Google’s self-driving car
Within about six years, Google’s self-driving car technology may appear in Toyotas, Fords, and other widely available vehicles. It all depends on how the latest rounds of talks between Google and the automakers play out.
1 in 4 adults hold educational credentials other than an academic degree
A report from the U.S. Census Bureau says that in the fall of 2012, more than 50 million U.S. adults, or one in four, had obtained a professional certification, license or educational certificate apart from a postsecondary degree awarded by colleges and universities. This is the Census Bureau’s first-ever report on this topic.
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European Union rules digital games and software can be resold
EU rules sales of used software legal.
Are you looking for a second-hand copy of Angry Birds? The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that software authors cannot prevent customers from reselling their products.
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Study Shows Underage Drinking Laws Do Save Lives
Underage drinking laws save lives
State laws that prohibit people under the age of 21 from buying or possessing alcohol, and from driving with any amount of alcohol in their system, save 732 lives each year in the United States, according to a study examining 23 years of research on the subject.
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Santa License
What Was Presented When Santa Was Pulled Over After Hitting The Eggnog To Hard
What did you do the Christmas your child questioned the existence of Santa Claus?
Ate Santa’s plate of cookies? Dressed up as Kris Kringle? Dropped a white glove in the living room?
Didn’t work, did it?
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E-Fuel100 MicroFueler: A Personal Refinery
E-Fuel100 MicroFueler
Meet the EFuel100 MicroFueler, which parent company E-Fuel says is the “world’s first home ethanol product.” It’s a personal refinery system that hooks up to a water source, a power source, and a waste water disposal outlet–“just like a washing machine,” as Floyd Butterfield, E-Fuel’s vice president of biofuels and technology, described to reporters in a press conference Thursday in New York.
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Low Speed Limits Have Opposite Effect
Phony speed limits lead people to believe that the law is bendable
Efforts to manipulate driving behavior by setting speed limits artificially low may have had just the opposite effect, eroding respect for speed limits, a US researcher reported on Thursday. More than a third of the people surveyed believed it was safe to drive 20 miles an hour above posted speed limits, and 43% thought it was safe to drive up to 10 miles an hour over, said Fred Mannering of the department of civil engineering at Indiana’s Purdue University.
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Computer Games Can Sharpen Minds Of Older Drivers
A major US insurance company has set out to prove that playing computer games can sharpen the minds of older drivers so much that they deserve discounts on their auto policies.
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Australia Issues First License to Clone Human Embryos
Which one is different?
The Australian government has issued its first license allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos to try and obtain embryonic stem cells.
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Finally, a License to Have Sex
Requiring a sex license may change everything
A new license is revolutionizing people’s sex lives these days – it’s called STFree card.
Manhattan-based company STFree Certifications provides its health-conscious customers a sexual history “license” with a phone number on the back that enables them to prove their testing backgrounds to potential partners.
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