04 December 2002

Speech recognition analysis suggests Bin Laden tape may be fake Guesswork plays a major role in even the most sophisticated analysis of audio recordings, and U.S. intelligence officials at first advised caution despite widespread claims that the tape aired last month was really of bin Laden. That's especially true since the tape in question was recorded over a phone line, which would have dampened the higher and lower frequencies, robbing analysts of important clues. 6:48:50 PM     comments

Real-time bus San Francisco commuter map shows buses It's pretty cool, but we'd rather get a feed into our mobiles of the content on those electronic indicators at some bus stops in London ("next bus at [busstop] in [mins]"). If it was more of a mobility app, its usefulness would be massively higher. Anyone seen something that provides this? If not, anyone want to start a company to do one? ;) [via vt] 5:16:36 PM     comments