Cody Taylor

Can you guess what happened? Apparently the printing process is mostly automatic and is printed directly from the website in edible ink. The designer didn’t catch it and they tried to sell it to the purchaser.

Several dozen Mumbai slum residents protested the award-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” on Thursday, calling the film’s title insulting. The protest came amid mounting excitement in India — where the movie is set and home to many of its actors — ahead of Academy Award nominations later Thursday.

theodp writes “Remember Mr. Microphone? If you thought music couldn’t get worse, think again. Perhaps with the help of R&D tax credits, Microsoft Research has spawned Songsmith, software that automatically creates a tinny, childish background track for your singing. And as bad as the pseudo-infomercial was, the use of the product in the wild is likely to be even scarier, as evidenced by these Songsmith’ed remakes of music by The Beatles, The Police, and The Notorious B.I.G..”

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stefanparvu14 writes “Physicists in Switzerland and California have developed a new type of camera capable of imaging quantum correlations between pairs of photons. The details are presented in the current issue of the open-access publication New Journal of Physics. Unlike a conventional camera with a CCD imager, this camera is composed of Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) pixels implemented on a high-performance CMOS chip. One of the authors has provided more background for the non-physicist. Apparently, it could be used to verify the existence of Bose-Einstein condensates that are now starting to be produced in new ways.”

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An anonymous reader writes “A group of powerful Wikipedia insiders are pushing for FlaggedRevisions which will require a ‘trusted user’ to approve of edits before they go live on the online encyclopedia. There is also opposition but with support of founder Jimbo Wales it is likely to go through. The German version has tried the system, leading to three-week delays between edit and publication. The English wiki with its higher number of anonymous editors per trusted user is expected to suffer longer queues if FlaggedRevisions is implemented on all articles. This comes just a few days after Britannica announced that readers will be allowed to suggest edits and have them reviewed within 20 minutes. Will we see the day when Britannica can be edited almost instantly while editing Wikipedia requires fighting bureaucracy, patience and the right contacts?” Note that, according to the quote from Jimmy Wales in the linked article, this system would only be used “on a subset of articles, the boundaries of which can be adjusted over time to manage the backlog.”

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witherstaff writes “House Democrats have proposed billion in Internet investmentsas part of a sweeping economic stimulus bill that the full House is expected to vote on next week. The billion is considered a down payment on efforts Obama will make in this area over the next several years. Of course let’s not forget the 0 billion broadband scandal that the large telecommunication companies have been paid but never delivered on.”

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