Google's Street View Car (Autoblog) - 0 views
Lying - 48 views
In this situation, the man should be asked if he wants to hear straight away and the doctors should know and understand the immediate phycological impacts on sharing the truth straight away, and th...
Satnav blunder leads to white van air rescue - Yahoo! Cars - 1 views
Google Grabs Personal Info Off Wi-Fi Networks (NPR) - 2 views
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Google acknowledged Friday that it inadvertently collected private information from the Wi-Fi networks inside people's homes. Google isn't the only company that uses cars to photograph neighborhoods for its mapping service, but it acknowledged its vehicles also contain receivers that pick up Wi-Fi signals. The receivers were supposedly just collecting the names and addresses of Wi-Fi networks to use in mapping programs for smart phones.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft previews new controller - 0 views
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The controller uses a microphone combined with visual and infrared cameras to control the onscreen action.
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Two demos were on show at gamescom for people to try out, including a playable version of Burnout Paradise in which users control cars using an imaginary steering wheel, moving their feet forwards or backwards to control the speed.
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Microsoft has allowed the public to get their hands on its new hands-free games controller for the first time.The US firm showed off the "Natal" technology, designed for use with its Xbox 360 console, at the European games convention gamescom in Germany.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Exploding' iPhones investigated - 0 views
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iPhones and iPods heating up or bursting into flames in the US and the UK.
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The system issue alerts for multiple products every week, sometimes leading to mass product recalls, but often with no consequence.
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"I took it out of my pocket and held it to my ear and saw the screen crack up like a car windscreen," he told AFP.
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Market slumps for $3,000 luxury cell phones - CNN.com - 0 views
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Got a few grand to spare for a $3,000 phone? Yeah, we didn't think so. Nobody does -- and that's a problem for the makers of luxury phones, such as Motorola, Bang & Olufson, LG and Vertu.
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Motorola has already gotten the memo. Earlier this week, the company reportedly canceled the Ivory E18, a device tentatively priced around $3,000. The phone had met with lack of interest from telecom carriers. Motorola declined to comment.
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But Nuovo isn't convinced. "Take watches and cars," he says. "They all run the same but everyone has a unique way of delivering them stylistically. We can do the same with phones."
Warning, Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous To Your Health: Gear + Gadgets: GQ - 2 views
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Earlier this winter, I met an investment banker who was diagnosed with a brain tumor five years ago. He's a managing director at a top Wall Street firm, and I was put in touch with him through a colleague who knew I was writing a story about the potential dangers of cell-phone radiation. He agreed to talk with me only if his name wasn't used, so I'll call him Jim. He explained that the tumor was located just behind his right ear and was not immediately fatal—the five-year survival rate is about 70 percent. He was 35 years old at the time of his diagnosis and immediately suspected it was the result of his intense cell-phone usage. "Not for nothing," he said, "but in investment banking we've been using cell phones since 1992, back when they were the Gordon-Gekko-on-the-beach kind of phone." When Jim asked his neurosurgeon, who was on the staff of a major medical center in Manhattan, about the possibility of a cell-phone-induced tumor, the doctor responded that in fact he was seeing more and more of such cases—young, relatively healthy businessmen who had long used their phones obsessively. He said he believed the industry had discredited studies showing there is a risk from cell phones. "I got a sense that he was pissed off," Jim told me. A handful of Jim's colleagues had already died from brain cancer; the more reports he encountered of young finance guys developing tumors, the more certain he felt that it wasn't a coincidence. "I knew four or five people just at my firm who got tumors," Jim says. "Each time, people ask the question. I hear it in the hallways." It's hard to talk about the dangers of cell-phone radiation without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. This is especially true in the United States, where non-industry-funded studies are rare, where legislation protecting the wireless industry from legal challenges has long been in place, and where our lives have been so thoroughly integrated with wireless technology that to suggest it might be a problem—maybe, eventually, a very big public-health problem—is like saying our shoes might be killing us.
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