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NASA's talking computer to help astronauts

News HAL 9000, the talking computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, is coming closer to reality. It's a lot like spam-filtering, or speech spam, it has to distinguish when you're really talking to it. Hopefully the real-world version will be nicer.

27 June 2005, 10:26

Intel's Viiv-talking vision for PCs

News Early adopters of PCs based on Intel's Viiv technology are having as much trouble understanding what's so different about their new computers as they are pronouncing the brand name. Viiv (which rhymes with 'jive') is the heart of Intel's vision for...

7 April 2006, 11:26

High-tech photos are real talking pictures

News If a picture is worth a thousand words, how valuable would it be if someone added a soundtrack? Italian start-up Zanetti Studio aims to find out. The Milan-based company is preparing a new photo printer, called Speekysmart, that imprints a magnetic...

18 November 2005, 9:50

Microsoft looks to Vista at WinHEC

News At this year's Microsoft conference for Windows hardware experts, the software giant will be talking about much more than the operating system. We are talking about a lot more near-term opportunity, in addition to the ten-year vision.

23 May 2006, 11:20

News.blog: Police search for 'cell phone bandit'

News Police in Virginia have issued warrants for the arrest of a 19-year-old woman who robbed four banks while talking on her mobile phone. As in the others, the robber exchanged few or no words with the teller, because she apparently was busy talking...

15 November 2005, 9:29

BBC looks at future online options

News The BBC is talking to Google and other major names in new media as the corporation looks into possibilities for the future. Of course the BBC is talking to Google and other companies in the new media sphere, as are all other broadcasters," a BBC...

24 January 2007, 9:23

Brits call for ASBOs for bad mobile habits

News A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates are: people talking loudly on the phone; a person texting while talking to them; loud music being played on phones; using a phone in a restaurant; and swearing on the phone in public.

Tags: mobiles, talking, european, women

12 May 2008, 9:59

Tech not a concept to youngsters

News Talking to them about the role of technology in their lifestyle would be like talking to kids in the 80s about the role the park swing or the telephone played in their social lives -- it's invisible," Davidson said.

25 July 2007, 11:14

Robot doctors lend their heads to surgeons

News What's been used in the past is a static set-up where you would have professionals talking to each other. In the clinical trials that are going on at the moment we are looking at patient perception -- what they feel about a robot coming in and...

10 February 2006, 9:53

Microsoft's 'Cloud OS' solidifies

News In a speech to partners at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Colorado, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer promised that the company would be talking to developers later this year about the first version of its developer platform...

13 July 2007, 8:55

Electronic clothing set to shock gadgeteers

News Eleksen is also talking with Taiwanese manufacturers to release a £55 fabric keyboard that can be rolled up into a tube, as well as other PC peripherals. One large Asian manufacturer plans to release a line of coats with the fabric for the mid...

27 May 2005, 9:53

Online games attract serious thought

News We try to focus in on a set of profound questions and get new and exciting people talking together about the answers to those questions. And to Noveck, it is the opportunity to create a State of Play community comprised of previous attendees and...

5 October 2005, 11:28

Power lunching with wizards and elves

News I think that what happens is as more people start playing and more people start sitting around and talking about it over dinner conversations in our industry, the more people want to end up playing, and I think a lot of people are moving to our...

16 February 2006, 10:18

Soderbergh shakes up DVD release thinking

News In recent months a few powerful Hollywood insiders, led by Disney chief Robert Iger, have been talking about the need for dramatic changes in the windowing system in order to respond to those challenges.

13 January 2006, 10:54

News.blog: Hitatchi to start new storage company?

News We haven't able to confirm this, but we've heard it now from a couple of people: Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems.

14 January 2008, 9:10