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Dexter The Space Robot Now Assembled

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Dexter the robot that will work on the space station has now been assembled. Dexter is ready to do manual labor on the space station.

The robot, which is properly called the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, will in future do much of the external work on the space station.

Dextre will now undergo a series of tests and trials before it is asked to do major tasks.

Ultimately, it will be commanded to install and remove small payloads such as electronics boxes, computers and batteries

The fourth test happens this Thursday.

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Mario Kart With Wii Wheel Release Date

The release date for Mario Kart With Wheel for Wii is coming quickly. This great new game, complete with a wheel to keep you on the road will be hitting retail outlets on April 27, 2008.

Play a whole new way with the Wii Wheel! The Wii Wheel transforms the Wii Remote into a steering wheel that feels natural in anyone’s hands, while the Wii Remote and Nunchuk offer a classic control style for the Mario Kart veteran. In either configuration, you can perform dramatic speed-boosting tricks like jumps, flips, and wheelies and with the shake of a Wii Remote.

If you want to be first on the block to own a copy of Mario Kart with Wheel, be sure to place your Preorder now!
The game (and wheel) retail for around $50.00.

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Super Smash Brothers Brawl For WII Sells Like Hotcakes

It was recently announced that Super Smash Brothers Brawl for Wii has broken a sales record at Nintendo. The game was released on March 9, 2008 and sold almost 900,000 copies that day. To date, sales exceed 1.4 million copies.

It is the third installment of the Super Smash Bros. series and features dozens of classic Nintendo characters like Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog. It’s for 1-4 players and rated “T”.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is now available and retails for around $50.00.

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Google Says Company Can Avoid Economic Downturn

Executives at Google seem to think the company is immune to an economic slowdown. Eric Schmidt said during a press conference that Google is uniquely positioned to avoid the troubles plaguing many other firms.

“It’s too early to say if there’s (already) been any specific impact but if there were I don’t think it would be much,” Schmidt said.

“We believe that if there were (a U.S. recession), we’ll be well positioned. We’re not particularly dependent on any particular one market. There’s not a lot of advertising for any one market over another,” he said.

“There tends to be a flight in a global slowdown to higher quality advertising and higher quality advertising is determined by what sells,” he said.

The question is: will those companies continue to buy ads from Google?

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Nintendo Hints At “Big Game”

Nintendo has put out a lot of big titles in 2008. Now there’s a hint they may be planning on releasing another “big game” before year end.

“There’s going to be a big game for the holiday that gamers will want,” Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime told GameTrailers. “The gamers are going to be excited, and the expanded audience is going to be excited.

Whatever it is, gamers are probably expecting to have their socks knocked off.

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Robert Soloway Faces 26 Years For Spamming

Robert Soloway was a heavy duty email spammer and now he faces up to 26 years in prison for his efforts. It’s tough to feel sorry for the guy, who once bragged: “I’ve been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars and have had my business running for over 10 years without ever paying a dime, regardless to the outcome of any lawsuits.”.

Sentencing is June 20th.

Soloway has already pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and tax evasion.

My Inbox laughs ruefully.

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Samsung L74W

The Samsung L74W digital camera is unique in a very special way. The Samsung L74W is a touch-screen digital camera, which might take some getting used to, if you haven’t had the opportunity to use one before.

The touch-screen interface, in fact, will probably be a deal breaker for many people who experiment with this camera. Many users have reported the interface to be a bit of a “pain”.

Phone Features:

7.2 Mega Pixels, 3.6X Optical Zoom
Wider perspective through a 28mm wide-angle lens
3″ Touch Screen LCD (230K) (Physical User Interface)
ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction), ISO 1600 and Red-eye Fix Function
3.0x Optical Zoom with Sound for Perfect Video Shooting, Built-in Movie Editing Function
Face Recognition AF & AE
14 preset scene modes and Wise Shot
Provision of a 450MB internal memory for World Tour Guide function
Voice Recording (depends on capacity)
Special Photo Edit / Effect function
About 450MB Built-in Memory, SD/SDHC/MMC Plus Memory Card
Dimension: 104.5 X 61.8 X 21.8 (W x H x D, mm) / Weight: 174g

The Samsung L74W retails for around 189.99.

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Catching Google Is Microsoft’s Goal

According to Steve Ballmer, catching up with Google is the main goal of Microsoft.

At the MIX08 conference, Steve Ballmer said that Google is the obvious reason MSFT made an unsolicited $42 billion offer for Yahoo.

“In online, yeah, it’s Google, Google, Google, and we’re in the game. We’re just the little engine that could,” said Ballmer.

So far the offer to Yahoo has elicited little enthusiasm from Yahoo, who would prefer to continue on as an independent company.

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Website Unblockers

Website unblockers are extremely useful when you find that a website you used to be able to access can no longer be reached from your network. Sometimes gung-ho sysadmins tend to turn off access to any websites they deem unfit. Sure, this is a form of censorship, but if they feel it’s the best thing for their network, they’ll do it with no qualms.

The way around these blocks is by using proxy servers. Proxy servers are the oldest form of websites unblockers around. A proxy allows you to regain lost access to your favorite sites.

Here are a lits of several good website unblockers:

• Free proxy unblock
• Yahoo unblock
• Proxy bypass

All of these were in working order last time I checked.

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Samsung Spinpoint M6 500 GB

Samsung has announced the imminent release of the Spinpoint M6 500 GB, which has the distinction of being the world’s firstr 500Gb hard drive that has been offered for mass distribution.

The Spinpoint M6 500 GB is a 5400 RPM drive.

Impressively, the nearly half terabyte drive still comes in a standard 9.5mm height format.

The unit is supposed to sell for around $299 and should be available in May of 2008.

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