Michael Jackson decided to create a fifty-foot-tall robotic replica of himself that would roam the Las Vegas shooting out laser beams. “It would be the first thing people flying in would see,” he said.
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Researchers were developing a computer program to help make end-of-life medical decisions.
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The Center for the Digital Future announced that the average Internet user will make 4.6 “virtual pals” this year.
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Chinese scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population, and said that they had successfully mated robot fish.
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Europe is in the process of providing wide-spread access to cell phone television.
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The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.
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A new report from the monitor group ElectionLine.org is warning ten states are at risk of major voting problems in next month’s mid-term elections.
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President Bush decided that he controls outerspace.
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A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology.
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A Princeton computer science professor said electronic voting machines made by a company based in Ohio are vulnerable to hacking, probably because him and his student’s hacked into one as a class project.
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A major new report on electronic voting has concluded that the three most common types of electronic voting machines are all vulnerable to software attacks.
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Scientists in Korea revealed a new, attractive female robot that understands 400 words and can blink. “We are working,” said one roboticist, “on upgrading the android with the aim of making it move its legs by the end of this year.”
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A coalition of conservatives and progressive has formed to defeat a law that would allow Internet provider companies to decide which sites load up the fastest–based on who pays the most.
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When Daniel Hickey’s doctor suggested he have a microchip implanted under his skin to provide instant access to his computerized medical record, the 77-year-old retired naval officer immediately agreed.
“If you’re unconscious and end up in the emergency room, they won’t know anything about you,” Hickey said. “With this, they can find out everything they need to know right away and treat you better.”
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It was discovered that Al Qaeda is communicating via social networking website MySpace.com.
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Google is planning a massive online facility that could store copies of users’ hard drives. Plans for the “GDrive” were revealed accidentally after notes in a slideshow were wrongly published on Google’s site.
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In Ohio, a private video surveillance company called CityWatcher has embedded radio transmitter ID chips into two of its employees.
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Google refused to comply with a Bush Administration subpoena demanding the records for a week’s worth of search queries. Yahoo! and Microsoft, however, complied fully, while America Online said it had complied partially.
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[ditch your mobile phone, and get a squirrel.]
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The US Supreme Court decided that file-sharing companies are to blame for what users do with their software.
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