The world's first walking humanoid robot is set to make its office debut in 2006 as a receptionist, Honda announced on Tuesday. The latest version of Honda's Asimo robot will be starting its new job in April at a Honda office in Wako in Saitama prefecture north of Tokyo. Read more...
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Toni Becker, wife of semo.net's founding-owner Brian Becker, has released a song from her upcoming CD, Storybook. The song, Duty Calls, is a tribute to the men and women of our military who have done so much to protect our country over the years and specifically since 9/11. Since posting the song on MySpace.com last week, she has been receiving emails and bulletins from soldiers all over the world thanking her for the message in the song. If you know of someone in the military, consider sending them an email with the following link: http://myspace.com/ToniBecker to encourage them that you support their committment. By permission from Toni Becker, the song's lyrics are posted below and you are welcome to forward
Friday may be D-day, as in "destruction day," for millions of Windows computer users. That's the day a notably pesky e-mail worm, variously called "Nyxem.E," "CME-24," "BlackWorm," "Mywife.E," "KamaSutra" and "VB.bi," among other names, is set to detonate its deadly payload. Once activated, the worm will corrupt all documents on a infected machine with the following file extensions: .dmp, .doc, .mdb, .mde, .pdf, .psd, .ppt, .pps, .rar, .xls and .zip. That means almost all files created using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint could be lost forever, as well as "raw" Adobe Photoshop files, PDF files used by Adobe Acrobat and competing PDF readers, and several kinds of database and compression files. Read More
Worldwide sales of music over the internet and on mobile phones hit $1.1 billion last year, triple 2004 sales and accounting for 6 percent of global record company revenues, the industry said. Read more...
