Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

The Korean firm Samsung has begun to update the software for the Galaxy SIII to correct a vulnerability affecting the Exynos processor. Device Users Galaxy SII, Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note were reported equipment failures, noting that remained obsolete and a "worm" controlled them.

This update is the I9300XXELLA and, for now, only available for the UK, although it is expected that in the coming days to reach most countries, as announced by the portal "Sammobile".

The failure occurs in Samsung phones on processors running Exynos codes 4219 and 4412, so that the American versions Galaxy S problem would be safe.


It is not at all unreasonable that a film is subject to certain "legal assessment" before its release. After all, no person or company wants to get "stuck" in a negative way when a movie plays a "sensitive matter". For "2001," Stanley Kubrick made a great effort to convey publicly that HAL 9000 had nothing to do with IBM, but in April 1966, almost two years before the premiere of the film, sent a letter referring to "the state of affairs with IBM "in relation to psychotic behavior HAL 9000-murderer who was going to show on the big screen ...

Already there are countless occasions when we talked about artificial intelligence in one form or another redirect all their might against the human race. One of the best examples is definitely in "2001", which turns 45 years old next April. The film has been studied by experts of all kinds, but in general, what we get closer to those who follow the tech world is the reaction of the AI ​​system HAL 9000, and its consequences. Almost two years before the film's release, the actions of HAL 9000 caused some concern in Stanley Kubrick, who through a letter sent to Roger Caras Productions Polaris requested additional information on IBM's position as to HAL 9000, because as puts it in the text, one of the main themes of the story is "a psychotic computer".

Both Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke has said repeatedly that the "advance letter" between HAL and IBM was just a coincidence. Officially, HAL belongs to "Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer", but the fact is that IBM, like other companies, has a presence in the film (some no longer exist, as in the case of Pan Am). The fact that IBM "being there" and HAL 9000 was dedicated to killing astronauts Kubrick warrant concern, but equally interesting is the response of Roger Caras. To be completely sure of the situation, contacted DC Faces Hollister, Corporate Director of Public Relations at IBM, which made it clear that the IBM name was not associated in any way with the failure of HAL 9000, and that obviously was not an IBM machine.



The final position of IBM stated that if it was associated by name to the "equipment failure", there would be no objection if Kubrick decided advisory companies mentioned in the credits of the film, nor would objections provided that IBM is "buried "in the list with other companies, and that was not specifically advertised as providing" technical advice "to HAL 9000. The decision no doubt came to fruition, but this response "diplomatic" makes it clear that in the halls of the giant blue someone asked the same question that Kubrick. Do not forget that IBM was going through a golden moment with the complete success of your system 360, and tarnish his reputation with a film, it was more indirect association, was crazy.

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