Watching Google destroy Cr-48 laptops for fun can’t have been easy for any of you, but it turns out that the wily geeks of Mountain View had a clandestine purpose to their malevolence after all.

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The plan is that a digital hub will provide fibre connections to every community in the UK by 2015 The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will today announce a further £50m of funding for new projects to push forward the government’s ambitions to get superfast broadband to every community in the UK. The intention is to get a “digital hub” connected by fibre optics in every area by 2015.

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Edward Horsford has taken a series of high-speed pictures that captures a water balloon…without the balloon. The shots are snapped at the point of explosion, when the balloon skin breaks open.

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Every now and then, I receive calls from publishers asking me which books I would like to review for you.  Some of them I turn down.  But when I heard the title The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done , I quickly said yes and asked them to send me a copy.

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