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...Headroom-ish kind of way, and they simulate emotions based on the emoticons--for example, :-)--that you put in your text. Type in :-X, and Rachel blows a kiss. Type in I-P, and she looks disgusted. The voice reading the e-mail is standard-issue IBM ViaVoice text-to-speech...
...They're always practicing," said Karen Bruderle, a spokesperson for IBM, a sponsor of the contest. "These students are doing problems year round...
...theirs alone. A growing number of corporations, from IBM to your neighborhood Kinko's, are reducing their greenhouse footprints. DuPont is pledging to knock its emissions 65% below 1990 levels by 2010. "There's been a shift in the center of gravity in the U.S. corporate community since Kyoto," says Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Now the view is that climate change is serious and we ought to do something about...
...steel and half the weight, titanium is ideal for tennis rackets and skis. More cost-efficient ways to cut the metal were developed after golfers clamored for titanium clubs in the mid-'90s, and now you can buy titanium binoculars, phones and strollers. The metal encases the new IBM ThinkPad X Series and the Macintosh PowerBook G4, which besides making both look sleek is thought to protect against data loss, since titanium is almost nonmagnetic. Alas, Gehry may have moved on. Asked to build a new branch of the Guggenheim, he warned museum-board members not to "fix" themselves...
...There's talk among the geeks out here about something called CPRM, which is something that IBM is working on. Basically, it's a new kind of hard drive that would block the download of any copyrighted material...