The Crime-Predicting Software Effective In Reducing LA Crime
Though it’s not yet quite up to snuff in predicting how actual crimes will take place and who will commit said act à la Minority Report (there’s that reference again), the Los Angeles Police Department has announced its high-tech algorithms used to predict and prevent future crimes has already had a significant impact in reducing certain criminal activity in areas covered by the prophetic computer system.
HMV Promotes Non-Existent Nintendo 3DS XL With Two Analog Sticks
So the Nintendo 3DS XL has been gathering promotional momentum in the portable gaming market. But it seems the excitement has got to HMV, as they have put up ads in their stores promoting a version of the console which doesn't actually exist.
DARPA Fights Fire With Electricity And A Wall Of Sound
Throwing any conventional method of fire extinguishing out of the window, DARPA has been exploring the use of electricity and sound to put out the flames.
From The Guys Who Brought You 'Date A Gamer' Comes Shag A Gamer.com!
From everyone's favourite gamer dating site (not entirely verifiable) Date A Gamer comes a new match-up website dedicated to just one thing: bringing together geek gamer boys and girls for, in their own words, a “quick shag”. Chivalry really might be dead...
Might The Days Of Facebook Stalking Be Numbered?
Having already introduced changes to Facebook Chat that sees users informed when a message has been seen by a recipient – to the chagrin of avoidant types – now Facebook has announced an overhaul to Groups which allows users to identify exactly who and who has not seen certain posts. Were the company to roll out the feature to the rest of the site, could Facebook ‘stalking’ soon be a thing of the past?
The 'Swiss Army Knife' Of Studio Apartments Transforms Before Your Eyes
For most, purchasing a 420 square foot studio apartment would lead to cutting back on a few mod-cons of your typical, larger property. But for founder of the eco-blog and vlog TreeHugger.com Graham Hill, its proportions were just big enough a blank canvas to dream big. Transfixed on the idea to incorporate everything you'd expect from modern day living, Hill went about launching a project to design and build an apartment capable of 'transforming' into various different living spaces.
Self-Confessed Science Geek Builds Hand-Crafted Particle Accelerator
July 3rd 2012 will go down in scientific history for the day in which scientists from CERN confirmed they had evidence of the elusive ‘God particle’, or Higgs Boson. But for designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating, it brought a new-found relevancy to his very own, working model of a particle accelerator made entirely out of common household objects. Namely, glass bulbs, a pump, magnets and some 45,000 volts.
Rolls Royce Recreate Boeing Engine Out Of 152,455 Lego Bricks
There’s very little that surprises us these days about Lego, such is the extraordinary amount of quite-breathtaking builds we’ve witnessed through the years. But even so, this effort by Rolls Royce to reproduce the Trent-1000 engine is staggering, showing off in glorious detail the inner-workings of the engine and the immense feat in engineering it requires to build such a piece of machinery.
Goal-Line Technology Given The Go Ahead, Several Years Too Late
Having been rigidly opposed to the idea of utilising goal-line technology in football, FIFA president Sepp Blatter now openly admits the technology is vital for the beautiful game to move forward (better late than never, Sepp). Now, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) has approved goal-line systems that determine to put an end to the 'was it/wasn't it' furore greeting each close call, let alone the 'What if?' scenario that tends to arise immediately after.
Gameplay Video Of Cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 Leaked
A beta build of Free Radical's Star Wars: Battlefront 3, cancelled during development due to concerns around budget, has been shown via a video captured and shared by Past to Present Online.
Wikileaks Releases Two Million Emails On Syria
Wikileaks is back with 2 million new emails, coming from various prominent public and private sector Syrian figures dating back over the last six years.
Here's What Jupiter Would Look Like If It Was The Same Distance From Us As Our Moon
Space is massive, we get it. In fact, to us as humans, trying to get even the faintest inclination of the scope and size of our own solar system, let alone the universe or the milky way, is a task inconceivably difficult. To make sense of it all, there's a treasure trove of information, diagrams and visualisations out there that give us a remote idea of how enormous space and its respective planets truly are. But even so, few can match this picturesque effort by Redditor jb2386.
EyePhone: Apple Is Latest To File 'Wearable Computer' Patent
The filing of a patent is far from a sure-fire marker to signal what it is a company is developing behind closed doors. Literally, hundreds of thousands of patents are filed every single year, and the very largest technology companies are responsible for a good grand of them just by themselves. Still, some patents just simply can not be ignored, such is the one granted to Apple Inc. today, entitled “Peripheral treatment for head-mounted displays.”
CERN Confirms Discovery Of New Particle Consistent With Higgs Boson
The European Organization For Nuclear Research have announced their observation of the heaviest boson particle ever found, which has given a strong case for proving the existence of the elusive Higgs.
Researchers Invent Oxygen-Restoring Micro-Particles, Gives Life To Those Who Can Not Breathe
A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have invented a liquid solution containing tiny, gas-filled micro-particles that can be injected directly into the bloodstream to quickly oxygenate the blood.
Google I/O 2012 Keynote LIVE
Android fanboys and general nerds, some of the most important hours of the year start here. Welcome to Google I/O. The future of the company will be on show, and we'll be showing the whole thing LIVE.
Lego Comes To Chrome With Google Build
Google Australia and Lego have introduced Build, a Web GL Lego building simulator which is sure to take anyone back to their childhood of architectural intent.
'We Know What You're Doing.' Revealing Facebook Statuses Publicly Collected And Exposed
Privacy concerns have always been rather synonymous with the social era of the internet, and the rather appropriately named WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com is probably not going to help the situation. Revealing Facebook statuses from random people are collected and publicly displayed for the world to see.
Parkinson's Diagnosed By Voice Analysis Project
Parkinson's disease currently has no cure, is difficult to diagnose, and is an agonising condition for those living with it. This is where Applied mathematician Max Little comes in, as he introduced his fascinating work into spotting Parkinson's simply by analysing a person's voice.
Unfortunately Named Natalie Westerman (@Natwest) Bombarded With Twitter Complaints
Have you been accused of turning a routine software update into a massive debacle leaving huge numbers of people without access to their money this week? Nope? Neither have I. The same, however, cannot be said for 22-year-old English teacher, Natalie Westerman who's Twitter username @natwest launched her into the limelight this week, when NatWest's online banking fiasco hit the headlines.