What if your laptop knew how you felt?

Faces reveal emotions, and researchers in fields as disparate as psychology, computer science, and engineering are joining forces under the umbrella of "affective computing" to teach machines to read expressions. If they succeed, your computer may one day "read" your mood and play along.

Euthanasia advocate and patient seeks to die in Italy
A patient whose wish to be sedated and removed from his respirator was denied by a court is now deciding whether to appeal the ruling or to perform an act of civil disobedience that will kill him.

Column: DVDs rule, resolutions, bad PR
TECH LIFESTYLE: DVD killed the video star.

Opera Running on the OLPC
An anonymous reader writes "The Opera developers have ported their browser to the $100 laptop. H kon Wium Lie writes: 'Seeing Opera run on the OLPC for first time was a revelation no browser has ever been more beautiful. The resolution of the screen is stunning (200dpi) and Opera makes the most of the embedded DejaVu fonts.' Claudio Santambrogio writes: 'Opera runs beautifully on it. The ...

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