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Autodesk is set to announce a batch of new features in its AutoCAD WS software that bring a Facebook-like activity feed into the arcane world of computer-assisted design software.

The advert, which will have a two-week trial, will use a high-definition camera to scan hundreds of thousands of passers-by. It will guess their gender based on the distance between their eyes, the width of their nose, length of the jawline and shape of their cheekbones. With a built-in computer, touchscreen and sound, it will be 90 per cent accurate, its designers say. "We're not giving men and boys the choice to see the full ad on this occasion - so they get a glimpse of what it's like to have basic choices taken away," said Marie Staunton, Plan UK's chief executive.

Tencent Holdings is China's biggest internet company, with 430 million users.  China's online advertising market expanded more than 40% to $4.2 billion last year, according to Media Partners Asia. The industry may exceed $10 billion by 2015, it said. Tencent CEO Ma Huateng is wooing that money by shifting his focus from personal computers to mobile devices.

Users can also share their favorite shows on Facebook and pair their mobile device with a web browser on a computer, which turns the device into a remote control or a second screen. Not in the US

Apparently quantum computing is happening right now which means Scrodingers cat is alive and dead.

Will virtual graduates demand virtual jobs?

Whoa, the article is over a year old but I had never heard of it. A FDA approved computer chip the size of a grain of sand and powered by our digestive juices. Awesome.

Now this is wearable computing. So many thoughts. Why does the logo look like Vyclone? Will Publicis have a no orgasms at work policy? I could go on...

Damn, I hadn't even imagined bubbles as the new computer-to-human interface;-)

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Does the future need us? Last year 1/3 on new energy in the US was solar. The internet of things takes an extraordinary amount of power to run. Will energy producing machine merge with computing machines to a self sustaining system?

"Five years ago, the possibility that computers would surpass humans at this work appeared remote"