"As police departments have gotten better at pushing down crime, we are looking now for the thing that will take us to the next level," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said. "I firmly believe predictive policing is it."

Ultra-agile microcoptors are the BOMB. Forget my jetpack, in the future I want one of these.

"...Mixed in with this cacophony of consumer content, there is contextually relevant material that needs to be discovered, sorted, and made "brand safe" for advertisers. Curation is the new role of media professionals."

Displax, a Portugal-based company promises to turn any surface–flat or curved–into a touch sensitive display. The company has created a thinner-than-paper polymer film that can be stuck on glass, plastic or wood to turn it into an interactive input device.

See? I always said I was a mutant. Now, the fact that I can get by on 6 hours of sleep proves it...

I give it ten minutes before we've got pain stimulus implants for Enhanced Interrogation purposes.

"Property abandonment is getting so bad in Flint that some in government are talking about an extreme measure that was once unthinkable -- shutting down portions of the city, officially abandoning them and cutting off police and fire service."

"GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into 'grains', just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in."

"Holmes's idea is that playing Tetris after a shocking event would take up the same mental resources that would normally be used to consolidate future flashbacks. In doing so, the notoriously addictive game could act as a "cognitive vaccine" against PTSD..."

Inventions and ideas from science fiction books and movies.

It may turn out that tremendously large volumes of data are sufficient to skip the theory part in order to make a predicted observation.

Charlie Stross reflects on the religious tone that "believers" in the great Singularity adopt, to the detriment of Victor Virnge's original thesis about the concept.

Hamilton Court — complete with a private school within its gates, groomed lawns and security guards — is just one of the exclusive gated communities that have blossomed across India in recent years.

"He is roundly despised by more traditional Hollywood paparazzi, who accuse him of having destroyed their highly individualistic business by hiring gangs of immigrant kids with digital cameras purchased on credit from Best Buy..."

"In recent decades, global trade, sophisticated marketing, artificial insemination and the demands of agricultural economics have transformed the Holstein into the world’s predominant dairy breed..."

Cuba is where agriculture without fossil fuels has been put to its greatest test, and it's passed with flying colours. The year 1989 ushered in the “Special Period” that will hit some countries in the not too distant future unless they prepare for it

Malwarez is a series of visualization of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity.

"The worm can figure out which users are trying to probe its command-and-control servers, and it retaliates by launching DDoS attacks against them, shutting down their Internet access for days..."