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I recently came across this presentation by Bart de Waele. I think he has some great tips for aspiring entrepreneurs. Take a look: Posted by email from Alex Kaminski’s posterous

Scientists at Penn State are leaders of a team that is the first to report the genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, according to Webb Miller, professor of biology and of computer science and engineering and one of the project’s two leaders. The scientists sequenced the genome of the woolly mammoth, an extinct species of [...]

So it looks like Google's voice recognition app uses the accelerometer and proximity sensor to detect when the phone is next to your ear and thus when you have started speaking. It then knows that you are done speaking by detecting if its next to your ear again. This is a great feature and I [...]