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From TechRepublic: Are you a jerk on the phone? You might want to be a bit nicer the next time you take that call. That’s because there’s new technology coming out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called the “Jerk-O-Meter.” The software measures stress levels in your voice and rates you on a scale of …
From TechRepublic: Why is AOL on the brink of giving away a fully loaded Hummer H2 and nearly $100,000 worth of gold bars and cash–all of which once belonged to an e-mail marketer? Both AOL members and non-members–all of whom will have a chance to win the goods–can thank the Can-Spam Act. The law, which …
From TechRepublic: Despite their best attempts, Linux software companies say they are still having a hard time luring average consumers away from the Windows environment–but that may not necessarily be a bad thing. Windows still dominates the PC world. About 90 percent of all desktops, laptops and even PDAs are powered by Microsoft, according to …
I first read about this in my ComputerWorld feed. Google is now offering RSS and ATOM feeds for their news page. Feeds are available for the different categories Google News offers (World, Business, Health, Sci/Tech, Entertainment) plus feeds are also available for customized searches as well.
From VNUnet: Scientists in Australia have used internet links to successfully perform microsurgery on cells located thousands of miles away in a southern California laboratory. The surgeons used a newly developed internet-based laser scissor-and-tweezers technology called RoboLase, demonstrating the potential of using the technology for real-time research activities between laboratories and to perform medical procedures …
From Time: What does 13-year-old Taylor Hern ♥? Lots of things: the actor Ewan McGregor, the color pink, the band My Chemical Romance, her boyfriend Alex. You would know all that if you visited her Xanga, a blog–home-page hybrid that is the modern teen’s public and interactive equivalent of a diary. You could even leave …
From CNN: Sgt. William Hamrick II witnessed the birth of his daughter Monday. That may seem unremarkable — except that Hamrick was 6,000 miles away in Iraq. When doctors induced labor Monday morning at Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital in Parkersburg, Hamrick was virtually at his wife’s side via live Internet video and satellite audio link. The …
From TechRepublic: When eBay’s clocks failed to jump forward an hour in 2001 to reflect daylight-saving time, the timing on auctions ran into snags, prompting some head-scratching from sellers and bidders. At the time, eBay blamed the glitch on a bug in Microsoft’s Visual C++ code. Microsoft had released a fix. On Monday, President Bush …
From Reuters (via Yahoo! News): Wikipedia, the Web encyclopaedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying Friday. In an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Wales, who launched Wikipedia with partner Larry …
From CNet News: Your legs may not seem all that smart, but they’re pretty good at letting you walk without having to think about what you’re doing. That hasn’t been the case with artificial limbs, which have long required wearers to put a lot of thought and effort into a simple stride. Now, though, a …