A prototype of a self-driving car made by Google is seen on roads in Nevada after the first such license was issued in the US under new laws for autonomous-vehicle development. Other car manufacturers have indicated a desire to test and develop the technology in Nevada. Brilliant or unnerving?
This video released by the Anonymous hacking collective urges the US public to stop the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (Cispa) in the Senate. The bill, passed by the US House of Representatives on Thursday, encourages companies and the federal government to share information collected on the internet to prevent electronic attacks from cybercriminals, foreign governments and terrorists
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Originally published in the Observer on 24 April 1960. John Davy, the science correspondent, writes:
The machine is necessarily quite elaborate and is not intended to compete with “small desk top copiers”, the Rank firm says. The plan is to rent the machines to users for £30 per week, as is already done for many of the more elaborate office machines today. If 100 copies are made per day, the cost per copy will work out at just under 4½d. If 250 copies are produced, this drops to 4d per copy.
The dedicated office efficiency expert may be dismayed at a machine that makes it still easier to circulate copies of documents all round an office. But where copying is essential, xerography offers one of the most up-to-date and convenient ways of doing it.
While Leonardo da Vinci turns in his grave, behold the Mona Lisa – as the artist never intended. The Lo-fi gives the subject a little more colour in her cheeks, as well as a snazzy border and a weird green line behind her head. Goodbye, art!
See more famous images as viewed through Instagram’s filters - in hommage to the company which has been bought our by Facebook here.
Condition One is a new app that uses the iPad to deliver interactive, immersive video. Here, Benji Lanyado demonstrates how it works, and showcases the Guardian’s first commissioned immersive video, shot in Tokyo. To view it, download the iPad app from Condition One at conditionone.com
• The Guardian’s Tokyo beta experiments
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people useInterview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream | Media | The Guardian (via stephenabbott)
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