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...sing, dance, kick a ball?and chat. The company plans to equip the device with a 60,000-word vocabulary and the ability to recognize 10 human faces and voices. The SDR-4X could hit the market as early as next year, but it will cost a good chunk of an annual salary. Sony doesn't expect to sell many. The SDR-4X "is a symbolic product," Amagai concedes...
...N.Y.S.E. proposals in this area are sound: more than half of a board should be independent of management, and those directors should make up all of the audit, nominating and compensation committees. But the proposals don't go far enough. Board members should buy a large chunk of a company's stock as the price of entry, and be paid only in shares or options with long vesting periods. Nothing promotes rigorous oversight like an economic stake. There needs to be a clear definition of "independent" director to exclude those who even indirectly receive any benefit from the company beyond...
...Eliot Spitzer limped into office as New York's attorney general four years ago, he was an unlikely populist crusader. Having finished dead last in the Democratic primary in the previous election, Spitzer made it to the finish line on his second try in 1998 by spending a sizable chunk of his father's real estate fortune--and only then after a six-week, Florida-style recount in which the incumbent cried voter fraud. His political views were several shades to the right of most New York Democrats. And the crony-ridden office he inherited was so inept...
...Salvador’s home run was his first since returning from an ACL tear that sidelined him for a large chunk of the season. But it would not be his last—not by a long shot...
...Scientists are pretty sure that an asteroid or comet ended the 135-million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A huge chunk of space debris slammed into the earth 65 million years ago, blasting a pall of dust into the air. With the sun blocked, temperatures plunged and light-starved plants at the bottom of the food chain died. Bad news for the dinos, good news for the rodent-like beasts that suddenly had breathing room to begin evolving into...