One month ago, Google put the word out that it was looking to build and test its own fiber-to-the-home networks in a couple of cities. The speeds would be up to 1 Gbps and the reach would initially be about 50,000 homes.
Immediately, hundreds of cities began making pitches to attract Google’s attention, some earnest, some [...]
Listen to this NPR story which delves more into the process used by CereProc to create these more acurate voices and some examples of their results.
In a landmark case today, the Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations saying that they did not act quickly enough to remove an online video that showed sadistic teen bullies pummeling and mocking an autistic boy.
In a very closely monitored case around the world, because of it’s implications for Internet privacy and [...]
By now we have all heard the story about Harriton High School in Lower Merion Township, PA giving their students laptops to use in school and then remotely switching on the web cams to purportedly “locate missing computers” which remain the property of the school. However, a student was approached by an assistant principal who [...]
Bloom Energy will be revealing to the world its potentially revolutionary new fuel cell system-The Bloom Box. Why revolutionary?
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