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Got a hankering for Pine Trail? We attest to a certain weakness ourselves, and now MSI’s Wind U160 netbook is on sale for $380 to fulfill your Atom N450 snacking needs. We were intrigued by the little laptop when we played with it back at CES, particularly if its standard 6-cell battery hump can really produce the quoted 14 hours of life. For whatever reason Newegg and Buy.com are showing now-shipping right now, while Amazon’s lagging with pre-orders only at this point, but we’re sure you’ll make the right retail choice, whatever happens.

MSI’s Wind U160 netbook up for grabs in the US originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We just found a new friend. Kojiro, a humanoid being built by the University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory, has a detailed musculoskeletal system built to mimic the human body. It works on a system of artificial bones, muscles and tendons to create a robot that is theoretically more light and agile than your regular bot, and which moves in a more organic fashion to our untrained eyes. The bot has motors which pull cables that simulate the method which muscles and tendons interact, and has about 100 tendon-muscle structures, giving it 60 degrees of freedom — more than an average rotary joint bot like Asimo (34 degrees, last time we checked). The robot shaves weight with its lighter, plastic materials and small brushless motors. The idea is to make a robot that’s more people friendly by not being substantially heavier or more rigid than a human it might come into contact with. Of course, that’s not the only perk of a bot built like this: the human-style flexible and twistable spine gives Kojiro all sorts of abilities that your regular bot is just too straight-spined for. Like the limbo, for instance. The big difficulty here is that all the motion and flexibility means Kojiro is a big chore to program, and there’s an army of gyros, accelerometers and force sensors embedded throughout the bot to help it learn its balance. Currently they’re working with an iterative learning process to get small motions down until Kojiro can eventually manage more complex motions like sitting motionless at a desk for nine hours on a Saturday, tending to FarmVille. Check out a video of Kojiro in limited action after the break.

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Kojiro humanoid goes musculoskeletal in a big way originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are already plenty of fish in the sea when it comes to VoIP picture-frame phones, and only a few have succeeded in arousing us, but this well-guarded fella here at MSI‘s CeBIT booth seems to have some potential with its unusually large touchscreen. According to the label, the MS-9A31 landline-VoIP hybrid phone will support DECT, video conference call and instant messaging, all courtesy of Android. A quick glance around the phone also reveals two LAN ports, a USB port and a card reader — the latter two presumably for stuffing multimedia files. No word on price or availability, but if MSI’s prominence can win over Skype‘s heart then we might have a winner here (and ASUS better watch out). We gathered some shots, but there’s also a video walkthrough after the break.

[Thanks, Andy]

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MSI caught showing off VoIP video conferencing phone running Android originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft shows a game that’s playable on Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360, and Windows 7, and the gaming session is maintained as you move from one device to another.

This article was written on October 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the reasons I absolutely love Gmail is because of their spam protection. Out of every mail service I’ve tried, theirs without question, is the best. Sorting through spam mail is about as fun as being caught in the middle of bull running wearing red. Email services know this which is why they spend money and take the time to develop and implement technology to keep spam where it should be – in the spam folder! Yesterday on the official Google Blog, a member of the Software Engineer team at Google who focuses on spam gave a report on how they are doing in the spam department with Gmail. The graph below explains it all:

The red line shows all of the incoming messages that are spam, before filtering. Notice the general upward trend? Clearly more spam email is being sent out today than what was being sent out back in 2004.  The important line to look at though is the blue line.  This shows the number of messages that were reported as spam by Gmail users– meaning it made it to their inbox. That number has gone down significantly! This tells us that while spammers are working harder than ever, so is the technology that Google has in place because what they’re doing is working.

According to a video that the spam team at Google put together (below), the average person takes 5 seconds to identify and delete a spam message. While it doesn’t sound like much, all of those seconds can really add up which is why they work hard to fight spam.  They also point out how image spam can be difficult to catch. Thanks to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that Gmail uses from Google Book Search, they’re able to identify those tricky image spam and place it in your spam folder. To sum things up, Gmail is hitting spammers where it hurts. Hallelujah!

Source: Mashable

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