If this is true, it’s quite frankly amazing – but I have to say I’m not convinced. Comedy actorCraig Rowinrecently posted a video to YouTube asking for one million dollars. He had no specific need for it, he just wanted it. After his initial plea to celebrities and other millionaires to share their fortunes with him, he followed up with a couple ofadditionalvideosand even anappearance on TV newsin Alabama. All that persistence seems to have paid off – from his latest video it looks like a millionaire actually came through....

Irina Werning, a photographer from Buenos Aires has started a “then & now” project that aims to compare people with their childhood photos, attempting to capture the same image many years later with the same retro look. Werning says she’s fascinated by the retro pictures and wondered ”how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today “, and a few months ago, she decided to actually do it....

What happens when you put together hydrogen balloons and a remote-controlled mini RC tricopter armed with fireworks?Something exceptionally cool. RC Explorerhas posted a DIY tutorial for mounting roman candles on a RC tricopter, a project that’s equally as dangerous as it is righteous. The mod was created by a RC enthusiast in Sweden who strapped two 100 pack rockets coupled with a fan to break-up the smoke. All in all, the project took almost 18 hours to pull off including the editing of the video....

Google Goggles for Android has received a new update (version 1.3), allowing users to take a photo of an unsolved Sudoku puzzle, the software will then analyse it and solve it upon request. Google Goggles, if you didn’t know, is an innovative service that allows smartphone users to search the web by simply taking a picture with their handset. Today’s update brings not only a Sudoku solver but also faster barcode recognition, support for all print advertisements that have been in circulation since August 2010 and a torch mode to illuminate subjects (on supported handsets)....

It’s been almost two weeks since Amazon’s EC2 and RDS service took a fall sending an enormous number of websites and web appscrumbling to their feet. One of the biggest criticisms of the whole affair was Amazon’s deafly silence. As startups and businesses were left to apologise to their customers because of Amazon’s failure. Amazon maintained its silence. Today, two weeks later, Amazon has issued an apology and a post mortem –found here....