Microsoft makes Yahoo an offer

Posted February 1 2008 11:26 am by zero
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Microsoft announced today that it is offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion cash + stock. This is an incredibly big move and an interesting one because Yahoo essentially replicates a lot of Microsoft's Live platform. It's definitely going to be a change in the search and online advertising ...

More than meets the eye with new magnetic bots

Posted January 29 2008 11:01 pm by kobewan
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As unreal and futuristic as it sounds, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are in the early stages of being able to create a mass of microscopic, reconfigurable electromagnetic robots. If the project succeeds, the team will be able to put together hundreds or thousands of such tiny robots and program ...