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Aug 22 2008 5:43pm EDT

Last Bytes: Intel, Verizon, Olympics, Google

- Rise of the machines. Intel's CTO says his company is working on closing the gap between humans and robots. Can't wait! [Intel]

- Oops. Verizon has to go back and check each and every one of its FiOS broadband installations after regulators found they could pose a risk to public safety. [Albany Times Union, via SAI]

- Video ad spending on NBCOlympics.com will only total $5.75 million, according to eMarketer. [Wired.com]

- Why has Lively, Google's virtual world, been such a flop? [Economist]

-Sam Gustin. □


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
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