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it's Thursday March 15 2012 I'm Richard carrion Cena calm and it's time to get loaded Google is revamping its search function to stay competitive according to The Wall Street Journal the new google search will apparently dish out information that's more relevant to how we think for example Google is working on improving semantic search it means searches we better match with entities like people places and things so when you search for Lake Tahoe you won't just get the website for Lake Tahoe but also get facts about the lake like location altitude average temperature and salt content there's no specific timeline yet though for the launch microsoft is working on a new way to blend physical and virtual worlds with something called the Bema Tron microsoft research teams combined a projector with a Kinect sensor and it beams the image of a toy car into a room the sensor can quickly detect 3d objects in a room like walls or even someone's foot and that toy car image reacts to real things it can't drive through a wall but it could say drive over your shoe researchers posted a video showing the Bema Tron car navigating a room bumping into obstacles and reacting to real world ramps aside from games researchers are thinking this technology can be used to project pop-up alerts and notifications about objects in our view attention cable cutters amazon added three thousand titles from the discovery networks to its prime instant video library that brings the total number of videos available to prime subscribers to 17,000 Cake Boss Mythbusters and shark week or just a few of the titles being added new titles give Amazon a boost to compete against Netflix and if you didn't already know amazon prime customers pay seventy nine dollars a year to access the video streaming library and receive free two-day shipping on orders from amazon nasa has released a new atlas of more than 560 million stars and galaxies many never seen before collected by the wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission or called wise for short the snapshots from wise have been combined into an atlas of more than 18,000 images covering the sky why his observations have led to the discovery of wide dwarf stars which are so faint cool and temperature they don't shine in visible light all your questions about the Federal Reserve can now be answered in 140 characters or less the Federal Reserve is now on Twitter the board launched its official Twitter account to share news and announcements and it will tweet out information like the Federal Reserve's weekly balance sheet and even share answers to frequently asked questions those are your headlines for today I'm Richard Carey prasina calm and you just been loaded