The Register has a neat little article about the Talking Points system, aimed at describing environments for the blind. The system, developed at the University of Michigan, revolves around a series of bluetooth beacons, each of which sends out a pre-programmed audio message...
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Rebecca gives us a history lesson on the art of seduction."At the turn of the 20th century Vancouver was just starting to boom. Building on up the backs of the industry workers, loggers, and Klondike gold rushers...
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"A wave of horrifying violence has swept the townships around Johannesburg in the past week, The Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen reported in an article Tuesday Xenophobic rage explodes in South Africa. At least 22 people are dead, hundreds injured and an estimated 4,000...
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As approval ratings for Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick continue to plumet, he's courted more controversy by skipping town during an important vote to negotiate a book deal for his autobiography....
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It's fitting that, after directing the excellent Bob Dylan documentary 'No Direction Home' in 2005, Martin Scorsese would choose an equally prolific and iconic musical subject for his latest film: The Rolling Stones.There is a wealth of Stones mythology, music, and mischief...
Is this the beginning of the end of Facebook?"Facebook has turned all the people who rooted for it into a lynch mob. In the space of a month, it’s gone from media darling to devil. The most interesting thing...
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"Facebook, the social networking website, has been forced into a dramatic climbdown over a new advertising system after users in America expressed privacy concerns."
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How can a management team be so smart and so dumb at the same time? What were they thinking?"A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much...
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"Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology.
When Facebook users shopped online,...
"Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology.
When Facebook users shopped online,...
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This whole Web 2.0 "revolution" seems to be sticking, so far. A personalized internet experience is what the internet-using masses want. For those of you unfamiliar with what Web 2.0 is (but are likely...
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August 30, 2007 Tearful and towering, Mandela steals show at statue unveiling Alan Hamilton He only had to say “Ladies and gentlemen” for the crowd of several thousand in Parliament Square to break into spontaneous applause. We wondered if his next utterance...
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Two teams of researchers with seemingly divergent areas of interest have come together for a techie-meets-nature experiment in Massachusetts. The researchers are simultaneously studying new wireless technology...
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PM to receive B'nai B'rith's top honour
PRIME Minister John Howard will be presented the prestigious B'nai B'rith international Presidential Gold Medal for his "outstanding" support of Israel and the Jewish...
"On this day in 1963, at a mass gathering on the Mall in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a speech that would become a beacon of the civil rights movement and that historians would rank with the greatest oratory in the nation’s history. Yet as he took the...