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Keith Shaw gets a demo of the latest DisplayLink advances, which USB-enable high-performance monitors as well as allow netbooks to attach to monitors via USB.

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Interop: Up Close with DisplayLink

Palm readies to launch the Pre, LG Display unveils world’s thinnest LCD TV, Microsoft tells users to abandon Vista testing for Windows 7, Google translates your Gmail, and the Fisker Karma luxury hybrid gets closer to market.

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Week in Review 5/22

The 42 and 47 inch LCD TV panels measure only 5.9 mm thick and use an edge-lit LED backlight.

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LG claims world’s thinnest LCD TV

The long-awaited Karma now has a dealer in Silicon Valley, so Fisker showed off some prototypes on Monday in San Jose.

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Silicon Valley gets luxury hybrid dealer

Microsoft encouraged users to download and try the release candidate of the OS and even went as far as saying that users testing Vista should abandon that effort for the Windows 7 release candidate.

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Microsoft: Try Windows 7, abandon Vista

At Interop Las Vegas, Keith Shaw takes a look at Sprint’s MiFi device, which combines a 3G wireless connection with a Wi-Fi router to let users create a mobile hot spot.

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Closer look at Sprint’s MiFi

Atlantis launches to fix Hubble, the European Commission fines Intel, iRobot ships bots to the battlefield, Kabul gets WiMax, a Thai hospital boosts safety with robots and eye tracking systems go open source.

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Week in Review – 5/15

The European Commission has fined Intel just under 1.1 billion euro, or about 1.4 billion US dollars for violating European antitrust rules.

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Europe fines Intel $1.4B for antitrust violations

Despite a hefty price tag, the hospital views robots as essential in helping reducing human errors.

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Robots improve efficiency at Thai hospital

At the Kondo Battle robots from across Japan came to fight and win bragging rights to top place in each of three classes: exhibition, open and university, and win an entry on to the bigger Robo-One event.

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Robot Fight Club

On Wednesday in New York Amazon unveiled a new version of its Kindle with a bigger screen, something the company hopes will make newspapers and magazine content easier to read.

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Amazon Kindle Goes Large

Human Rights Watch is trying to get funding for a project that would equip the group’s observers with the BUG so they could do things like measure the use of chemicals in global conflicts.

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Can a Bug save the world?

Amazon intros a new Kindle, the Microsoft Imagine Cup declares a US champion, Windows 7 release candidate becomes publicly available, Steve Ballmer gives Stanford students a pep talk, a robot mows the lawn, and a computer snaps together like Legos.

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Week in Review – 5/8

Neal Weinberg gets a special sneak peek inside the Enigma device, which was used by the Allies in World War II to help crack German codes.

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Inside the Enigma: Not a Riddle

A team of students competing in this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup developed a system that blocks cell phone calls and text messages while driving, but one that also gathers information about driving habits like rapid starts stops and turns.

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Imagine Cup: Cell phones record erratic driving