Google working on language translating phone

Chris    General    

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Awesome! Traveling through non-English speaking countries is about to get a lot easier thanks to Google!

BARCELONA, Spain ? Stumped by foreign languages when you’re travelling? Google is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera.At a demonstration during the Mobile World Congress, a cell phone trade show…

Learn to fail fast to succeed sooner

Chris    Self help    

It’s often said that the faster you can learn to fail at something, the faster you can then succeed at what it is you want.

Seems like a bunch of motivational fluff right?

Often we don’t see or too easily forget that the people who have flown to great heights had to deal with tremendous adversity beforehand. If you read any biographies, this element is always present.

Your thoughts may change after you view the videos in Famous Failures – Michael Jordan, Abraham Lincoln and J.K. Rowling.

Shiny gadget, shady name – iPad jokes fly on the web

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SAN JOSE – You have to wonder whether there were any women in the room when the marketing geniuses at Apple decided to call the company's new gadget the "iPad." Because the jokes about feminine hygiene products are flying."Will…

Mind-blowingly expensive earphones announced

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Logitec has blown the in-ear headphone market to bits with a new ultra-pro product with a price tag that will have trembling bank managers heading for the hills.Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Custom Monitors are primarily designed for flashy…

Vulnerable Facebook users offered ‘free’ security software

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Every one of Facebook’s 350 million users is to be offered free virus protection for six months, after the social networking website signed an unprecedented global deal with the computer security firm McAfee.The offer, in which…