It's interesting to note that the Chrysler Airflow (1934) was intended to be aerodynamic, but didn't sell well, which led to the Chrysler Airstream (1935) which looks a bit streamlined and modern but actually isn't aerodynamically designed.

The first one was built a bit further north and uses a dual overhead catenary and has a counterpart in a warmer climate in USA.
Both built to test how the technologies will work in practical conditions.
https://www.trafikverket.se/en...

Perhaps the car could generate simulated obstacles at random intervals for the driver to react to.

If the cell phone service as such isn't shut down a modem app would make uucp possible.

If we were really there, the comet would look black, black, black and more black. And the shadows would be slightly, but probably imperceptibly, darker. The images are extremely enhanced to exagerrate the tiny variations of deep black.

The question of colour is interesting. Space probe cameras don't have RGB sensors, they're monochrome with lots and lots of switchable filters for specific purposes, like seeing seeing specific gases like nitrogen monohydride or a mineral like orthopyroxene, and many are in UV or IR. It's a bonus if the science lets you make more or less true colour images too.

The resolution will be much better when the probe gets close to the nucleus as the narrow field camera won't be able to see all of it at once. What I've seen so far seems to be only part of the full frame.

Data harvesting only adds value if it can be used to predict something which Google finds useful, what feeds you've got in common with someone else apparently wasn't useful enough in presenting, for example, search results.
But without Reader, I wouldn't have gotten a Google account. At least not then.

Of course Telenor themselves mention the bandwidth: http://www.telenor.com/media/a...
Fibre optic with lots of Gb/s to the European mainland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Can be noted that any citizen of a country which has signed the Svalbard treaty can move there without needing any permit.

The improved version could instead of being better be cheaper.

Interview with Kayser ("we've only found the first five genes"): http://www.scientificamerican....
In short: Hair and eye colour prediction: 0.9, height: 0.75, everything else "much lower" than 0.75 with 0.5 being totally random.

And from the article itself: "The next step is to run larger studies in different populations to confirm that the variants found so far are statistically reliable." which explains why there aren't any more test examples.

A bit about how it works ("Fine Tuning of Craniofacial Morphology by Distant-Acting Enhancers"): http://www.evolutionnews.org/2...

The interesting question is: What do cars think of the Trolley Problem?
It's not when software or hardware fails to do as intended that is the big problem when assigning blame. Nor when the car does something because it's been told to. It's the usually hidden and unused ethics which makes this difficult and interesting. Rules and duty versus utility and consequences.

It's most likely wrong to think that all self driving cars will act the same when faced with a necessary choice of who to kill and who to save. Unless governments require all such software to be written to very exact specifications about how to deal even with situations nobody has thought of, of course.

Should the cars' ethical system reflect their owners' views on the trolley problem?
Should cars be forced to use a specific ethical system contrary to what some owners would like?
Should cars learn by experience and adapt their ethics?

If you ride in your self driving car when it is, would you like it to kill you to save five others or the other way round?

"Downgrade" data-link isn't exactly right: It was a replacement of the Swedish with Link 16. Which doesn't have all the features the Swedish did 20 years ago but has the important feature that it's NATO compatible. The problem was (is?) that there's not space for both in a Gripen, so suddenly the C/D version wasn't compatible with most data-link resources in the defence force, but the older A/B version was.

From the image, they would not fit in lightbulb sockets. I don't think that's a mistake, I think it's a hint that you can't buy them in the real world.

I just tried that with a couple of paragraphs: Google Translate returns the exact text including mis-spellings even though it had correctly identified what the mis-spelled words actually should be.
This suggests that there are language independent methods of "identifying" writers.

"Sweden's" official account? I didn't even know about it until now. But they got BBC to write about it, even though there's really no news content apart from "innovative marketing approach", which probably helped increase the number of followers from 8000 to 18000 but I wonder if the extra 10000 are interested in Sweden or in how this will work (and if it's really amateurs writing) and if any of them had any trouble telling Sweden and Switzerland apart before.

You're forgetting to mention that the main character cheats. On medical and performance tests determining his suitability for a space mission.