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A video posted on YouTube shows HP's facial recognition software tracking the movements of a white face, but not a black one, something the video's maker calls "racist," but the computer giant says is definitely not.

“Everything we do is focused on ensuring that we provide a high-quality experience for all our customers who are ethnically diverse and live and work around the world," an HP blog. "That’s why when issues surface, we take them seriously and work hard to understand the root causes."

PS3 users are ready for 3D TV and will just need to add a 3D compatible telly to complete the, er, picture. We know many of you have bitten your nails down to the quick and lost countless nights’ sleep fretting about whether or not your PS3 will support the just-ratified 3D Blu-ray standard.

Airport security is a huge objective in the United States these days. Airports in America and around the world are beefing up security and researchers scattered around the globe are working hard at developing scanners and detectors that are better at finding potential weapons and explosives that people may try to get onboard aircraft.

Networking giant Cisco is pushing the potential of smart grids to help improve the societal and economic problems facing country's around the world, despite concerns around how the networks will be funded and security issues highlighted by researches.

Google's first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone.

On Monday, Google announced the ability to perform an Internet search by submitting a photograph. The experimental search-by-sight feature, called Google Goggles, has a database of billions of images that informs its analysis of what's been uploaded, said Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering. It can recognize books, album covers, artwork, landmarks, places, logos, and more.

A year ago, I wrote a similar Blu-ray blog with a nearly identical title--simply swap out "2009" for "2010." At the time, sales of Blu-ray players had been disappointing, although falling hardware and disc prices were inspiring some analysts to predict a brighter '09 for the high-def movie format.

SKY TELEVISION will blast 3D football into your living room by 2010, according to reports.

Yes, if the thought of having Wayne Rooney and gang looming out at you in full 3D doesn't fill you with dread, you should start preparing to watch them in all their, almost like the real thing, glory. And by preparing we mean going out and getting yourself a 3D television.

Intel released Moblin 2.1 earlier this month, Canonical released Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 late last month, and various other vendors have offered up their fall distribution refreshes too. Oh yeah, and Google just released the Chromium OS source code a few days ago! With all of the netbook-focused distribution updates, we found it time to run an onslaught of new benchmarks, comparing some of the leaders in this field along with running a couple full-blown desktop distributions for this round of Linux netbook benchmarking.

If you are under the impression that you know all about the Nokia N900 smartphone, you may be wrong, as according to an article over on fonehome there are several handy titbits which they have come across while handling the Nokia N900.

So here they are…apparently the Nokia N900 can make free calls via Skype on the Nokia N900 naturally and as long as the other person is also using Skype. The they found that the Maemo 5 operating system updates come via OTA so cuts out the necessity of cables.

Moore’s Law states that approximately every two years, the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles. This has held true for the last 50 years. But there will come a point one day when physics puts a stop to that. Eventually the boundaries of atomic scale will limit transistor density. However, a new breakthrough in the field of quantum computing may provide hope for future advances. Until now, a quantum computing device had to be designed for one, and only one, operation.