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Submission + - Amazon, MS and Yahoo against Google's Library (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by anonymousNR on Friday August 21, 2009 @04:15PM

anonymousNR writes: Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many online works. "Google is trying to monopolise the library system," the Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle told BBC News.

The article criticizes the approach that is being taken by Google.

Submission + - Predictive Powers: A Robot That Reads Your Intenti (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Friday June 19, 2009 @01:07PM

anonymousNR writes: European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions could make human-robot interactions more natural.

I don't know if reading intentions is the right word here, it may be a media thing. But robots that actually can correct mistakes and help to complete a given task is something that would be very interesting to work with. This could be a very good step forward in robotics because joint work with a human is something that allows scientists to design a much "clever" robots.

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