Google Scifoo, a science thinktank sponsored by Google, O'Reilly
and Nature begins. The Clippings author will be there for a few days:
http://www.nature.com/nature/meetings/scifoo/index.html
Microsoft puts HD Photo forward as a potential JPEG standard, saying
the patents will be royalty-free. But will sub-licencing be allowed?:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070801-microsoft-hd-photo-considered-for-standardization-by-jpeg-committee.html
The Creative Commons project is launched in New Zealand, and will
be run by Te Whainga Aronui The Council for the Humanities:
http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/
Google has apparently been showing off a prototype phone. It could be
an example for existing manufacturers rather than a googlephone:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028763
A plam lock that uses the image of the veins inside the hand to verify
the user's identity:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1147
And finally. The US Army deploys robots with guns in Iraq, and
fortunately they have yet to fire a shot:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/httpwwwnational.htm
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.