Google Launches Audio Indexing

Google has a new app in beta called GAudi, which is going to crawl political youtube vids and make transcripts searchable."As the Web becomes more sophisticated and audio and video becomes a more important part of our online lives, we need something that will help us sift...

Stop unwanted catalogs. Save the environment.

I have reduced junk mail by opting out of junk mail. All of a sudden this holiday season, I began to get about five catalogs per day. Thanks to NPR and Catalog Choice  I am opting out of catalog delivery now. Since the companies spend about .80 on each catalog, they...

Paranoid About Neighborhood Kids, MASS man kills family, then himself on RR t...

"Neighbors knew Robert McDermott as a man who believed neighborhood children were plotting to gang up on him. He hid in the bushes with a camera to catalog their identities, they say. He also had a volatile relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, with whom he...

Lost your keys? Or the Spear that pierced Jesus?

The Catalog of Missing Objects: "The Catalog of Missing Objects (COMO) database should be live before the end of February 2007 and will eventually list thousands of objects and pieces of information sought by scholars all over the world. Come back and follow the stories of...

Web catalog offers prison-made products (AP)

" HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Internet shopping knows no boundaries, not even for products made behind bars. Maryland Correctional Enterprises, the manufacturing division of the state Division of Correction, has put its 182-page catalog online. Now anyone can see, if not buy, hundreds...

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Fans get chance at new 'Star Trek' bible (Reuters)

" NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans of "Star Trek" get a new chronicle of the enormously popular franchise with the release next week of a 500-page catalog of the memorabilia to be auctioned off this fall in Manhattan. The splashy two volumes feature some 4,000 items, from a...

Implanted Identification -- The Next Evolution of RFID

RFID chips are already implanted in people. At some time in the future, you might be offered RFID implantation. It's much easier than carrying plastic ID or paper ID.

Consumer reports finds personal privacy concerns in planned uses of RFIDs

May, 2006. The tiny radio chip traveling with you in your shorts.

the first human cyborg

March, 2002.  Cyborg technology enables the human nervous system to be linked to computer. The rifidborg is an RFID extension of the cyborg.