Video of DEKA's robotic arm. Dean Kamden, founder of DEKA (and inventor of the Segway) shows off the "Luke Arm".

The pro-P2P Greens EFA party in the EU parliament made something of a ruckus a few weeks back over the a campaign called ?I Wouldn?t Steal.? In January, the Greens had determined that promotions of anti-piracy propaganda had gone too far and were purposely misleading the public as to the facts of peer-to-peer technologies, and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "EU Plans Launch of BitTorrent Client: P2P-Next", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/20/e
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LiveVideo isn’t new to the space by any stretch of the imagination. The YouTube rival has been around for well over a year now, debuting its video-sharing network in December, 2006. But today marks LiveVideo’s official launch, and the man behind it, MySpace founder Brad Greenspan, is making a big ado about LiveVideo [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "LiveVideo Officially Launches. Did You Notice?", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/2
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37signals has delivered an update to its Rails-based Backpack data organization utility. Whereas the software would formerly only operate as a personal manager for users, it has been updated to provide groups of people the option to keep track of all manner of information. The company behind the software is now marketing the product as the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "37signals Backback Organizer Now Offers Options for Groups", url: "http://
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After becoming (almost) fully integrated into MySpace, Photobucket has just released a few upgrades to its slide show creation tool. The upgrades are pretty basic, but tie in quite well with the over-abundant usage of shiny, flashy things with which to adorn your slide show, in turn adorning your MySpace profile (or any other [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Photobucket's Slide Show Upgrades for More Customization", url: "http://mashable.com/20
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The so-called ?death of the page view? has been a prediction on many people?s lists for a long time. The last time I recall the subject getting a thorough kick around the blogosphere was in late 2006 when Steve Rubel authored a post titled ?the imminent demise of the page view.? While [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Daily Poll: Is Pay-for-Engagement the Future of Online Advertising?", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/20/engagement-based

The university will give free tuition to most undergraduates whose families earn less than $100,000 a year. Stanford University today announced a big boost in financial aid that would give free tuition to most undergraduates from families that earn less than $100,000 a year and a complete package of tuition, room and board to those w
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State legislative analyst calls on lawmakers to consider raising taxes not just rely on spending cuts as Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed. California 's budget shortfall has swollen from $14.5 billion to $16 billion, according to the state's chief budget analyst, who calls on lawmakers to reject the governor's approach for closing the deficit through spending cut
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Filed under: Arcade, Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/Microsoft_announces_user_created_Xbox_Live_games'; At Microsoft's GDC 2008 keynote address, the company announced a "community arcade" allowing user-created games to be distributed to Xbox 360 owners worldwide. "Now, 10 million people on Xbox Live get to play your game," said Microsoft Game Developer Group General Manager Chris Satchell. Free trials
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Filed under: Portable, GDC Microsoft's Chris Satchell just announced that XNA Game Studios games can also be made for Zune. He showed off a brief demo of Zauri - a topdown shooter. XNA Zune games can also support custom soundtracks (this is an MP3 player after all). Satchell promises that you'll be able to take games from Windows, to Xbox, to Zune. No word on the availability of this functionality on Zunes; more as we know it.Permalink | Email th
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/Ninja_Gaiden_2_coming_to_North_America_June_3'; At Microsoft's GDC 2008 keynote address, Tomonobu Itagaki just announced that Ninja Gaiden 2 will be released in North America on June 3, with a worldwide release coming in early June.Itagaki showed off a brand new demo of the game running on "real hardware" at the keynote. The demo level featured battles with enromous
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, GDC digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/Gears_of_War_2_officially_announced_coming_Nov_08'; In what could only be considered as good news for the franchise's cult following, Microsoft and Epic Games have announced their intention to give Gears of War another go. Despite only scraping by with a couple of million units sold, Microsoft is determined to help the motley bunch of macho marines break into the nich
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I have to say, I'm impressed at the coverage that news about our production Hadoop deployment in Yahoo! Search got yesterday (and today). Here's a quick list of the stories. Yahoo! Launches World's Largest Hadoop Production Application by Eric Baldeschwieler Yahoo! Search running Apache Hadoop on Large Scale by me Open source grid computing takes off by Matt McAlister Yahoo Search Wants to Be More Like Google, Embraces Hadoop on TechCrunch, c
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Liz Hurley has reportedly gagged a maid who claimed the model paid her just £1.40 an hour.

Amy Winehouse missed a crucial rehearsal for tonight's BRIT Awards (20.02.08) after discovering her imprisoned husband is using heroin.

inherited his talent from his mother Victoria after he showed off his break dancing skills at the group's New York show on Monday (18.02.08).

A judge put the brakes on Britney Spears' driving-without-a-license case Wednesday after her lawyers said they don't believe the troubled pop star is capable of resolving the matter.

Filed under: Paparazzi Video, Brad and AngelinaTMZ.com: Fresh from a weekend in the snow, Angelina Jolie and son Maddox spent some time at the movies yesterday. Their flick of choice? "The Spiderwick Chronicles."Mommy's "naked CGI movie" is long gone from theaters. See Also Did Pitt Throw a Hissy... Read more