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Get your CRITICAL security fixes now for XP

Coming Soon: Google Voice Search
“A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.”

I knew it! Laser beans!!
The next generation of weapons in the U.S. arsenal could be straight out of science fiction: laser beams and heat rays. And they could be ready for action before you know it.

“Age Play” in Second Life. What will virtual realities do to us?!

Latest on PS3 — Far from complete!
We are about six months from launch, and debugging should be done, prototypes and dev kits should flow like water, and all the tame magazines should already have one. The situation is rather different though, they are nowhere, and there are two related reasons behind this.

Dell’s $10,000 Renegade sold out!

Quarter of species gone by 2050!
Using several models that project habitat changes, migration capabilities of various species, and related extinctions in 25 “hotspots,” scientists predict that a quarter of the world’s plant and vertebrate animal species would face extinction by 2050.

Complete AMD Roadmap
AMD will be moving swiftly over to AM2 and introducing energy efficient processors.

Analysis on Google’s DNA
An analysis of Google’s business structure that argues that the company’s unique organizational structure gives it the flexibility to consistently transform to meet any challenge the globe can offer.