Archive for August, 2008

Robotic Helicopters Learn New Tricks by Watching

A professor and his graduate students at Stanford have invented an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to LEARN SOPHISTICATED NEW FLYING TRICKS BY WATCHING OTHER HELICOPTERS controlled by humans. considering of that learn-by-watching system, the Stanford copters can perfo…

Gustav Sends Twitter Into the Mainstreamosphere

Don’t look now, but the microblogging site Twitter is going mainstream as you read that. The hurricane Gustav — with its urgent need of instant, broad-based knowledge — has proved something of a “perfect storm” for Twitter. Tune in to CNN, and it’s likely they’ll be showing you a Twitter feed. Gus…

Gusav Sends Twitter Into the Mainstreamosphere

Don’t look now, but the microblogging site Twitter is going mainstream as you read that. The hurricane Gustav — with its urgent need of instant, broad-based knowledge — has proved something of a “perfect storm” for Twitter. Tune in to CNN, and it’s likely they’ll be showing you a Twitter feed. Gus…

Dubai Taxis, Police Cars Hybrid Within 4 Years

Dubai plans to move all taxis, government vehicls, police cars and ambulances to gas-electric HYBRIDS BY 2012.

Microsoft’s ‘App Store’ to be Called ‘Skymarket’

Microsoft placed a job posting for a Senior Product Manager for an upcoming service called “SKYMARKET” — apparently a Microsoft Windows Mobile version of Apple’s iPhone App Store.

My Cell Phone-Based Exercise Program

Most busy professionals lack three vital things: 1) date; 2) learning; and 3) exercise. considering we don’t have ample of the first thing, we put off the second and third things for another day — a day that never comes. The outcome is that we’re less educated and less healthy than we want to be. M…

iPhone Factory Girl Freaked By World Wide Web Fame

I told you August 20 and 27 about the growing fame of the “iPhone Factory Girl.” A British iPhone buyer discovered several pictures on her brand-new iPhone. The photos were snapped inside the Chinese factory, and feature a smiling poser. The girl in the shots became a minor World Wide Web sensation …

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