“A new generation of road camera which can deduce how many people are in a car is to be tested for the first time.” “The new camera developed at Loughborough University can see how many people are in a car by detecting water and blood content.” BBC NEWS | UK | Car-sharing cameras to be …
This story about a headset that will allow you to control computer games is fairly interesting, but I do hope that whoever’s writing the games has a better imagination than the spokesperson for the company: “If you laughed or felt happy after killing a character in a game then your virtual buddy could admonish you …
I should have noticed it before:
“one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion” Sleeveface
I’m sure it’s “revolutionary” (or not, because otherwise they wouldn’t have had to fly past it…) that we now know what the back side of Mercury looks like, but it doesn’t seem to be too attractive or different from any other photo of a grayscale pancake that I’ve seen. I am, however, impressed by the …
I’ve no idea what this is going to mean for the future of MySQL. Sun to buy MySQL
Bebo today opened their platform to the general development community. It’s based on Facebook’s own FBML and API documentation which is supposed to make porting apps very easy… I’m expecting a land grab of app clones over the next few days, but it’s fun times at least! I think it’s time to hang around on …
A greedy dog was entered in an eating championship despite nearly ruining the contest by wolfing down 20 competition pies in one sitting. Charlie, a bichon frise, raided the fridge of 1995 champion Dave Williams while his owner was distracted by a pigeon flying up his chimney. BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Dog …
The Facebook API may be great in many ways, but for stability there’s still a lot to be desired. There seems to be a slightly “gung ho” attitude to code deployment at Facebook which, although I feel some empathy with, isn’t particularly suited to a site with 50 million users. Take this recent developer update …
It looks like LinkedIn has been looking at which Facebook features it can steal. LinkedIn’s newsfeed does appear to actually be news rather than friend activities, however, and tries to work out what the user might be interested in. It’s only in beta at the moment but it’ll be interesting to see if it does …