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http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/big-and-small-robots-showcase-their-skills-nist-alaskan-events
The LA Police Department has a customized 39,000-pound remote-controlled vehicle that can be used to deal with car bombs without any person needing to be near the bomb:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-terror-vehicle-20100529,0,7334317.story
The Baltimore Police Department found that their laptops and car radios was keeping them in their cars so they issued BlackBerry smartphones to their officers. This has replaced what they used to do on laptops or via dispatchers, making them more efficient and making the public happier with their interactions with police:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article480548.ece/Hi-tech-wireless-policing-works
Carbon Motors is creating a next-generation police car and has already received over 14,000 reservations (from 400 police agencies) despite not determining the price of their car yet:
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/carbon-motors-revolutionary-e7-police-car-already-has-14-000-reservations-ar91017.html
Soldier deployed in Iraq found out that his homeowners' association foreclosed on his $300,000 house and sold it for $3,500!
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/05/soldier-iraq-loses-home-homeowners-association-foreclose
It looks like the top kill failure means that the worst-case scenario for the oil spill is likely--oil and gas spewing into the Gulf until *late August*. The latest worry is that the disaster could spread much further because the hurricane season starts today and runs through November...forecasters expect a huge hurricane season and that could turn an environmental disaster into an unprecedented environmental catastrophe:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/worst-case-scenario-now-appears-likely
Sharply worded UN report declared that Iran has enough nuclear fuel for 2 nuclear weapons and describes, step by stop, how UN inspectors have been denied access to a series of facilities and how Iran has refused to answer inspectors' questions on a variety of activities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/world/middleeast/01nuke.html
Human trials are starting and there could be a vaccine to prevent breast cancer i just a few years!
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-in-the-future-breast-cancer-vaccine-1988493.html
As many as *3 million* Chinese babies are hidden from their parents every year in order to get around their country's one-child policy. It is interesting that China recorded 23 million births in 1990, but in 2000 they had 26 million 10-year-olds! Considering how some kids die before they reach the age of 10, it is interesting how they had 3 million more 10-year-olds than all the children that were officially born:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7787661/Chinese-hiding-three-million-babies-a-year.html
The One Laptop Per Child initiative has been trying to produce a robust laptop computer for under $100 for children and schools in developing countries...but they haven't been able to reach their goals over the years so they are now looking at making a tablet for under $100 instead:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46360&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Article about why Android 2.2 is better than the iPhone...shouldn't the author wait until after Apple unveils their new iPhone and upgraded OS later this month before coming to any conclusions?
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/7-ways-the-new-android-22-os-beats-the-iphone-915
Instead of the 2 or 3 times per year Android updates, Google is saying that things are maturing to the point where they may only release an Android update once per year:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15184465?nclick_check=1
Instead of putting a camera on a smartphone, Altek is putting a smartphone in a camera...it will be unveiled in June and is expected to run Android with a 14 megapixel CCD with 3x optical zoon:
http://www.androidcentral.com/altek-leo-14-megapixel-smartphone-possibly-running-android-definately-ginormous
Verizon says that their LTE data plans will replace unlimited plans with tiered data access--people will buy buckets of data access (similar to how family plans share minutes), with the data plan shared between devices. LTE will cost Verizon's per-MB data costs by 1/3 as compared to 3G:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1006&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=00000&PRODLETT=E&CommonCount=0
The iPhone has been the primary reason that AT&T has had the most traffic on its network in 2009 and that is expected to still be the case in 2010. In fact, the high traffic has been blamed for AT&T's network problems. However, in 2011 Verizon is expected to have the most traffic due primarily to its Android smartphones. Hopefully Verizon's coverage and early move to LTE will help them avoid the overload problems that AT&T had:
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/05/31/abi-research-smartphones-and-connected-devices-to-account-for-87-of-u-s-operator-cellular-traffic-by-2014.html
Apple sold more than 2 million iPads in its first 2 months since it was released. There are already 5,000 apps written for the iPad, with the medical apps being the most expensive category:
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/apps-ipad-surpass-5-000-device-sales-top-2-million/2010-05-31
Race driver got a speeding ticket on his way to competing in the Indianapolis 500...the speed limit was 55 and he was weaving in and out of traffic going over 100 mph:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/30/ap/strange/main6533142.shtml