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Trip tips: Lodging, pocket money, traveling with pets
Barbara Bogaev May 3, 2013
Lodging can quickly eat up your summer travel budget. Anne Banas of SmarterTravel.com shares her tips for redeeming hotel loyalty points, alternatives to traditional lodging, traveling with pets and keeping your money safe when going abroad.
The many uses of robot snakes
David Brancaccio Mar 27, 2013
A robot snake -- just like the name suggests -- is a long, segmented metal rig. When you toss it, it automatically wraps around whatever it hits.
Borgata hotel room gambling trains customers to go online
Tracey Samuelson Mar 18, 2013
As states legalize online gambling, how does a casino hold on to customers? At the Borgata in Atlantic City, you can leave the casino floor and play the slots on a TV in your room.
Your own personal drone
Kai Ryssdal Mar 7, 2013
Ready for your personal drone? A look at what a world of civilian drones with CEO of 3D Robotics, Chris Anderson.
A robot for every job
Sarah Gardner Feb 18, 2013
How one little robot named Baxter could take over the last of America's manufacturing jobs.
Hilton CEO digs deep into foreign markets at Davos
Kai Ryssdal Jan 24, 2013
Some of the attendees at Davos are there doing big business. And Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta has a free place to stay.
Robots that play like Monk, and growth in the online job market
David Brancaccio Jan 4, 2013
Elance, a company that uses the web to fix up freelancers, forecasts that one out of four college students in 2013 will earn money through online jobs. Researchers at Georgie Tech are working to create a robot that will improvise music along with humans.
Paul Krugman on tech's great divergence
David Brancaccio Jan 2, 2013
Economist Paul Krugman talks about a new direction in 'the technology universe' that has taken shape over the last decade.
Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on surviving the rise of the machines
David Brancaccio Dec 26, 2012
One of the co-creators of Skype thinks we may be in trouble if we don't start planning for a possible real life "Terminator" plot.
The art of checking in
Sarah Gardner Dec 20, 2012
Tips for your next hotel stay from a long-time hotelier.
