ICT in the news - w/c 21st August 2006

Joke generator raises a chuckle

Software that can construct jokes has been created by researchers.

 

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Milton Keynes gets high speed net

Milton Keynes looks set to become the first British town to get a high-speed wireless network based on so-called Wimax technology.

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UK will lead digital TV uptake

Digital TV will be watched in a greater percentage of homes in the UK than any other country by 2010, a report says.

 

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Technology lets ads get personal

In the underground station of the future video rules. Messages will follow you up the escalators on LCD screens, they will even be projected onto the wall as you wait for your train.

 

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Playstation 3 tackles world ills

The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.

 

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Boost to Galileo sat-nav system

The UK government is to invest another £21m in a space mission to build a civil satellite navigation system.

 

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Artificial muscles light up TVs

Arrays of thousands of tiny "super prisms" controlled by robotic muscles could bring real colour to TV screens for the first time, scientists say

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