Intelligent, chatty machines
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Also: Searching passengers' faces for subtle cues to terror. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Meat wagons hitched to wireless bandwagon
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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More people are online and more people are using cutting-edge technologies but the talk around the devices
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After decades of research and development, speech recognition is finally moving toward mainstream use. Advances in statistical modeling, pattern matching algorithms and processing power have
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By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Sep. 20--Imagine a computer understanding everything you say, regardless  of how fast you speak or the words you use.    And while you're talking to that computer, it's also turning your words  immediately into type.
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When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation. Then he imagines what will happen when they all can talk to one another.
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Potential distractions at the computer are ever present and enticing. So research is aiming at ways to keep you focused.
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Two vastly different robots unveiled at DigitalLife offer practicality and Jetsons frivolity for the home.
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Basic cellphones line up for a Simplicity Derby, but are they efficient?
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By Paul Gromosiak  I must admit that I am a bit of a Luddite, but I have accepted my fair share of technology in my daily life. What concerns me is how rapidly technology seems to be taking complete control of our lives. Once our servant, I think it is now our master.
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In the past couple of years, robots have started to move around and work independently. Just don't expect them to look, walk and talk like C3PO in the Star Wars movies -- rolling and beeping like R2D2 is more like it.
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'It looks like you're trying to have a conversation with a computer. Can I help?' In the early 1970s, no science show was complete without predictions of HAL-like intelligent autonomous computers by the turn of the century.â¦
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Predictions from a neural network could make characters' movements less jerky.
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The popular IM consolidation service adds audio and video chat.
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Movable parts in a silicone face enable 'emotional' response to key words.
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.