Sorry, that’s not actually Dark Helmet, it’s a researcher demonstrating the latest Brain Machine Interface (BMI) cooked up for robotics. While it’s not looking too portable, it’s a far nimbler setup than the original MRI Scanner first concocted by Honda to control robots in near real-time back in 2006. This time, Honda Research Institute in [...]
Three Prize Winners Awarded in Elsevier's Article 2.0 ContestFOXBusinessThe $4000 first prize was awarded to Inigo Surguy whose idea demonstrated how Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0/Semantic Web approaches can be combined to add value to article content. His application enhances content navigation, facilitating commentary on …
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Interview: Gmail’s product manager on Labs, beta, the future — Gmail is turning five soon, and it was given an experimental feature playground called Gmail Labs nearly a year ago. For the anniversary, Ars Technica spoke with Gmail Product Manager Todd Jackson about the evolution of communication …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter quakes as San Francisco shakes — Earthquake news and Twitter have long gone hand in hand because of Twitter’s instant mass-communication ability. Today, an earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area (where Twitter’s headquarters is located, along with many of its original users), and Twitter traffic went nuts.
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Social Networks Help Black Patients Obtain Kidney TransplantsRenal Business Today, AZTo see if social networks could play a role in helping patients navigate the pathway to getting a transplant, Browne surveyed 228 African American patients, more than 90 percent of whom desired a transplant and had insurance that would pay for the …
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John Koller / PlayStation.Blog:
PlayStation 2 Will Be Available for Under $100 — Hi everyone, the last time you heard from me, I talked about the huge milestone that PlayStation 2 achieved – reaching 50 million units sold in North America. Today I’m excited to talk about another milestone in PlayStation 2’s lifespan.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google Prepares Venture Fund — Google Inc. is expected to Tuesday announce more details about its highly anticipated venture-capital fund, including its plan to commit roughly $100 million to the endeavor in its first year, said people familiar with the matter.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Wales giving up on Wikia Search — Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results for all other users. — Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia … [...]
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft to kill Encarta later this year — Microsoft has announced that it is discontinuing its Encarta line of products. The software products will be gone by June 2009 and the website will go down October 31, 2009. — When I first saw this, I had to do a double [...]
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/playstation/Official_PlayStation_2_now_less_than_100′; We’re really hoping that this isn’t Sony’s global announcement. Nevertheless, starting tomorrow April 1st, the PlayStation 2 will be available for less than $100 (down from $129.99), exactly as rumored. Hoozah?
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Sony PlayStation 2 just $99.99 starting tomorrow originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 [...]
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Macworld Expo Moves, Accepts Its Nickname — Here’s the first hint of how IDG’s Macworld Expo will change in the wake of Apple’s decision to pull out of the show: It’s moving from early January to February 9th-13th (which includes a Saturday-the show has been weekday only).
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Western Digital Hard Drives:
WD ENTERS SOLID-STATE DRIVE MARKET WITH ACQUISITION OF SILICONSYSTEMS, INC. — Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), a world leader in hard drive storage for computing and consumer electronics applications, today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems …
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Web 2.0 Expo Focuses on Doing More With LessPC WorldWeb 2.0 Expo kicks off Tuesday with the motto "the power of less," hoping that thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, managers and investors in attendance will see Internet technology opportunities within current budget and resource constraints. …Adobe partnership makes Facebook's platform Flash-ierCNET NewsAdobe and Facebook Drive [...]
We’d guess that Acer wouldn’t intentionally put itself in any sort of contretemps, but its actions are proving otherwise. As ASUS did (and continues to do), it seems that Acer is moving closer and closer to obliterating any semblance of separation between its Aspire netbooks. Shortly after hearing of the 11.6-inch Aspire One comes an [...]
According to folks over at Android Community, Google has begun to pull tethering applications from the G1’s Market. One of the contributors to the “WiFi Tether for Root Users” app claims that the company is citing distribution agreements with carriers as the cause of the takedowns. In their words:
Google enters into distribution agreements with device [...]