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At Google's Zeitgeist conference, its chairman, Eric E. Schmidt, described a long-term future in which life is managed by robots - and one a little bit closer to reality, in which billions more people can get access to information with new devices and connectivity.

The start-up Art.sy aims to do for visual art what Pandora did for music: become a source of discovery, pleasure and education.

From the printing press to the Google glasses, the earliest lumbering efforts in technology morph over time into streamlined, unnoticed tools of daily life, writes Nick Bilton.

Is this really the golden age for inventors?

The founders of Instagram, now multimillionaires after Facebook bought their app this week, were helped along the way by the tight web in the Bay Area tech scene.

On Wednesday, Google gave people 20/20 vision about a secret augmented-reality project called Project Glass. The glasses are the company's first foray into wearable computing.