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  • Google Translate now serves 200 million people daily

    (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Translate provides a billion translations a day for 200 million users, the company revealed here Friday at ...

  • Why this old-school Trekkie loves the Star Trek reboots

    Crave writer Amanda Kooser, a longtime Trekkie, looks at "Star Trek Into Darkness" through the lens of a long "Star Trek" history and (mostly) embraces the new ...

  • Gallo Micro SE How can a speaker this small sound this good

    Micro SE speaker ($239) is a tiny steel sphere, just 4 inches in diameter -- that's the size of an orange. It's an audiophile quality performer, capable of delivering high-resolution sound and a big, downright spacious stereo image. In fact, the imaging of the Micro SE and the slightly ...

  • New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft

    Reuters © Visitors play with Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo, September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Kim ...

  • Google Glass cool or creepy

    Google Glass, a cross between a mobile computer and eyeglasses that can both record video and surf the Internet, is now available to a select few but is already among the year's most buzz-worthy new gadgets. The device has geeks all aflutter but is unnerving everyone from lawmakers to casino operators worried about the potential for hitherto unimagined privacy and policy violations."I ...

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The Faculty

"The Faculty" makes both director Robert Rodriguez and writer Kevin Williamson look like one-trick ponies--hot Hollywood commodities who can't deliver the goods over the long-haul. "The Faculty" is basically a watered-down and disappointing version of what they do best: Williamson's ability to write believable teenage characters and subvert the horror genre, and Rodriguez's ability to choreograph ... ...

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  • Google Glass the futures in face recognition

    Google Glass, the total power of the web was literally within sight of every conversation. Using a screen positioned just above each wearer's right eye, Glass is able to offer, for now, directions, search results, information, reminders and emails without even the need to reach for a mobile phone. Thanks to its voice-activated camera, a photo or ten-second video is as easy as saying ...

  • Could Tumblr turn into Yahoos MySpace

    Can Yahoo and Tumblr >>> (Credit: CNET screenshot) Marissa Mayer wants Yahoo to attract a younger, hipper and cooler audience for Yahoo. Its audience of 700 million is aging, and the 18-year-old brand that defined the first era of the web doesn't have a compelling entry point to attract the coveted 18-to-34 demographic. Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology conference ...

  • Googles wearable Glass gadget cool or creepy

    By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette ...

  • Pixels camera failure only one of many

    Google Keep note-taking comes to Chrome Ian Ellison-Taylor, Director of Web Platform Product Management, agreed. "We have done a lot of work on performance per tab, and on our own apps, as well," he said. The first steps toward solving the virtual memory problem has been completed, Kay said. They've been able to get a tab to recognize when it's streaming audio. The ...

  • Want a 10-foot-tall painting of Star Wars action figures

    (Credit: Kickstarter) Do you still have your original "Star Wars" action figures? Mine are tucked away in storage, but looking at Rob Burden's artwork makes me want to dig them out. The San Francisco artist is so obsessed with his old "Star Wars" figures that he does 10-foot-tall oil paintings of them, like "The Birth of a Jedi," above. The works ...

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