Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC team up to start making chips used in flat screen TVs. This is pretty neat, a device that tells you that your plant is thisty. US senators back off getting rid of voting machines without a paper trail.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ so-called voter-verified paper records in their systems, with some primaries only six months away, "could be an invitation to chaos." Earlier this year, she called for enacting such changes by 2008.