An artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off topic saying: "It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else...." picked by henkspaan 2 years ago

A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time.

Think of the ramifications for paralyzed people and such! picked by tdiggity 2 years ago

38 years ago today the first message was sent over the internet. Wow... and now look what it's become. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

A marine mammal rehabilitation facility opened a dolphin "chat line" of sorts Saturday, hoping to teach a deaf dolphin's unborn calf to communicate. picked by suebe 3 years ago

Thanks to new technologies, you can now chat live with god. picked by LatueOfStiberty 3 years ago

Horses were first domesticated on the plains of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago -- 1,000 years earlier than thought -- by people who rode them and drank their milk, researchers said on Thursday. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Amusing article, although the page is wayyy too busy. I'm pretty sure witty Plimates could add more to the list. picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago

Gorilla uses sign language to communicate. picked by billyd1 3 years ago

Mother hands 8-Year-old the phone to speak to counselors, gets sex line instead. Put this in the Florida file. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

An interesting concept, but maybe too distracting for me. It's hard enough to think on my fingertips without handsome avatars watching me. picked by meggysue 1 year ago

This is from bash.org a catalog of funny IRC chats. This is number one picked by acemak 2 years ago

We have been using this chat room during the Plime downtime. If it goes down again you can find some of us here. The password is karma. picked by titojuante 2 years ago

Are you Lonely? Curious? Depraved? Do you have questions that are just too risqué for AskMe? Live Hot Puppet Chat has got your answer. Yeah baby! Now you can experience sizzling raw, uh, pleasures. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Some trucker dude has put a streaming webcam in his truck so you can see what he does and chat live to him and hear him.

Really bizarre and his singing sucks. picked by doggylives 1 year ago

A "bald" bird discovered in Laos is Asia's first new species of bulbul, a type of songbird, in more than 100 years, scientists say. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Dressed in a suit, this person would not look out of place in a busy street in a modern city.

The clay sculpture, however, portrays the face of the earliest known modern European - a man or woman who hunted deer and gathered fruit and herbs in ancient forests more than 35,000 years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Perhaps the first stars in the newborn universe did not shine, but instead were invisible “dark stars” 400 to 200,000 times wider than the sun and powered by the annihilation of mysterious dark matter. The study calculated how the birth of the first stars almost 13 billion years ago might have been influenced by the presence of dark matter – the unseen, yet-unidentified stuff tha... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

We had a chance to chat with Facebook's Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, who came over from Mozilla in August. Topics included everything from open source, to Facebook Connect's impact on the web, to getting stopped in airport security lines. picked by cactushair 12 months ago

The first baby rhinoceros born in Uganda in almost 30 years has been named Obama because his father is from Kenya and his mother was born in the US. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

1909: After searching through hundreds of potential chemicals, a German immunologist discovers a compound that can selectively kill the parasitic spirochete that causes syphilis. The following year, he sends 65,000 free samples of the drug, now known as the first modern chemotherapy agent, to doctors all over the world. picked by Bingo 3 months ago