Ryo here, and if you get the title for today’s Tech Tuesday then you must be a gamer. If not, well I suppose I can toss up some techie jokes a bit later. Moving right along.

Quick read through my news feed shows me one thing so far: Google is really making some headlines. One thing that made headlines with Google is their service Google Voice. For those that have yet to get a chance to try this service (fun to play jokes on friends with), it offers to transcribe your voice mails and keep a copy of them on your Google Voice account and even e-mail you the transcription. You can search through your voice mails just like you can on Gmail, and before Google made a quick update to the service so could anyone else. Google Search was indexing voice mail transcriptions and allowing people to search for them. Bit of a privacy issue even if the transcription service is meant to be used so you can publish your voice mails. Even though I have only received three voice mails, two of which are unexplained to this day, I still wouldn’t want them to be indexed. At all really, but maybe that’s just me being a privacy nut. Ah well, to each their own right?

Now for the other bit of info about Google that has them in headlines. There was a bit of a scare that Google somehow bypassed Twitter’s privacy settings for accounts that don’t publish their tweets to the public timeline. It appeared that Google was indexing private tweets and making them searchable. What is with the scares over Google and possible privacy invasions lately? Rest assured Twitter users, it has been noted that the only tweets that Google indexes are the public ones and the tweets that were once public but now the account has been switched to private. So no worrying about the omnipotent Google peeking over your shoulder while you spill your feelings out one hundred and forty characters out at a time. 😛

Scientists in Italy have made an interesting advancement in prosthetic limbs. They are testing out a new prosthetic hand that is supposedly capable of transmitting sensory information to the users brain thanks to tiny electronic sensors attached to nerve endings. The test patient is a man who lost his hand to a battle against cancer several years back. If this pans out correctly, this will pave the way for prosthetic researchers to explore a new and viable option of helping victims cope with the loss of limbs.

A friend of mine passed along a video of a really old commercial, just wait and you’ll see how old, and it got a decent chuckle out of me so I decided to share it with the rest of you. Windows has been around a long time, and so has Steve Ballmer.

Alright, that’s a wrap for this week. I’m off to a minimum of two days of playing Borderlands (get the joke now don’t you?) once I pick my copy up from my local Game Stop. I’ll be back next week, unless Borderlands ends up rivaling WoW and Everquest as a life eater that is.