It turns out that Google should have just let the robot keep driving. In an ironic turn of events, one of Google’s self-driven automatic cars has gotten involved in what appears to be the project’s first accident. The irony? It was the human driving the car manually at the time that caused the crash. The crash was spotted by aJalopnik tipsterand sent into the site after they took a shot of the car post-fender-bender near Google’s Mountain View headquarters earlier this week....

Does this sound familiar? “I don’t want to have to change my work methods to be able to use this machine. it should adapt to my way of life, not the other way around. that is why I’m not using this machine” I remember people telling me this when I showed them the first Palm Pilot. but also when I talked to graphic designers when I showed them my first Macintosh Plus....

In myarticleearlier today about iClouds chances for success I mentioned that it was likely that we would see some web components of iCloud eventually and that it was too early to gripe about their absence. Now a Macrumors reader hasuncoveredwhat seems to be a portion of Apple’s MobileMe architecture that has been ported over to the new iCloud branding. The reader sent themselves an event invitation from inside iOS 5 and got this screen, showing what resembles a MobileMe event page but with iCloud branding, hosted on the iCloud domain....

Like in the United States, Australia has always prohibited in-flight phone use, but that changed last July when the Australian Communications and Media Authority cleared airlines to allow flyers to use their phones on aircraft. Flightglobalreports that Virgin Australia has fitted its most recent craft with AeroMobile connectivity suites that allow voice calls, SMS and 3G data in the air. Currently, the airline is using these units for crew communications, but it’s said that these units will be switched on for consumers soon after a delayed launch earlier this year....

Whoever is in charge of Microsoft’s Twitter account decided to tempt fate today. “If this gets 20k likes, we’ll replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy,” the accounttweeted. At the time of writing, said tweet has 117K likes. If this gets 20k likes, we’ll replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy.pic.twitter.com/6T8ziboguC — Microsoft (@Microsoft)July 14, 2021 It looks like it’s time for Clippy’s great comeback. Before there was Cortana, Siri, Alexa, or the Google Assistant… there was Clippy....