Revealed this week at Ceatec (Japan’s version of CES): The omniscient washing machine. Well, maybe it’s not omniscient, but it can detect precisely how dirty your sweaters and jeans are, a...

Hugo Chavez: ardent socialist, Venezuelan president, rain maker? A crippling drought in his country has led Chavez to embrace cloud seeding. This week, he announced that he will team up with Cuban sc...