Cool: That it is small. That Apple’s speech synthesis now does a passable Swedish voice. Not so very: That you, too, can now get the unfettered Stephen Hawking-grade UI experience. That you are now confined to the Apple headphones (there’s a good model… which costs as much as the i...

Ovarian cancer, which is known as the silent killer because it's so hard to detect in early stages, killed 15,000-plus women in the US last year. But now, doctors are a step closer to developing a way to screen for it. [Us News & World Report] Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams, who just got engaged...

Apple introduced the new iPod Shuffle today. It's about half the size of the old Shuffle and it now holds around a thousand songs, instead of the 240 songs of the old, square Shuffle. The controls have been taken off the device and are now on the ear bud cord. And there's a new system to help you or...

Give credit to Jim DeRogatis for being a relentless pain-in-the-ass to Bono in the middle of a glad-handing radio event last night in Chicago. While I imagine Bono would have preferred to discuss whether the new U2 album is just a great 2009 album or the greatest, DeRogatis decided to ask a series o...

Gnomie Luke Scott writes: Hey Chris, I have been planning on getting a Mac Pro for a while, and since my last Mac purchase with the first-gen Intel MacBook, I’ve been keeping an eye on MacRumors’ “when to buy” page and other news to make sure that any future Apple purchases d...

What a cordial little fellow!...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Homeland Security USA . NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, then a new Law and Order: SVU . FOX has a new, two-hour American Idol at 8. There's a new Reaper on The CW at 8. At 9, Sci-Fi has a new E...

There’s a great postmortem of the Metaplace game jam we did a couple of weeks back at WorldIV.com » Surprisingly, Making Games is Hard Work. The jacks game I made I did jacks – I was planning on doing Pente after that. My thoughts on it: Gosh, a lot of people don’t know what jacks...

We’re laying out Metaplace Central again. We have iterated it a lot, as we try out different flows, add new tech that makes it more appealing, and so on. These days, what with the balloons, the board games on the table by the cafe, and the many teleporters to user worlds, layout is growing mor...

Greetings Hey folks, today is it!  We are going to be kicking off our new show in just a few more hours.  We are looking forward to having a very interactive show that has a mixed balance of viewers and active participants.  We are going to leave our show open today for whatever you w...