Take a better selfie with Lily

Selfie sticks were the must have Xmas gift last year and now a team out of the UC Berkeley robotics lab, who built the first prototype using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino, have developed the Lily camera drone. Watch the video below to see how it works but basically it flies itself and can take video or stills of its owner. Its on my Christmas list.



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Calculating Ada The Countess of Computing

With Ada Lovelace Day fast approaching (Oct 13) the BBC has released a timely documentary all about her called "Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing". This is the first documentary Ive seen dedicated to Ada Lovelace and I learnt a lot. For instance I didnt know that she lost a fortune gambling on horse racing. She believed she could calculate the odds better than the bookmakers - she was wrong. The doco is available on YouTube, though I expect it will be taken down soon; otherwise it can be viewed on the BBc iPlayer.


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Will a robot take your job

With robotic technology advancing at a pace there is the obvious prospect that robots will start to perform a wider range of services and tasks and not be limited to factory manufacturing as they are at the moment. A recent article in Wired called "Robots Will Steal Our Jobs, But They Will Give Us New Ones" makes the argument that although many current jobs will be taken by robots new opportunities will arise - the most obvious of which is servicing and maintaining all the robots. Incidentally the photo here is of a robot that can cook a hamburger and the Japanese have robots that can prepare Ramen noodles.

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Tim Berners Lee didnt expect kittens to take over the web

You may have noticed that its the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has naturally been receiving quite a lot of media attention. At an Ask Me Anything event for Reddit last week Tim Berners-Lee was asked the following question:

Q: "What was one of the things you never thought the internet would be used for, but has actually become one of the main reasons people use the internet?"

"Porn," several Redditors prompted.

Tim Berners-Lee replied: "Kittens."

And its true that the Web, and YouTube in particular, have been taken over by cats: kittens, small cats, big cats, LOLcats, Grumpy Cats. So I cant really end this blog post without a cat photo can I.

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Take 78 mb 26 sms and 26 mms in Banglalink operator completely free for Independence Day

Hello everybody. The Independence Day will celebrate in 26 mar in Bangladesh. It is a proud of Bangladeshi. Now I am share a super news

of Banglalink. This is banglalink give 78 mb, 26 sms and 26 mms every customers for Independence Day. It is completely give for Banglalink clients.

You will find this 78 Mb Internet data in26 MB, 26 MBfor using Facebook; you get 26 MBto use WhatSapp.

To get this,go to the messageoption write “reg”  and send SMS “500”.

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