OnStar Adds Voice Web Aid for Safe Highway Use
OnStar unveils Personal Calling and Virtual Advisor with voice activation to read emails and provide weather stock quotes and driving info. Rollout starts in the Northeast this week, nationwide by March, with 20 stored numbers for voice dialing and a prepaid minute model.
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Ig Nobel Prize Awarded For PawSense Cat Detector
Boston AP reports Arizona's Chris Niswander won an Ig Nobel for PawSense, a program that detects cats on keyboards and emits a sound to drive them away. The spoof honors quirky science, with recipients from levitating a frog to studies on love and toilets.
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IG Nobel category winners summarize quirky science list
IG Nobel Prize winners by category include Psychology David Dunning and Justin Kruger for unskilled self assessment theory. Literature Jasmaheen for Living on Light advocating breath and sun. Biology Richard Wassersag for tadpole palatability in Costa Rica. Physics Andre Geim and Michael Berry for levitating a frog with magnets. Chemistry Donatella Marazziti Alessandra Rossi Giovanni Cassano Hagop Akiskal for romance as obsessive biochemistry. Economics Moon for mass marriage efficiency. Medicine team for MRI of genitals during coitus. Computer Science Chris Niswander for PawSense. Peace Royal Navy for replacing live shells with shout Benat. Public Health Wyatt McNaughton Tullet for Glasgow toilet collapse report.
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Cable news networks cover Yugoslav unrest from Belgrade chaos
Reports from Belgrade show crowds clashing with police as Parliament burns. Alessio Vinci of CNN and others describe limited police intervention, with networks relying on Reuters AP footage and Serbian TV. Vinci notes Milosevic’s uncertain stance as demonstrations surge.
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