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but those outposts won't necessarily be in what we know as second life today hey there I'm rich demuro with cnet TV better update your facebook status because you my friend are in the queue let's get you started with a little eye candy the first 3d images of the Sun courtesy of NASA's twin Solar terrestrial relations observatory better known as stereo the two high flying spacecraft orbiting the Sun at a slight offset to make the 3d images the new view helping NASA better understand the physics of our universe for the full effect make your own 3d glasses instructions on nasa's website and what seems like a 90s headline wikipedia now available on drumroll please a cd-rom before you laugh realize that not everyone in the world has access to fat internet connections and powerful desktop computers the CD contains a collection of 2000 english-language wikipedia articles on subjects including geography arts science and history there's even a built-in search engine version point 5 of the disk is available for 14 bucks the announcement comes on the heels of a Pew Internet survey that says thirty-six percent of Americans now consult wikipedia the couch getting a lot of competition these days for that coveted TV watching time there's the ipod the mobile phone the internet and now the gas station pump top TV adding fuel to the fire westinghouse digital announcing big expansion plans for the network of gas station tvs the 19-inch widescreen displays show a five minute mix of news sports entertainment weather and traffic with of course little advertising folded in there are a hundred and seventy thousand gas stations in the US and pump top TV plans to outfit 75,000 of them with their pump top boxes san fran Sacramento San Diego Phoenix and Dallas getting first dibs on the fumes text messaging competitions are all the rage these days LG just crowned their 13-year old texting champ and now a company called nuance is kidding man versus machine it's actually woman vs. machine elytra show is west coast champion runner up in LG's national texting championship will face off against mobile speech recognition technology the competition taking place at conversations Europe in France nuance the company that's convincing us to talk to our computers forever they make the dragon naturally speaking software finally the beta well I know you're familiar with the google versus yahoo search engine war it's just putting it nicely did you know that these two companies have a search to point o war brewing Google and Yahoo with beta search engines yahoo has alpha while google has searched mash their buns f seeds hours don't you get the picture both search engines pull results from various sources alpha lets you customize your ride with open search while search mash has a killer feature you don't have to have your cursor in the box to type in a search I really can't believe nobody else has done this you got to check out that feature it is very cool you can find links to everything I mentioned in the CNN TV blog under the show notes and thanks for helping us climb the top tech podcast charts and iTunes I'm rich demuro with seen a TV in New York City don't say it and tell you so