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Linux visionary Hans Reiser has been convicted of first-degree murder for killing his estranged wife in 2006 and faces life imprisonment.

In this week's show: Vietnam launches a telecom satellite, Samsung introduces the Soul, the European Commission asks for video game ratings, Honda's Asimo robot has a new job, technology runs the Boston Marathon, disgruntled eBay users plan a boycott and Sony shows off a razor thin OLED display.

Not over here, at least. Our overseas correspondents report on the latest technology from Japan.

Environmentalists have been urging consumers for decades to wake up to impending disaster and change their buying, driving and living habits to reduce pollution, cut energy consumption and help reverse global warming.

When it comes to cell phones, I'm a trailing-edge guy. Fancy, new smartphones are appealing, but my town lacks the network to support them. So when I dunked my phone into a pond recently while reporting a loon sighting from my canoe, my replacement options were limited.

Looking to boost the reliability and availability of its open-source database, MySQL this week is unveiling clustering capabilities.

It's Robodex time in Japan again and that means a gamut of new robots including both improved and upgraded models and brand new machines, many from companies presenting their first work in the fast-growing field of robotics.

The faces of kids and adults light up the first time they see Sony Corp.'s Aibo or Honda Motor Co. Ltd.'s Asimo robots as the robots' demeanor and life-like movements bring a smile to almost every face. But wait a second. Cute as they are, whatever happened to The Jetson's ideal of an army of robots to do our cleaning, water our plants and wash our car?

Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (NMESI), which was opened in July last year in Tokyo, has a new employee -- a humanoid robot developed by Honda Motor Co. Ltd.'s named Asimo, which will earn a ¥20 million [m] (US$151,412) annual salary. The director of the museum issued an official announcement of orders to Asimo -- at the entrance ceremony on Sunday

What's being billed as the world's first exposition of human partner robots opened Friday in Yokohama, just outside of Tokyo.