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Gizmo

17 May 2006

China’s biggest search engine, Baidu, has launched an online encyclopedia based on Wikipedia, which will rely on voluntary contributions for its entries. But Baidupedia will heavily censor its entries. Banned entries include Falun Gong and Dalai Lama. A Chinese-language version of Wikipedia was blocked by the government last year.

A car that can anticipate a side-on impact and subtly alter its body shape to absorb the force of the crash is on its way. The car, being developed by an EU-funded German consortium will use hood-mounted cameras and radar to anticipate a collision. Once it determines an impact is imminent…

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