The Round-up: Half-life 3, exploding iPhone 4 and condoms
So this week's been pretty mighty in terms of the sheer amount of news we've had to write about, so allow us to condense it all into a handy set of links which will help navigate around the week's digest. There was McGruff the Crime Dog, Carrier IQ (mobile phone tracking), a little printer, an iPhone 4 mysteriously blowing up, Facebook receiving all kinds of privacy-related hell, and a urinal gaming system...honestly. Let's begin.
Monday
Facedrink gives you 'social energy'
The Computer System that recognises human emotion via your voice
Facebook likely to receive privacy sanctions from EU over targeted advertising
Tuesday
Rumour: Kinect 2 can lip-read and interpret facial emotions
Facebook privacy concerns voiced by FTC. Mark Zuckerberg responds
HP LaserJet Printers suffer from huge security flaw
Introducing: The world's first networked urinal gaming system
iPhone 4 spontaneously combusts
Wednesday
So why did that iPhone 4 combust? Can it happen to you? (carrying on from the story the day before)
Resident Evil 6 crops up on actor's CV
Little Printer makes print media awesome
Editorial: Spotify, not everything needs an app platform (our thoughts on Spotify's announcement from New York)
Thursday
Google shows us the evolution of search
Intel Agency GCHQ says crack the code, become a spy
UK mobile networks insist they don't use Carrier IQ
Move over Onlive & Gaikai. A new cloud-based gaming provider emerges.
IP Crimes = Child Labour and murder. McGruff the Crime Dog said so
Friday
Playstation movie store viral ads take us into virtual reality
Facebook status character limit increases to over 60,000
Facebook introduces sentiment analysis for testing
A Valve employee wearing a Half-Life 3 T-shirt?
Condom ad disguised as Facebook friend request from your future child
Saturday
The Supaboy. Handheld Super NES goes on sale
Samsung brings back the Android flip phone with dual core and dual SIM
Sunday
Samsung releases concept video for flexible AMOLED 'mobile display'
Senseye: smartphone control with your eyes. Launches next year
