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To boldly go where his father went
AS A leading computer game developer, Richard Garriott earned millions creating fantasy kingdoms and out-of-this world storylines. Yesterday, his ultimate dream became reality
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Computers fool some of people some of time
COMPUTERS yesterday moved a step closer to artificially creating human conversation, with experts saying the development will see robots more involved in our lives.
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Golden Age for TV beckons
People attend MIPCOM in Cannes, southern France, in 2007. A golden age for television beckons as established TV companies go head on with the Internet and other new digital media platforms to woo audiences worldwide.
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Music fans back legal downloads
Online music pirates can be put off by warnings from their net firm, suggests a survey.
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Austinite launches into space
Expedition 18 is carrying renowned computer game designer, Richard Garriott, and two crew mates to a docking with the International Space Station Tuesday.
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Interview, Erik Huggers: 'The last bastion is the living room'
Plenty of BBC executives have provoked fierce criticism over the years. But Erik Huggers, a former Microsoft executive who this year took over as director of its future media and technology (FMT) division, must be unique in facing down an angry mob on his first day. "People said 'oh my God, an executive from Microsoft in our precious BBC. Rome is on fire'," he says. "We had people picketing ...
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Computers lost for words during Turing thought test
"How's it going?" "Just a moment! I'll start my self-diagnosis algorithm and let you know the results." "Yes, you do that. Ready?" "I can't answer you. It seems my self-diagnosis module is on strike. It wants to diagnose other things as well." Anyone who has ever felt that their computer has a mind of its own will sympathise with the experience of attempting to get some sense out of a ...
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Hackers force Al-Arabiya site name change
Sectarian cyber warfare in the Middle East has claimed its highest-profile victim yet, forcing a leading pan-Arab TV station to change its internet domain name. Al-Arabiya Television, based in Dubai, is taking legal action in the US to prevent further hacking after its website was hit by "organized cyber piracy by extremists," the channel said at the weekend. Last Friday its hacked website ...
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Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island PC review
Publisher: City Interactive Developer: City Interactive System: PC Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista; DirectX 9.0c; 2.0 GHz processor; 512 MB RAM; GeForce 5700 or Radeon 9700 with 128 MB; 3 GB hard disk space; internet or LAN connection Genre: FPS Release date: Available now Review by: Andrew Clark If I close my eyes and imagine a [...]
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Young make 'great schlep' to persuade a sceptical generation to vote Barack Obama
Internet viral movement leads dozens of young Jewish Americans to go on conversion mission to Florida
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Transitway to have high-tech element
STAMFORD - The city has awarded a Texas firm a $4 million contract to design and outfit the downtown Urban Transitway with a computerized network that would broadcast traffic and bus updates to commuters.
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North West Evening Mail
A BARROW dad, new to auction site Ebay, says his experience with the internet giant has caused him a Wii bit of bother in the run up to Christmas. Lee Goude, of Piel View Grove, snapped up a Nintendo Wii games console for his son Joshua’s Christmas present.
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Hackers force Al-Arabiya site name change
Latest example of online sectarian warfare blamed on 'organised cyber piracy by extremists'
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Al Qaeda defendants get laptops at Guantánamo, judge rules
Guantánamo guards must furnish confessed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators with enough battery power to use their prison camp laptops 12 hours a day -- but the 9/11 accused can't surf the Internet, a military judge ruled.
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Spyware, lack of memory may cause computer freeze
Question: I am still using Windows XP on a computer that is about 4 years old. It's worked fine until recently. But now, at least twice a week, the screen freezes. The mouse won't work and I'm unable to type. If I wait 10 or 15 seconds, things return to normal.
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NRL ready to spark rights bidding war
CHANNEL Nine's stranglehold on broadcasting rugby league matches free to air is threatened by an NRL push to have its matches broadcast on several television networks and internet platforms by 2013.
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Music fans back legal downloads
Nearly three quarters of online music pirates would be be put off by warnings from their internet provider, suggests a survey.
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The Life Browser: On the web today...
The nation's top actors may be hot-footing it over the pond to Hollywood but, with a little help from 'El Mariachi' director Robert Rodriguez (right), Brit flicks can survive. The father of guerrilla film-making has launched an online movie school to inspire new British cinematic talent.
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Study: Mobile Web sites need Improvement
A new study suggests that the usability of many mobile Web sites still needs improvement.
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Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: I've recently learnt that my 11-year-old daughter sent a vile email to a boy at her ...
Dear Virginia, I've recently learnt that my 11-year-old daughter sent a vile email to a boy at her school. The boy's mother says my daughter used foul language and wrote that she'd like to kill him slowly and painfully, after he stopped 'going out' with another girl. My daughter is charming and I know she didn't mean this, but on email, everything can get twisted. She wrote this email ...
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Hemet Cops Bust Dopes Selling Dope on Craigslist
So let's say you've got some high-quality homegrown all bagged up and ready to go but no one to buy it--I mean, let's face it, the economy these days doesn't leave much room for luxury items--where can you go? Well, the internet, obviously. Since the goods have a pretty fixed street value, eBay might seem out of the question, so the next logical choice for online wheeling, and, in this case, ...
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Famous last words: Letters from Miles Kington
Dear Gill, When you've got cancer, and you feel it entitles you to start sentences with the rather flashy words, "When you've got cancer", it must be extremely irritating for all those other people who have not got cancer to hear us say, "When you have got cancer", as if it automatically makes us wiser or morally superior or more experienced in life or more dignified, whereas we are ...
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donga.com[English donga]
More than half of Korean teens have used other people’s IDs to gain access to adult or online game sites, a report submitted by the Commission on Youth Protection to opposition lawmaker Kim Chun-jin said yesterday.
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Computers lost for words during Turing thought test
Machines still playing catch-up when it comes to dinner party chat, trial proves
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Average Issue Readership General Public PARC Media Index 1997, Saudi Arabia
With technology opening the new doors of communication and the distribution of news and information, ArabNews Online is not bound by physical limitations. ArabNews Online is published by ArabNews from its offices located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is now available to readers around the globe.
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