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Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia

(AP) -- When I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at random.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Calif. Hmong community launches online translator

(AP) -- When Phong Yang, a Hmong refugee from Laos, landed in California's Central Valley - via stops in Thailand and France - he was 14 years old. He learned to speak Hmong from his parents, but today he has a hard time ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Turning iPhone into spiPhone: Smartphones' accelerometer can track strokes on nearby keyboards

It's a pattern that no doubt repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile phones on their desks and begin to work. What ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Dolphins, aliens, and the search for intelligent life

How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, such as the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

Speech recognition leaps forward

During Interspeech 2011, the 12th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association being held in Florence, Italy, from Aug. 28 to 31, researchers from Microsoft Research will present work that dramatically ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Smartphone foreign language apps speak to world

Smartphone applications have left many office tools and devices collecting dust. Add language translators to that growing list.

Technology / Software

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team reveals secret life of Isaac Newton on new website

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sir Isaac Newton, an icon of scientific revelation, led a secret life as a scholar of the mysterious art of alchemy. For the last six years, William Newman has been exploring that hidden life ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The world: a global village called Babel

(PhysOrg.com) -- European scientists have developed groundbreaking technology to enable machine translation using statistical analysis. Now linguistic diversity can be found in translation.

Technology / Software

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NZ PhD research documents endangered language

(PhysOrg.com) -- PhD graduate Laura Dimock spent nine months on an island in Vanuatu documenting the Nahavaq language, a previously undocumented language in danger of extinction.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Carnegie Mellon releases data on Haitian Creole to hasten development of translation tools

In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have publicly released spoken and textual data they've compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Web-based relief tools emerging to help Haiti

(AP) -- Hundreds of tech volunteers spurred to action by Haiti's killer quake are adding a new dimension to disaster relief, developing new tools and services for first responders and the public in an unprecedented ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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