A gap-year student will join Jeff Bezos on his ego trip to the edge of space — because the original passenger is too busy. The anonymous auction winner had spent an eye-watering $28 million for a ticket on the spaceship, but has dropped out “due to scheduling conflicts.” The seat will now be taken by Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen, who will become the first paying customer to fly on the New Shepard rocket....
A UK teenager has been charged with inciting riots after she used BlackBerry’s Messenger (BBM) service to encourage friends to copy the scenes of violence that had sprung up elsewhere across the country. Wereportedearlier this week that RIM, the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, was engaging with police over the role its BBM service was playing in the London riots. And as the Telegraphreportstoday, an 18-year old woman from Clacton, in Essex, stands accused of intentionally encouraging or assisting in the committal of an offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007, after sending a message to friends on August 8th using the messenger service....
“I got 500 on a girls head who wants that bread? Hit me up anyway possible.” In a move that could be part ofThe Worlds Dumbest CriminalsTV show, one teenager decided to advertise his needs for a Hitman on his Facebook status update. Nineteen-year-old Corey C. Adams of Pennsylvania offered to pay $500 for someone to kill a girl he had been accused of sexually assaulting last June. However the young women saw the status and reported it to the police....
Twitter’s decision tointroducethe ‘Quickbar’ to the latest version of its iPhone app has stirred up plenty of negative reaction over the weekend. While Twitter is set totweakits design to make it less annoying, it seems that the UI element people are calling#Dickbarishere to stay. Over the weekend we shareda fix for the problemthat works with jailbroken iPhones. If you’d prefer not to jailbreak, it turns out that the solution is right there in the App Store....
Tel Aviv pilots ‘electric road’ in attempt to charge public busses on the fly Air quality The pilot is part of the municipality’s drive to boost electric vehicles and improve air quality. At scale, it could also reduce the need for charging stations and petrol stations. Meital Lehavi, Deputy Mayor for Transportation at Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, said: “Transforming a road into an electrified surface and a means for charging, through advanced and effective infrastructure, will enable the acceleration of the transition to electric buses....
