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It is the hot new thing on Wall Street: Pc’s Set at High Speed.. can outsmart or outrun other investors, humans and computers alike. It is called high-frequency trading — and it is suddenly one of the most talked-about and mysterious forces in the markets.  Powerful computers, some housed right next to the machines that drive marketplaces like the New York Stock Exchange, enable high-frequency traders to transmit millions of orders at lightning speed and, their detractors contend, reap billions at everyone else’s expense.

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Remember the robot Toyota is developing that seemed to be the next step in robots moving similar to humans? Well, they have already been trumped. Boston Dynamics, the company that has introduced the BigDog rough terrain locomotion robot and a robot able to jump 25 feet in the air (VIDEO), have now introduced the Petman. Petman was developed to test military clothing, but since it walks just like a human, it is just another step in making robots that will be able to chase you. At this pace, robots will be able to run at 50 mph at peak efficiency in just a few years.

Robots one step closer to being able to chase people | Robot Armageddon

Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high. – VIDEO

A new internet game is about to be launched which allows ’super snooper’ players to plug into the nation’s CCTV cameras and report on members of the public committing crimes.

The ‘Internet Eyes’ service involves players scouring thousands of CCTV cameras installed in shops, businesses and town centres across Britain looking for law-breakers.

The Internet Eyes’ website will also feature a rogue’s gallery of the so-called ‘criminals’ along with a list of their offences and which internet user caught them.But civil rights campaigners today condemned the game, which launches in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, next month, and branded it ‘a snoopers paradise’.They claim nosey neighbours could snoop on homeowners putting the wrong rubbish in bins and even motorists guilty of the most minor misdemeanors.

Players who help catch the most criminals each month will win cash prizes up to £1,000.

Cracking The Brain’s Numerical Code: Researchers Can Tell What Number A Person Has Seen

By carefully observing and analyzing the pattern of activity in the brain, researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen, or how many dots a person has been presented with. These findings confirm the notion that numbers are encoded in the brain via detailed and specific activity patterns….more

Forget caller ID… A coming wave of “social” mobile phones and Applications is likely to tell you everything you ever wanted to know and more about the person calling you.

An application called Robo.to, available in the fourth quarter on the iPhone and handsets that run Google’s Android operating system, offers a stream of information about callers, including personal videos, photos and their current location.

» Robo.To Website

Telstra’s national internet network went down for an hour today, a company official says. The outage is understood to have affected all Telstra home and businesses broadband and mobile internet customers across Australia. All services were quickly restored by about 8.50am, Telstra spokesman Craig Middleton said.

Sky News: Telstra Internet restored nationwide

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit Obama to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | CNET News

Soldiers training in White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for action in Iraq and Afghanistan got some high-tech help in an exercise intended to prove that new devices operated by the soldiers themselves can make the missions they are preparing for less dangerous in the future.

» NY Times

As innovation continues at this frantic pace, Google reveals caffeine: a new faster search engine

Google has revealed project “caffeine”, a new test version of its search engine which it claims will be faster and more relevant than ever before.

Most won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, Google spokesperson added: “"Google is always working on new technologies to improve the quality of our search services. We hope this new system will improve search in the areas of speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness."

Would you like to test drive Google’s ‘caffeine’’? ► www2.sandbox.google.com

Orange County Irvine’s IOGear may have something of interest. Its upcoming HDMI Control Center, part of the company’s new audio-video AVOIR product line, simplifies the union between PC and TV and other high-definition video sources by relying on what IOGear knows best: a KVM switch.

In layman’s terms, all it does is allow you to switch between your large TV your PC, TV, Playstation.. Join all to one box, the ultimate entertainment center.

Great! now you can become the ultimate couch potato!

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Source » Orange Country Register Blog