The New Zealand Land Cover Database (LCDB) is released. Free, and under a Creative Commons Attribution licence:
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/land/land-cover-dbase/index.html
Canonical is working with Eucalyptus to create Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services; an internal compute cloud distro like EC2:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/07/01/ubuntu_cloud_support/
Firefox 3.5 weighs in at twice the speed of 3.0 and matching the speed of the original, unbloated, Google Chrome browser:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49302846,00.htm
The Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition package is reviewed. By itself. These should bee intersecting:
http://www.gizmag.com/dragon-naturallyspeaking-10-speech-to-text-review/12122/
A US Department of Defense{sic} data glove is released to civilians. The Acceleglove is programmable in Java and costs a mere US$499:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2382
And finally. The Mars rover Spirit takes a tip from Wall-e's ebook and does a spot of star gazing:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2381
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