Look, no hands

This car can drive itself from A to B. It's taking part in the Darpa Grand Challenge, a Pentagon contest for inventors to come up with self-driving vehicles - and the ideas are already starting to be used in today's cars.
On a quiet university campus across the water from San Francisco, an enthusiastic bunch of young computer boffins are working on what could be the car of the future.


No-one at the wheel


The car in action

"Sometimes we talk to it as if it's an unruly child," says co-team leader Ben Upcroft.

Another member of the team jumps out of the front seat, crosses the road and presses a red button on a box in his hand. "The RAV4 is going autonomous," he says into a radio.

The car moves, slowly forward, like a learner terrified of touching the accelerator. The steering wheel is turning. It is driving itself. The speed is frustratingly slow, and from time to time the car veers towards the verge.

But what's impressive is that no-one is sitting inside.

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Technology on Bangalore Street

How our IT ppl using technologies effectivly every where. Here is a sample, techie transfers fund for a penalty from his laptop nearTrinity Circle in Bangalore on last Tuesday.

New Seven Wonders: Voting closes, but will Taj make it to elite list?

WAH TAJ! There was a frenzied last-minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj through to the list.
WAH TAJ! There was a frenzied last-minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj through to the list.New Delhi: The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome and Peru's Machu Picchu are leading contenders to be among the new seven wonders of the world while uncertainty loomed over the status of the Taj as a massive poll drew to a close on Friday midnight with votes already cast by

more than 90 million people, organisers say.
The winners of the Internet poll to pick seven 'new' wonders of the world are due to be revealed at Lisbon, Portugal, on Saturday, the date aptly being 07.07.07. The official declaration ceremony is scheduled to begin at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon between 0030 and 0100 am (IST) on Sunday and will continue till 0345 hours.
Also in the top 10 are the Acropolis in Greece; Chichen Itza pyramid in Mexico; Eiffel Tower in Paris; Easter Island; Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Taj Mahal in India and Jordan's ancient city of Petra.
In India, there was a frenzied last-minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj Mahal through to the elite list.
"The voting picked up like anything since Friday morning. In fact, there is such a rush of votes that we are not being able to give the exact figure, as it is changing every moment and we are not in a position now to collate the data through servers as it might create problem for the voters," said R D Bhatnagar, vice-president of I Media Corp, the official partner of the N7W Foundation in India.

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Mexico City: Has Bill Gates been knocked off the world's pinnacle of wealth? A respected journalist who operates a financial-news website in Mexico says it's quite possible.
According to Eduardo Garcia's latest calculations, which first appeared Monday on his Sentido Comun (‘Common Sense’) site, Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim climbed into the No. 1 spot with a fortune of $67.8 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2007.
Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates has an estimated wealth of some $59 billion, Garcia said.
Slim controls Mexico's largest fixed-line telephone company, Telefonos de Mexico, or Telmex, and owns other businesses in sectors from construction and music to restaurants and cigarettes. Garcia says Slim's current wealth represents nearly 8 percent of Mexico's total Gross Domestic Product.
In April, Forbes magazine reported that Slim had overtaken U.S. investor Warren Buffett to become the world's second-richest person, with holdings of $53 billion.
But according to Garcia, Slim took over the No. 1 spot as early as late March, with a fortune surpassing Gates' by about $1 billion. Garcia attributed Slim's latest rise to a 26.5 percent second-quarter bump in share prices for America Movil SA, the largest wireless service provider in Latin America, which Slim controls. Garcia's estimate of Gates' latest worth is based on a 5.7 percent rise in Microsoft shares during the same period.
Garcia acknowledged that his second-quarter calculations do not include possible gains in Gates' holdings outside of Microsoft, which according to Forbes represent more than half of the software mogul's fortune. He also noted that he does not take into account Slim's holdings outside of his numerous companies.
''I say that Slim is No. 1 because I have the latest figures of Forbes,'' Garcia said. ''When Forbes revises their numbers, OK, then we'll have to wait and see.''
In a statement Tuesday, Forbes did not comment on Garcia's calculations but said its next valuation of Gates' wealth will appear in September, in the annual Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. A calculation of Slim's worth will be published next March, the magazine said.
Slim spokesman Arturo Elias Ayub told The Associated Press that Slim does not pay much attention to such lists.
''As he has said many times himself, he is not in any competition,'' Ayub said. ''He is dedicated to working in philanthropy and creating jobs in Latin America ... and the truth is he is not in a race to see who wins first or 10th or 15th place.''