distracting. It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."

Yahoo had no comment on the issue, saying they weren't sure of Bradbury's account was accurate.

On a related note, online literature has become a hot topic as of late, particularly with the controversy surrounding Google's Book service. Google is trying to push through its Book Search initiative, which would give it exclusive access to digital editions of some out-of-print books, much to the chagrin of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and others who oppose the move.

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Posted 06/23/08 at 04:12:47 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Ace Ventura vividly described women as “a temple to house the miracle of procreation” in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, but scientists at a British University have ushered in an era in which robots will also be endowed with the divine gift of reproduction, or more precisely, replication. Researchers at the University of Bath have successfully developed RepRap, self-replicating machine that can copy itself ad infinitum.

Despite all the technological advancements you still have no choice but to click on the "Read More" link to know how the self-replicating robot might be a step closer to the ultimate sci-fi nightmare and how you can build one yourself.

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Posted 04/25/08 at 04:56:10 PM by One4yu2c

CompUSA rises from the dead, Microsoft notes increase in piracy, find out why Iron Man's suit isn't ready for prime time (No way?! Way!), and more!

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