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YouTube, the most famous video site in the world, is
planning to introduce full-length TV shows. Even if people are used to watching
short clips, to a maximum of 10 minutes, Google, YouTube has decided to sign a
partnership with CBS to broadcast TV shows like “Dexter,” “Star Trek” or “Beverly
Hills, 90210.”
This way, YouTube may finally achieve its expectations in
the financial plan. The long videos will include advertising before, during and
after each episode. Before the company was bought by Google, the YouTube
founders had resisted the so-called preroll, midroll and postroll...
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The car market is in decline in the U.S.,
considering the degrading economy and the continuous concern regarding
pollution and global warming. Also, the demand of four-wheel drive SUV’s is
decreasing, as in-city traffic has become more than unbearable.
The market is, however, open for the eco-friendly hybrid
cars and small cars with reduced gas consumption averages. In light of the new
demands, Mazda has revealed the car to meet current expectations: Mazda3. The
small car has already received extremely positive reviews, despite its very
recent unveiling.
It is estimated...
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Google Labs, with its software engineer Jon Perlow, released
an application that can stop people under the influence of alcohol from sending
e-mails they normally wouldn’t send to their boss, ex-girlfriend and the list
can go on. The program consists of a few math questions that the user has to
answer in about one minute. If he passes the test, he can still forward the
e-mail. If the alcohol keeps him from doing the calculations, Google will briefly
tell him: “Water and bed for you. Or try again”.Of course, it’s an optional
application that can allow you to avoid it if you really don’t...
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Microsoft
has recently annouced that, on November 19, they would be launching an update
to their Xbox Live interface, called “New Xbox Experience.”
The company revealed the information during a keynote
address at the Tokyo Game Show, a video game exposition / convention
held in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan, between October 9 and October 12.
Scheduled
to be released in 26 countries, the redesigned interface will be localized
in 19 languages and it will join another makeover, which the Xbox Live's
Marketplace has undergone. The latter is a virtual market that has...
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NASA said it is pushing ahead with the launch of the next Mars mission, but it will certainly need more funds to do it. The mission is scheduled to be carried out in 2009 and will launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the biggest planetary rover yet, and land it on the Red Planet. While NASA engineers are working hard to cope with the technical challenges of the mission, the space agency is considering another funds boost. The mission’s budged has already grown from $1.6 billion to $1.9 billion and now it will go even higher. NASA officials wouldn’t say how high. The agency’s...
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Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have developed a device which...
Ask is going for a new look and
a restructured team, after it announced to give up 8 percent of...
Stanford University and UC
Berkley have joined forces to help bring back science and technology to...
What will you see next time you
go to a gym? An iPod, of course! Nike and Apple want to give a new...
Steve Jobs went face to face with
Apple shareholders on the company’s annual meeting on Tuesday,...
The gaming community suffered a terrible loss on Tuesday,
when Ernest Gary Gygax, the role-playing...
You would think that Microsoft’s
initiative on Monday to open up the beta testing to the wide...
AMD unveiled a new motherboard, created especially for
gamers and multimedia lovers. The AMD 780...
What are the odds for Microsoft
to get Yahoo? At this point, it seems like anything but good, as...
Less than a year since it was launched, Google Gears is now available
for the mobile phones....
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