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Submission + - Gmail Call Recording Appears To Be Rolling Out Wid (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Monday November 22, 2010 @02:03PM

anonymousNR writes: Back in August, Gmail launched what is perhaps my favorite new feature ever: integration with Google Voice, which lets you make and receive calls directly from your computer.

Earlier this month, there were some initial reports that Google had improved on this feature with a nifty addition: the ability to record inbound Google Voice calls directly from Gmail. Now it looks like Google is rolling out the feature more broadly ââ we've polled a few people and they're all seeing it, and there are plenty of reports on Twitter of people noticing it for the first time.

Submission + - Robot Makes Ethical Decisions : Discovery News (discovery.com)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Thursday November 18, 2010 @03:14PM

anonymousNR writes: A software program takes into account the different obligations a robot must face — such as doing good, not causing harm — when deciding how to act.

In the case of a patient taking medication, the robot's program weighs the potential benefits the patient will have if she takes her medicine, the harm that may come to her if she doesn't and also her right to autonomy. In the video demonstration below (complete with funky background music), the robot reminds the patient to take the medication and then after the patient says "no" a couple of times, decides finally to tell the doctor.

really do we want this kind of robot for medical help ???

Submission + - AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Join Forces in New Mob (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @01:46PM

anonymousNR writes: Leading U.S. mobile operators AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile have announced a new mobile payments service called Isis, which will allow customers to make payments using their mobile ...

Submission + - The Child-Driven Education (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:45PM

anonymousNR writes: Education Scientist from India Sugata Mitra has done a brilliant job in opening a new methodology of teaching and learning with the help of internet. Instead of working on improving schools, he directly worked on the aspect of teaching and learning itself.
Its amazing what children can accomplish when "we" let information be availabel to them instead of channelling information and dumbing it down to "make kids understand".

Theres a ted video link also available in the article.

Submission + - Mozilla's open system for video subtitles (drumbeat.org)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:41PM

anonymousNR writes: Mozilla's drumbeat starts off a project to put subtitles on every video available out there.

web video is beginning to rival television, but there isn’t a good open resource for subtitling. Here’s our mission: we’re trying to make captioning, subtitling, and translating video publicly accessible in a way that’s free and open, just like the Web.
Our approach:

Make a simple and ubiquitous way to request, create, and translate subtitles for any video
Work with others to define open protocols so that whenever subtitles for a video exist, any website or video player will be able to retrieve them
Create a community space for people who subtitle video, to encourage contributions and facilitate collaboration

sure this sound like a great idea. Because recently after those "The Downfall" videos one might ask is it worth the trouble.

Submission + - Internet nominated for Noble Peace Prize (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by anonymousNR on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @02:29PM

anonymousNR writes: Given the way Noble Peace prizes have been in the past, it is interesting to see Internet being nominated.
But internet is a service and does not represent individual or community for that matter.
Can this kind of service be represented ? Then who would go to receive the prize ? Al Gore ?(kidding)

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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