BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Another great bringer of inspiration has passed. Arthur C. Clarke was the author of several famous science fiction works, from 2001 to Rendezvous with Rama. I have written that Gary Gygax inspired others to creativity. Clarke did ...READ»
Yesterday America Online announced that in the next month they will be offering VoIP, or voice over internet protocol. Such internet phone services have been much cheaper than your typical land line.
Could this mean a re-emergence ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 34 Tue Mar 3, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Microsoft gave a public showing of its futurologist vision of 2019 the other day at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, and it's set the interwebs a-quiver with excitement. But if you have a bit of think about it, it's ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 29 Fri Nov 20, 2009 at 11:42 AM
You know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control computers with your ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 22 Mon Feb 2, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Making a PC generate sounds that resemble human speech is relatively simple. But making a machine sound convincingly human is very tricky. Yet IBM claims to have coded a synthetic voice that is the more similar to a human voice than ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 22 Thu May 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Vodafone U.K. has done something astonishing, something very uncharacteristic of a cellphone operator--it made things much cheaper for its users. Specifically, the mobile network operator is experimenting with totally abolishing ...READ»