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December 04, 2014

Hawking's speech software goes open source for disabled
London (AFP) Dec 02, 2014
The system that helps Stephen Hawking communicate with the outside world will be made available online from January in a move that could help millions of motor neurone disease sufferers, scientists said Tuesday. The wheelchair-bound theoretical physicist, who shot to international fame in the 1980s with his book "A Brief History of Time", hailed the decision by US tech giant Intel at a press conference in London. "By making this technology freely available, it has the potential to greatly improv ... read more

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