US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" (4)
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Hugh Pickens writes "Time Magazine reports on a $4 million US Army contract to begin developing 'thought helmets' to harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops that the Army hopes will 'lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone.' The Army's initial goal is to capture brain waves with software that translates the waves into audible radio messages for other troops in the field. 'It'd be radio without a microphone,' ...
Google Audio Indexing now on Google Labs (58)
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Nearly two months ago, we introduced the Google Elections Video Search gadget on iGoogle, a tool that transcribes and indexes the spoken content on YouTube's Politicians channels. It didn't take long for folks to find some creative ways to use it! Now it's possible to enjoy this technology in a bigger way: We just launched Google Audio Indexing (aka GAudi) in Google Labs. The dedicated site offers more features, such as "search within video" and ...
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Mason said:
If, and more probably, when, they roll this out on a larger scale it will change everything
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Ted said:
My 20% project launches!
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anders.norgaard said:
Is it just me or is this audio and video indexing a huge thing?
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chills said:
This looks like it could really help with video news content.
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Hyunhak said:
구글 짱먹으삼 ;
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Oskar NRK said:
Ecco, mancava solo che indicizzassero l'audio :P
Abortion bill in Victoria sub-post (1)
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This is really serious stuff. A bill, decriminalizing abortion in Victoria, (Australia's southern state) is going through parliament. (Source-http://catchthefire.com.au/blog/2008/08/22/urgent-abortion-bill-tabled-in-victoria-bad-news-little-time/) “Below is a very alarming development in Victoria and if it gets through we will be permitting abortion (better known as murder) right up until 9 months! Please take some time to pray and act immediately! These are the next generation of Aussies being taken away from us! They have the right to live! It is ...
Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer (140)
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Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft. Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser that launches tomorrow at Google.com/chrome, will give them a real foothold on the desktop and way more control over how web applications perform. They’ve built their own Javascript engine despite the fact that Webkit already has one. This should make ...
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aaron said:
it's not a fucking operating system, moron!
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Role said:
hört sich irgendwie schon spannend an.wenn man viele von den g-aps benutzt und es einen wirklichen geschwindigkeitsvorteil bringt...werds testen ;)
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Liz said:
发生的还是比想象中的要早一些...然而为虾米是基于WebKit的-.-，为了和Android/iPhone等手提终端全兼容？ Google Gear for Safari也才刚刚发布没几天
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Dave said:
Wow! this is pretty incredible I must say! A new web browser from Google, built using WebKit like Safari, but totally different. Wow! ... ok, Wow!
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Trindade said:
Is Chrome the Windows Killer?
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Eric Atkins said:
When I read the comic about Google Chrome, I determined that Google isn't trying to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. They are trying to compete with Windows. Chrome is the beginning of an online operating system.
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broepke said:
Okay - Apple has this machine that's really expensive and it surfs the web and runs maybe 1 other application... I'll never use this. Now Google's vision on the other hand. Maybe ;)
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Jeff said:
Whatever. "Windows Killer" number 782,491 please step up to the counter. This is interesting, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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Brandon Bloom said:
This story, while sensationalism, is more like Google's actual plans :-)
Photos of Android Phone? (11)
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Engadget has photos of what they say is going to be a mobile phone running Google-backed mobile system Android. The phone is T-Mobile-branded and produced by HTC (Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corporation, a member of the – again Google-backed – Open Handset Alliance, as is T-Mobile), and comes with a slidable keyboard.* [Via Reto.] *The last HTC/ T-Mobile phone I had I gave up on due to low usability, but then again, it had Windows ...
New, Better, Great, Enterprise Licensing! (1)
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Just a sampling from my recent ComputerWorld Interview:..."No. No. I don't agree with that. I don't actually believe customers like choices. What customers like is a good, low price. That's what customers really like. Choices? Some people like choices. Some people say, "With all these choices, I never know whether I did the right thing. Did I buy what I needed to buy?"..."I've got plenty of customers who tell me, "This is going to cost ...
Injured? Horsing Around With Stem Cells May Get You Back in the Saddle (11)
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Doctors might soon be able to regrow injured muscles, tendons and bones without invasive surgery, simply by injecting a person's own stem cells into the site of an injury. Veterinarians are already doing it with injured horses, and research into human applications is well under way. The National Institutes for Health seem to think regenerating human muscle and bone using a person's own adult stem cells is nearly ready for prime time. Last week, the ...
Real Snail Mail (1)
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A few news outlets, mostly in the UK, have picked up the story of gastropod-enabled email delivery. The RealSnailMail project out of Bournemouth University uses snails with RFID tags to deliver email. The service will officially launch at SIGGRAPH on August 11, 2008. While it's still under development, the perpetrators write, "For testing purposes some messages may be forwarded sooner than expected. Sorry we can not guarantee unreliability of service at this time. We hope ...
Martin Meredith: To IRC, or not to IRC…. (1)
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… that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous harrasments, or take ops against a sea of trolls, and by opposing, end them? To /part; to /quit; No more; and by a /quit say we end The head-ache, and thousand virtual pings That IRC is heir to, ’tis a consumation Devoutly to be wish’d. To /part; to /quit; To /quit, perchance to /ignore: ay, there’s ...
Better Terrain Representation in Google Maps (1)
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Mehmet K. noticed an update of the terrain layer from Google Maps, a feature that lets you view physical features, such as mountains and vegetation, with elevation shading.The fairly recent "terrain" feature in Google Maps now plots contours as well as hill shading. The only problem that I can see is that the contours are in feet in the UK whereas feet are only really used in the States. Even in the UK where we ...
Roland Wolters (liquidat): The Power of Plasma theming - a gallery of 23 themes [Update] (1)
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One of the most often mentioned concerns at the KDE booth at LinuxTag was the question if Plasma would force the user to have a black panel. While we did have a second machine showing another theme to resolve all doubts it showed that not all users now yet the power of Plasma theming. KDE is well known for the possibilities to configure it just like you want. And Plasma is no exclusion of this ...
ISO Puts OOXML On Hold (1)
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schliz alerts us that ISO, in response to the four appeals (Venezuela, India, Brazil, South Africa) filed in recent weeks, has put the OOXML standardization process on hold. Here is ISO's press release, which says that ISO/IEC DIS 29500 will not be published for at least "several months" while the appeals process goes forward. Update: 06/11 10:13 GMT by KD : Reader Alsee points out that the fourth officially recognized appealing country is Venezuela, not ...
Original Doctor Who Immortalized on Brit Stamp (1)
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William Hartnell, the first actor to take on the roll of The Doctor when Doctor Who premiered in 1963, is featured on a new stamp from the Royal Mail, United Kingdom's postal service.
Show off your favorite blogs with a Blog List (1)
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Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can ...
Searching Together (1)
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It happens - the phenomenon of similar ideas all hatching at the same time. The latest seems to be synchronous web experiences. I've heard about three or four of them in the past few weeks, the latest being Microsoft's Search Together. From a page explaining the research project: Search, of course, has become ubiquitous for enabling users to find Web content, but existing search engines have been designed for use by an individual. Search interfaces ...
Jerry Yang’s Salary Is Only $1, But Icahn Still Wants His Head (1)
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June promises to be an interesting month for Yahoo. The company filed it’s proxy statement yesterday, setting the date for its annual shareholder meeting on August 1. Activist shareholder Carl Icahn, who has already proposed his own alternate slate of board members, is now also calling for CEO Jerry Yang’s head. Icahn points to a recently unsealed complaint in a shareholder lawsuit that details the lengths Yahoo has gone to squirrel the deal with Microsoft. ...
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