Archive for July 25th, 2008

Robocars (Robot Cars) How Geeks can save the planet

Friday, July 25th, 2008

A series of essays about the possible future of autonomous robot cars, and how building them can save millions of lives, trillions of dollars and enable the electric car or other experimental fuels to save the planet and wean the USA off of foreign oil.

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‘Last Lecture’ Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose “Last Lecture” became an Internet sensation and bestselling book, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 47.

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Private social network Facebook to go Web wide

Friday, July 25th, 2008

By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web,…

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Obama wants more from Germany

Friday, July 25th, 2008

By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - If Europeans had a vote, polls suggest Democratic candidate Barack Obama would be a shoo-in for U.S. president, but his speech to a huge crowd in Berlin showed he would be a more demanding partner than many…

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