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As on previous feature releases, the animation teams at DreamWorks Animation found new ways to innovate on “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.” Harnessing technology advances since the previous installment, animators and engineers were able to boost character density to produce visually richer scenes and make character movements and interactions more realistic and believable. - Ken Kaplan

In a world gone mobile, there’s a growing appetite for stationary computers, and sales of so-called all-in-one desktop PCs have been climbing by double digits according to market researchers. Here's a look at the trifecta behind the growing demand for all-in-one PCs. - Ken Kaplan

Offering paid internships is a proven method, and at least one executive recruiter likens the practice to a professional baseball team trying to entice a young phenom with the best signing bonus. “It’s very much like Major League Baseball,” said Robert Green, CEO of Silicon Valley recruiting firm GreenSearch. “I know in the Valley that LinkedIn, Apple and Google are among the companies that recruit interns so they can hire them full-time. Companies, like baseball scouts, are trying to get quality people early. They’re looking for the superstar.” - Ken Kaplan

Amid debate over the strengths of fabs versus fabless chipmakers, shrinking geometries and node transitions, VLSI Research analyst Hutcheson shares his perspective on the semiconductor industry today, the future of Moore's Law, impact of 22-nanometer transistors, and the transition to 450-milimeter wafers. - Ken Kaplan

Here Lucas Buick, co-founder of popular retro photography iPhone app Hipstamatic, says he finds inspiration in American innovation driven by our increasingly connected and global world. - Ken Kaplan

Supercomputer crunches big data in Iceland using nothing but renewable hydro and geothermal power. - Ken Kaplan

"Turkey is a very young society, where adoption of new things can be quicker than other societies," said Anastasia Ashman, an author and Berkeley, Calif.-native who moved to Istanbul in 2003 and recently returned to the U.S. "One early adopter can get a group or whole family into a new thing almost overnight," she said, adding that this behavior is driving quick adoption of computers, smartphones and Facebook. - Ken Kaplan

Internet and mobile technologies helping bring medical care to people living in rural and remote areas of Mexico. - Ken Kaplan

While the technology is groundbreaking, the origin of the Ivy Bridge codename was not. The story of how they came up with the codename before becoming known officially as the third generation Intel Core processors. - Ken Kaplan

Steve Megli grew up on a farm in Rock Falls, Ill., where he learned all about hard work. It was good preparation for a 25-year career with Intel's Technology & Manufacturing Group, where today he's a vice president and co-general manager of Assembly Test Manufacturing. Megli talks about the need for so-called "possibility thinking" and how farming prepared him for a career in the technology industry. - Ken Kaplan

Recent user testing shows that people want touch as part of their laptop computing experience. These research findings from Intel counter longstanding notions about touch-enabled displays on clamshell computers. - Ken Kaplan

Standard CT scanners can generate images of patient's body in less than five minutes today, but the radiation dose can be equal to about 70 chest X-rays. Lower powered CT scans can be used in non-emergency situations, but it can take more than 4 days to produce those images. Intel and GE created an algorithm that speeds up a computer's ability to process the low radiation dose scans by 100x, from 100 hours per image to 1 hour. - Ken Kaplan

A look at how Brazil uses compact, portable voting devices and a centralized process to tabulate even close elections within hours. The country has been using electronic voting for more than a decade. - Ken Kaplan

A look at traffic during an Internet minute. - Ken Kaplan

By day, he's an IT pro but by night he transforms retro furniture and antique appliances -- he once turned an Elvis microphone -- into a fully functioning PC. - Ken Kaplan

A rapid rebound from the 2008 global economic crisis, distribution of wealth across a growing middle class and more affordable prices are driving Russia to become the biggest PC market in Europe. - Ken Kaplan

The tech world is rife with conductors, but this one has nothing to do with transmitting heat, electricity or light. In this case, the conductor leads a robotic orchestra, synchronizing a host of plastic and metal percussion instruments that ping, pong, bong and blink blue-hued light each time a nearby paint gun strikes them with a tiny rubber ball. - Ken Kaplan

With 21 motors and a Web camera for an eye, this skateboard-sized robot is fast moving and fully aware of its surroundings. Which gives many people the heebie-jeebies at first sight, according to creator Matt Bunting. Especially for anyone who is afraid of spiders. Aside from arachnophobes, Bunting said the hexapod is a real attention-grabber that often peaks people's curiosity. - Ken Kaplan

In the midst of a steady stream of gloomy economic news, an up and coming Asian economic power has snatched a high-stakes, tech industry crown from the U.S. China was the world's largest personal computer market in the second quarter of 2011. This marked the first time that more PCs shipped in China than in the U.S., according to research firm IDC. Despite the on-going debate over the presumed death of the PC, an estimated 350 million are expected to be sold this year even amid the growth of tablets and smartphones. - Ken Kaplan

Armed with a laptop and a self-built digital camera rig, this amateur astronomer photographs the Milky Way. - Ken Kaplan

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Norman Kuring, who created the images, said that he did his data crunching on a custom-built 64-bit Linux desktop system powered by an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU. "It's just a grey box by my desk," he said. - Ken Kaplan

In the wake of the on-going buzz around Ultrabooks, we went looking for the new category of laptop computers in the Sacramento, Calif. area. Visiting retail stores where computers are sold, we asked sales associates to show what they had to offer. - Ken Kaplan

Infographic on Mobile and smartphone market in China - Ken Kaplan

Call it the heart of Facebook. Take an unusual peek inside one of the world's largest data centers, Facebook's monster server farm that opened last year in the remote desert town of Prineville, Ore., 150 miles east of Portland. - Ken Kaplan

McNeil Studio turns to Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing for the first time to render computer animation, and believes cloud computing could start a Renaissance in the arts. - Ken Kaplan

The idea behind the reference design is to speed development time for phone manufacturers that, in turn, can focus on adding additional features and software. The phone features a high-resolution 4.03-inch LCD screen and is running Android Gingerbread OS on the company's Medfield phone platform. A company representative said versions of the phone are also running Ice Cream Sandwich but none were being shown publicly at CES. - Ken Kaplan

How one man puts the torture test to SSDs to raise awareness for the durable, resistant hard drives. - Ken Kaplan

Breakfast with the first woman to start a tech company in Silicon Valley. - Ken Kaplan

MIT President Warns Silicon Valley that a Lack of Ambition, Investment in Education, Research and Manufacturing Will Cut America's Lead, Stifle Future Job Growth. - Ken Kaplan

See what's inside the Lego box come to life on the screen before your eyes. - Ken Kaplan