• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Pictures

Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

Pictures of the year: Technology

A look at the year's best science and technology photos.   Slideshow 

    Smart meters to cut energy costs

    NEW YORK
    Thu Oct 4, 2007 8:35am EDT

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Electric Power Co and General Electric Co's GE Energy will cooperate to build and deploy advanced electricity "smart" meters designed to help consumers cut their energy costs, the companies said on Thursday.

    Science  |  Green Business

    The companies signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a technology that would allow customers to gauge the costs of electricity at different times of the day, enabling them to cut their power costs.

    AEP said it plans to roll out the meters to 200,000 customers by the end of 2008, pending approval by regulators, and expand that to more than 5 million by the end of 2015.

    (Reporting by Matt Daily, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
    Science
    Green Business


    More from Reuters

    Photo

    Wide use of U.S. airport body scanners depends on Obama

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The path toward rolling out wider use of whole-body security scanners in U.S. airports runs through the White House.

    » More Top News
    EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. A man holds a picture of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic as government supporters protest against opposition demonstrations during the holy day of Ashura, in Tehran December, 30 2009. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

    What next?

    Six months after a disputed election, tension in Iran shows no signs of letting up.  Full Article 

    IRAN
    Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is escorted by police and photographed by the media as he departs U.S. Federal Court after a hearing in New York, January 5, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

    I beg your pardon ...

    Bernie Madoff became the poster boy of crooked investment schemes this year -- but he wasn't alone. Here's a look at the 10 most notorious cases of 2009.  Full Article 

    Corporate Crime