Adaptive traffic lights trial aims to cut fuel consumption by 20% Smart corridor The first year of the project will focus on the development of algorithms, followed by a simulation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The final year will see everything laid out in a real-world environment in Chattanooga, using the existing two-kilometerMLK Smart Corridor. The corridor – which was developed two years ago – has served as a test bed for research in smart city developments and connected vehicles....

iSpicePhotosis a new iPad app from Lebanese developers Fadi Bizri, Chady Kassouf and Davina Atallah. Conceived in the space of 48 hours at Lebanon’sYallaStartupWeekendin Beirut in November of last year, the app recently launched to the public. iSpicePhotos aims to cut through the noise on Facebook, giving users a quick and easy way to get straight to your most popular photos, as well as allowing you to browse photos according to various factors....

When Google’s +1 featurelaunchedto help users of the world’s most popular search engine share the results they found to be interesting or most useful, it immediately signalled the search giant’s determination to provide functions that could compete with Facebook and its complete dominance of the social networking market. By clicking Google’s experimental +1 button, Google users are able to highlight a list of websites on their Google Profile that were useful to them, helping to better rank search results and suggest sites of interest to friends that also use the Google service....

Google released the +1 button for sites before Google+ itself was unveiled, and yet until now, there is no easy way to place a ‘share to Google+’ button on your blog posts. If I read something interesting, I’m much more likely to want to share it on Google+, where it can be seen on my profile, rather than +1, a list which I’m sure is largely ignored. Alex Moss, the Head of SEO at Banc Media and a WordPress plugin developer, has come up with atemporary solutionto get a Google+ share button on to your posts, by adding the code directly into your WordPress theme....

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