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...those, and you feed it five more, you might gain five, but lose three," says Vincent Hubert, a software engineer at Montreal-based Simbioz, a tech company that is developing futuristic hand-gesture technology like the kind seen in Minority Report. It's the same kind of problem speech-recognition software faces in handling unusual accents. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
...cameras hit Best Buy is not something that HP, Nikon or Sony, when contacted by TIME, were willing to answer. Perhaps in this market of rapidly developing technologies, consumers who fork over a few hundred dollars for the latest gadget are the test market. A few years ago, speech-recognition software was teeth-gnashingly unreliable. Today, it's up to 99% accurate. With the flurry of consumer complaints out there, most of the companies seem to be responding. HP has offered instructions on how to adjust its webcam's sensitivity to backlighting. Nikon says it's working to improve...
With respect to financial reform: This was always one of our top agendas. I started talking about this during the campaign, and I made a major speech about how we're going to move forward [last] March. My hope had been that health care wouldn't take this long. And that we would've teed up both energy and financial reform before the end of the first year. If there's one thing I have learned - you asked earlier about something I've learned about this process - it always takes longer than you think...
...This shouldn't come as a surprise in Germany, where Obama has been immensely popular since he announced his candidacy. In July 2008, just after Obama locked up the Democratic nomination, he gave a speech in Berlin that drew 200,000 cheering supporters - an event that was later mocked by the McCain campaign, which called him the "biggest celebrity in the world" in a TV ad. And because Obama's first-year problems have been largely domestic - such as the drawn-out fight with conservatives over health care reform - his reputation hasn't been tarnished much abroad since that defining...
...President Cristina Fernandez is known for speaking her mind. Last week the controversial leader accused her own Vice President Julio Cobos of plotting to destabilize Argentina and cause the fall of the government to further his own ambition. "Cobos wants to become President before 2011," Fernandez said in a speech Jan. 12. The President said her deputy, whom polls have as a front runner in next year's presidential race, is part of a dark "conspiracy" plotting to overthrow the government and that he has become the "de facto leader of the opposition...