| Wired Top Stories Updated : Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy' Launches on MySpace At long last, you can hear what looked like the ultimate rock 'n' roll vaporware. For free. Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:02:00 GMT British Accent Bollocks to Google iPhone App Google's voice-recognition mobile app for the iPhone has trouble with British accents, it would seem. Unless when say "MySpace" you mean "sex." Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:50:00 GMT YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums. The new format could be a big move for YouTube, as the video quality is over 80MB, which means that they are probably the same H.264 encoded mp4 files available in the iTunes store. Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:47:00 GMT New Star Trek Will Be Younger, Faster, Louder Director J.J. Abrams gives us his vision in this prequel to the original. Kirk is there, and so are Spock, Bones and Scotty. But is this really Star Trek we're watching? The preview clips are a little vague. Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:35:00 GMT Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals Criminals better watch their steps, as a Univerisity of Buffalo computer science professor develops a search engine for shoe prints left at crime scenes. With funding from the Justice Department, professor Sargur Srihari hopes his computational forensics will make life easier for shoe-identification experts, and harder for criminals. Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:58:00 GMT Increase Search Engine Traffic |