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Submission + - AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network

Submitted by AVIDJockey on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @05:22PM

AVIDJockey writes: AOL has done an about-face regarding third-party access to the company's AIM chat network. AOL's recently launched OpenAIM 2.0 provides open, uninhibited access to services like Meebo, or all-in-one IM clients like Pidgin, allowing them to freely and easily use the AIM instant messaging network.

That's quite a change from AOL's previous stance toward such competitors, which seemed to be somewhere between sticking its head in the sand and unleashing a pack of angry lawyers.

Submission + - New robot can sense damage, compensate

Submitted by AVIDJockey on Thursday November 16, 2006 @07:55PM

AVIDJockey writes: Researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., built a four-legged robot that can sense damage to its body and figure out how to adjust and keep going. They report the development in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The article states that the robot can, "generate a conception of itself and then adapt to damage." This reaffirms advice that states that when the robot uprising finally comes, you should always aim your rocket launcher at the head (or brain nexus).

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