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rippeltippel writes:
Ars Technica UK reports that the UK government has released the rules to get self-driving cars onto public roads. As the article reports, drivers will be required to have "a high level of knowledge about the technology used" (i.e. they'll be techies) and — most notably — will have to mimic the act of driving, to avoid confusing other drivers. The original PDF can be viewed here.
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rippeltippel writes:
The Guardian reports of a tech breakthrough which would allow to synthesize petrol from thin air. Arabs and Texas to bomb UK soon? :-)
Quoting from the article:
A small British company has produced the first "petrol from air" using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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"We've taken carbon dioxide from air and hydrogen from water and turned these elements into petrol," said Peter Harrison, the company's chief executive, who revealed the breakthrough at a conference at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London.
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rippeltippel writes:
Few days ago the Economist published an article about HP quitting the tablet market. Nothing new I said, until I read "the announcement showed that the firm had finally seen the light about the tablet market—namely, that there is no such thing". OK, but are games closed with iPad as a clear winner? Possibly not: "hackers have embraced the Nook, 'rooting' its underlying Linux software [...] so it can run many more applications from Google’s online app store and elsewhere".
A sibylline "review" on the Amazon Kindle page quotes: "They've cracked it — this is the future", possibly referring to this article. Can it possibly be read as "Crack-able tablets ARE tablets' future"?
