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I have to admit, I wasn’t convinced. The Echo’s announcement gave me more of a “what the heck” face than one of excitement. To me, already not a fan of touchscreen keyboards, having dual touch screens just seemed like a grave oversight. Then I played with the Echo. Kyocerahas actually put a lot of thought into this phone. While it’s runningAndroid 2.2, a few of the apps (most notably, the Gallery) have been tweaked to take advantage of what the Echo can do....

Texas voters green light $7.1B plan to overhaul Austin’s public transport Portland rejects transport plan Elsewhere in the US, Portland votersrejected a US$4 billion transport planwhich would have seen an expansion of the MAX light rail train system in the metropolitan area, and an additional US$1 billion towards regional programs including the creation of safer routes to schools, free youth transit passes and replacing diesel buses with low-carbon or electric ones....

Most of us benefit every day from the fact computers can now “understand” us when we speak or write. Yet few of us have paused to consider the potentially damaging ways this same technology may be shaping our culture. Human language is full of ambiguity and double meanings. For instance, consider the potential meaning of this phrase: “I went to project class”. Without context, it’s an ambiguous statement. Computer scientists and linguists have spent decades trying to program computers to understand the nuances of human language....

Have you ever been sitting around and just wanting to have some conversation? None of your friends are around, you’re tired of reading curated social and news sites andQuorajust isn’t fitting the bill because you want discussion, not answers. Mark Biegel had this problem too. In answer to the problem, he decided to build what he wanted. The end result isTeztify. It is, as best as Biegel can describe it, “a social opinion and discussion website”....

A Twitter hacker caused chaos in Thailand after gaining access to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s account. The account was compromised for around twenty minutes on Sunday, during which eight tweets critical of the government and its policies, including the below –translated by Asian Correspondent– were sent. Is it time already that our country changes for the better, not just for looking good for the pictures in order to capitalize for their own corporations, relatives and the others who benefit....