Mova creates markerless soft motion CGI technology

This photorealistic technology will change the way games and movies are made. It records soft motion video and turns them into 3D CGI. This is a huge step up from the skeletal marker system currently in use.

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Alexa opens up its thumbnail service to developers

Alexa begins opening up its thumbnail generation service to web developers to allow thumbnails of web sites on their web sites. The service costs about $1 for 5000 thumbnails to be returned.

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The 2007 Sebring will have a 20GB hard drive (w/ pics)

The 2007 Chrysler Sebring will have a 20GB Seagate SATA hard drive for ripping music and movies on to. It even has a 6.5 inch screen and best of all, a USB port.

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AMD has announced conference call for Monday morning

AMD has sent out a press release claiming they will have a conference call at 5am pacific time monday morning. Sounds like they struck a deal with ATI.

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AMD is in talks to buy ATI for 5.5 billion

AMD confirms that they intend on purchasing ATI for 5.5 billion and expect to announce a deal as early as Monday.

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Microsoft confirms moving into the music player market

Microsoft will be calling their player the Zune and using their cobranded with MTV Urge service to compete with iTunes. (with pictures)

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Yahoo tests not using restrictions on music

Yahoo has made Jessica Simpson's new song available DRM free, a recent poll had suggested they might be testing this market. Hopefully we will start seeing more of this in the music and movie industry. That is, as long as we show our support.

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Study shows that sharing your bed is bad for your health

A new study by the Vienna University in Australia shows that men have higher levels of stress after sharing their bed with their girlfriend/wife/fiance.

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Time Warner is slowly selling AOL

Time Warner is in talks with Telco Italia and British sky broadcasting to sell off its European division of AOL.

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Intel Core 2 Duo blows AMD off the #1 spot

Intel has released it's Core 2 Duo (Conroe) and it blows away the AMD FX 62 by all of the benchmarks. It has less power output and heat expenditure as well as faster core clock speeds then the FX series from AMD. It also has a smaller price, which is a nice little benefit of the AMD vs Intel processor wars. Hopefully we will be seeing these available for purchase on July 27th as long as they don't try to pull a vista.
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Ted Stevens thinks the internet is a series of pipes?

There is a short article and a small video on this. Ted Stevens is the chairman of the senate committe that oversees internet regulation. He says that he think the internet is a series of tubes and that it is getting clogged with porno and pirated movies which is preventing him from getting his email.

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Digg Digging Diggs Digg

Blaugh.com, "the (un)official comic of the blogosphere", has created a comic on Digg. From Blaugh: "The Internet came to a screeching halt last night when the megaportal Digg.com digged itself to digg. Someone posted a story about Digg to his digg account, then every single Digg member decided to Digg it at the same time..."

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Organic file storage that will hold 50TB of data

A professor at Harvard University in association with NEC has developed dvd-like discs that will hold up to 50TB of data and are based on organic life forms. He plans to have a product on the market in 12-24 months and already has a prototype he showed off at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Brisbane.

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Camera that detects weapons and bombs automatically

Brijot Imaging Systems has developed and implemented a camera that uses millimeter waves to see right through clothing and organic material to detect metal, plastic, ceramic or plastic devices of a certain millimeter wavelength. Looks like the lines at the airports are going to be much quicker.

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Camera that detects weapons and bombs automatically

Brijot Imaging Systems has developed and implemented a camera that uses millimeter waves to see right through clothing and organic material to detect metal, plastic, ceramic or plastic devices of a certain millimeter wavelength. Looks like the lines at the airports are going to be much quicker.

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Carbonite offers UNLIMITED data backup for $5!

Carbonite is offering to backup an unlimited amount of data automatically for you for $5 a month. The only restrictions are not backing up system files!

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Carbonite offers UNLIMITED data backup for $5!

Carbonite is offering to backup an unlimited amount of data automatically for you for $5 a month. The only restrictions are not backing up system files!

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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that their office suite will now support the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. The move comes in response to government requests for Microsoft products to be compatible with ODF, which include Belgium and Denmark, and the state government of Massachusetts (which happened to get 4 billion dollars in Microsoft software donated to their schools systems after they announced the pledge to only use ODF software in government offices).
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Despite the fact that we have all been googling things for years Merriam-Webster has now announced that google is officially a verb and has added it into their dictionaries. According to them the transitive verb means “to use the Google search engine to obtain information about something on the World Wide Web.” This isn't anything new and happened to Xerox also, when was the last time you made a Xerox copy? No, really. When was the last time you saw something made by Xerox?
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