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| Breaking: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 4:40pm |
| Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica, we’ve confirmed. The site will become part of Wired Digital (which in turn is under CondéNet, run by Sarah Chubb). Wired Digital assets include Wired.com and Reddit (acquired in 2006). The acquisition price will not be disclosed, but our sources say it is in the $25 [...] |
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| 17 Drug-Free Ways to Stay Awake |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 12:37am |
| Staying awake is easy… 5 shots of espresso and 2 lines of cocaine is all you need. You’ll certainly be wide awake and wired, but you may also die from a heart attack a few hours later. In all seriousness, conquering drowsiness before it overwhelms your mind can be quite a challenge without the help [...] |
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| Doctor's notes get clearer with speech recognit... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 9:00am |
| Speech recognition technology is being linked to an increase in adoption of Electronic Health Records as doctors find it easier to build more complete patient records than with handwritten notes.
   
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| Aliph's New Jawbone Headset: Smaller and More S... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 3:22am |
| Confession time: This is a quick headset review by a guy who's never liked headsets much. McCracken's First Law of Eyeglass Wearing correctly posits that it's impossible to comfortably hook more than one device behind your ear at one time....
      
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| Google Translate adds 10 new languages... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 5:10pm |
| Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager...and that's great news any way you say it. Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in making information universally accessible. As part of the machine translation team within Google Research, I'm happy to report we've been hard at work to overcome this challenge. We've recently added translation capabilities for 10 new languages to Google Transla... |
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| AideRSS Helps Track the Buzz |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 5:00pm |
| RSS tracking and ranking service AideRss (see our previous coverage) has slowly been accumulating features that make it more useful than ever. In addition to seeing which posts in an RSS feed are getting the most traction, you can see where the conversations are going on - most recently, they’ve added Twitter tracking to their [...] |
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| Exabytes’ 7th Anniversary Web Hosting Promotions |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 2:43pm |
Exabytes is celebrating its 7th anniversary and rewarding its customers with 7 great deals.
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| HealthWorldWeb: Find Doctors and Support Groups... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 5:30pm |
| Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here.
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Company Name: HealthWorldWeb
20 word description: HealthWorldWeb.com is a health-focused patients social network, doctors search portal and community-based reviews and recommendations engine for local medical providers.
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| Erykah Badu: Freestyle Mac |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 3:07pm |
| She hadn’t released a new album in five years. But that spell ended dramatically when singer/songwriter Erykah Badu sat down in front of her MacBook and fired up GarageBand. The music surged. “I learned how to use GarageBand by trial and error,” Badu says. “It’s like somebody stuck a plug in the back of my neck and uploaded a program to learn how to use GarageBand. It was automatic. Everything ... |
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