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In a Northamptonshire town, a driverless car is being demonstrated with the hope that it could be an alternative to the car. The Cybercar is controlled by a computer and uses lasers to avoid obstacles. Its called by pressing a button on the route and will go direct to a destination.

The demonstration is being undertaken in Daventry and ends on 5th October and Daventry District Council members hope that this could be a viable way of increasing the use of public transport.

Similar demonstrations are taking place throughout Europe with the European Commission research group CityMobil. The vehicles can be seen on a test track at the town’s Eastern Way.

Reference for posting: http://news.bbc.co.uk

A huge research carried out in Denmark showed what many cell phone manufacturers have been hoping to see published for a long time now - cell-phone callers are no more likely than anyone else to suffer a range of cancer types.

The integrity of many researches of this kind is often questioned, but this one tracked 420,000 Danish citizens, 52,000 have used cellphones for more than 10 years, making it the largest research not finding any connection between cancer and cell phone use.

Literally.

The Wash. Uni boffins programmed an Atari 2600 to interface with headgear that monitored ‘electrocorticographic activity’ from the brain’s surface to detect signals based on thought processes. By calibrating his thoughts with video game triggers, the teenager was able to learn the ropes ‘almost instantaneously’.

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No kidding, now you can have a Bioengineered Buddy. A company named Bio-Genica has developed these pets using what they define as “Zygote Micro Injection”; While we don’t understand shit about biologic terms, the idea itself seems very exciting.

Genpets will have life span of 1-3 years, they will come in 7 different personalities that you will choose from, and yes, they are real, Genpets are living, breathing mammals.

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You may think the $10K XPS 600 Renegade PC you are dreaming of just bought is expensive, but for the Japanese government it’s nothing comparing to the $400,000,000 supercomputer they have.

It was manufactured by NEC after the project was authorized Japan’s NASDA & PNC, the works on this supercomputer started 1997 and were completed 2002. This 640 processor node supercomputer was benchmarked with Linpack with a result of 35.86 TFlop/s. The total memory of this one is 10 TB (TeraBytes) and each processor contains 8 vector processors running at 500MHz with 16GB of shared memory.

The $400M supercomputer is mainly used for international projects which are related to atmospheric, climate, and oceanographic simulation.

After decoding the painting’s emotion now it’s time for scientists to actually tell us how would the most popular art piece in the world sound, if she could talk of course.

Dr.Suzuki was the one to reach the genius result after trying to figure out how tall she was by the painting, he got an estimated result of 1.68 meters. Then using electronic devices he analyzed her skull structure and crossed checked the results of her body height to reach the final sound of the woman that actually never spoke.

Suzuki believes the results he reached are 90% accurate: “her wide lower-face part and sharp chin are on of the indicates that her voice is low“.

Click here to listen to Mona Lisa’s voice according to Dr. Suzuki.

Can the Black Holes¹ save us some green dollars?? The answer is yes. According to NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Black Holes are the most fuel efficient object in the Universe.

The coauthor, Christopher Reynolds states: If a car was as fuel-efficient as these black holes, it could theoretically travel over a billion miles on a gallon of gas. Head author Steve Allen quoted:

“Just as with cars, it’s critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes. Without this information, we cannot figure out what is going on under the hood, so to speak, or what the engine can do.”

But according to Allen, despite the efficiency, the Black Holes take a long time to refuel.

1- A black hole is an object in the Universe that has such a strong pull of gravity, even light is unable to escape it. (More @ Wikipedia)