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| Voice chat coming to Facebook |
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Look out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications. |
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| Researcher converts his life into 'e-memory' |
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For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers -- where he knows it will be safe. He records everything; throws away nothing. Soon, all people will have digital transcripts of their lives, he says. CNN talks with Bell about his "lifelogging" efforts and his new book, "Total Recall." |
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| Is this high-tech bridge the safest in America? |
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Just about everyone who worked to build the new Interstate Highway 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, knew that their project would never be "just a bridge." It would never occupy the same category as thousands of other concrete and steel behemoths that millions of American drivers thoughtlessly cross every day. |
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| Phone calling coming to Twitter |
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Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service. A new third-party offering from Jajah goes into beta and will allow Twitter users to initiate a two-way voice chat with other users. |
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| Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools |
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Search-engine results, long dominated by stacks of blue hyperlinks, are getting more eye-catching. Bing's new "visual search" function lets users troll through image catalogues, while Google is testing a "Fast Flip" application that lets users 'flip" through digital pages of newspapers and magazines. |
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| Band's parody helps keep Auto-Tune alive |
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CNN talks with Andrew Gregory, of the sibling group behind the 'Auto-Tune the News' online video series. This has been the summer of Auto-Tune, with musicians, comedians and iPhone users taking advantage of the pitch-altering software that makes voices sound robotic. |
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