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Google are looking to expand Street View to include the insides of buildings. Google photographers are currently visiting businesses in select cities in the US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Any business can apply for a photo shoot, and demand will help us decide where to send our photographers next. More here.
BitFenix have a tshirt design contest, where you can win a case. If you can't draw to save your life or failed art in third grade, don't worry! You can still win a Shinobi by rating your favorite t-shirt designs! Some signup and facebookery shenanigans required, but it's open to anyone worldwide.
The Australian Synchrotron is in financial peril. The Sunday Age understands the synchrotron's board has made contingency plans for its closure, with funds due to run out in June next year - just five years after it opened. Last week's state budget gave no extra funds to the facility, which supports the work of 2500 scientists, has 120 highly skilled staff and is producing scientific discoveries of world importance.
From Wombo, about StolenCameraFinder.com: One of my friends just tipped me off to this very cool website/webcrawler. Essentially you tell them the serial number from a camera that has been stolen from you, it will then go out searching for photos on the web since it was stolen. If you don't know the serial just drag a photo that was taken with the camera and it will automatically extract it. They also have a plugin for Chrome that will grab EXIF details for photos and send them to their website in the hope that it comes across a photo taken with your old camera or somebody elses.
This is a bit left field (and a couple of weeks old) but dadust2 sent word of concerns about OCZ's finances following an analysis of their reporting. "OCZ has misrepresented its SSD growth and has financial irregularities that are nearly impossible to reconcile," a short seller at Copperfield Research wrote, referring to solid-state drives. The report also alleged CEO Ryan Petersen has failed to disclose a criminal background involving charges of theft, drug violations, and forgery. A "short seller" has an interest in the stock dropping, but beyond that I don't really know what the deal is there.
Techgage report on Linux SSD TRIM support. Owning an SSD that supports TRIM is great, but while Windows users have the benefit of having TRIM enabled for them, Linux users need to take the manual route - at least, at this point in time. In this article, we tackle the simple process of doing so, and also show how to verify that TRIM is indeed working as it should be.
Check out this amazing kinetic sculpture of San Francisco, 35 years in the making. The elaborate sculpture is comprised of multiple "tours" that move pingpong balls through neighborhoods, historical locations, and iconic symbols of San Francisco, all recreated with a little glue, some toothpicks, and an incredible amount of ingenuity. He admits in the video that there are several toothpick sculptures even larger than his, but none has the unique kinetic components he’s constructed.
Also quite stunning is Jaguar's upcoming electric supercar. Four electric motors at the wheels produced a combined 778 bhp and a whopping 1,180 lb-ft of torque. That's good enough to propel the 1,350 kg body from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed of 200 mph.
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