I recently had the opportunity to interview Shoutwire founder Justin Bunnell about the inspiration behind his site and the current state and future of social news promotion. Shoutwire is a community...
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Following last year's Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe, there were immediate calls for the development of new tsunami advance warning systems. Software developer Tea Vui Huang has released Mobile...
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Tunatic, currently in beta, is a new standalone freeware application that can identify the title and artist of a song playing from any music source. With an active internet connection and microphone,...
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Following up on the recent implementation of ticket-based voucher gambling, new gambling OS design is centering on networking machines so that their functions (e.g., game played, bet denominations)...
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In development for over four years at MIT, a new stackable and highly customizable concept two-person car with styling direction from renowned architect Frank Gehry explores the idea of using a...
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The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a 120+ page guide with proposed rules for the crew and passengers of space travelling vehicles, but not for the craft themselves. As not to interfere...
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XM Satellite Radio has partnered with VoiceBox Technologies to implement voice recognition capabilities into future XM receiver hardware. Utilizing a "conversational voice search"...
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A new class of personal aircraft, VLJ's (Very Light Jets), are scheduled to go into service during 2006 and are being touted as a revolutionary development for the air industry. These new...
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Ford Motor Co. put out a press release yesterday about their upcoming vehicle light technology. Touching briefly on concept cars, Ford has developed a solar-powered headlight system that charges...
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In the end-of-year habit of posting articles concerned with things to look out for in 2006, PC World has posted a thorough list of upcoming congressional legislation that will define government...
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A study released in December by duke university examining the state of gloom in United States engineering sectors has concluded the precarious outlook projected for its future has been exaggerated....
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The NBA's digital archive project aims to make its archive of nearly 60 years of content available for anyone on the internet to view and construct highlight reels with. Statistics will be...
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An Austrailian research effort called FutureDairy has developed milking robots specially designed for free range cows. Based on European milking machines, which release themselves from a cow but...
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The iPod Concept Competition is reaching its halfway point and I've only received two entries (both good) upto now. So if you're inspired and want to be in the running for a $50 Grand Prize...
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has completed the first prototype of an exoskeleton, Bleex 1, which will allow soldiers to carry 70 pounds of supplies on their backs (in...
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Europe's Galileo GPS project reached an important milestone today when a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted a prototype test satellite into space from Kazahistan. In development, the EU has acquired...
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Science Magazine's year-end list of major breakthroughs is somewhat a testament to major news stories of the year; part controversy and part tragic. Major studies providing evidence towards the...
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A team of researchers at Meiji University in Japan have developed a robot that can recognize the difference between a mirror image of itself and another robot with the same appearance. The...
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Earlier in the year Microsoft's IDSA PC Design Competition solicited designs of new form factors augmenting the PC experience in four categories; Personal Productivity, Entertainment,...
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E-Mail filtering firm MX Logic has released data regarding the level of spam messages entering their system, which is down to 67% of its traffic from 73.66% for the first eight months of 2005 as...
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Honda Motor Co. announced plans on Monday to open a facility capable of mass producing solar cells in 2007. Citing increased demand for alternative energy, the factory is projected to pull in...
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Google's recently released end-of-year Zeitgeist is a record of their most commonly entered search strings over 2005. Its an interesting read that gives perspective on what the internet accessing...
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The U.S. Patent Office has granted Microsoft intellectual property rights for an interactive TV system that will allow television viewers to pause streaming content and follow hyperlinks to on-screen...
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