Squirrel’s Comic Font Illustrates Google Car Crash

Augmented Reality comic books, Squirrels cause power outages, and a look at highway sign fonts. Also; how a former NASA administrator says they have lost their way, and a Google car hits a bus.

Former NASA chief on US space policy: “No vision, no plan, no budget”

During a congressional hearing Thursday, former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin had harsh words for the space agency

Squirrel Trouble

An electrified squirrel causing a black-out in your neighborhood is more than an unfortunate occurrence for all parties involved

The US government’s decision to scrub Clearview font from highway signs really frustrated its designers

After 12 years of deliberation, the US government finally took action on a controversial subject: Fonts.
In the Jan. 25 issue of government publication Federal Register, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced that it will deauthorize the use of Clearview as a typeface for signage. The edict applies across all 50,000 miles of freeway and four million miles of road in America. Every state in the union must now use an older, officially sanctioned font, known colloquially as

Google self-driving car strikes bus in California

As the light turned green, the autonomous vehicle tried to drive back to the center of the lane to get around the sandbags. The autonomous vehicle

ARIIA App

ARIIA is a simple, lightweight music player optimised for listening to your music on the road. It

A solar-powered soccer pitch in Lagos also uses players’ footfall to keep the lights on

Africa is already waking up to the possibilities that renewable energy provides, the African Union has pledged a $20 billion investment over the next decade. In East Africa, pay-as-you-go solar energy services are already proving a mainstream success. In West Africa, things are still at an early experimental stage. One such experiment is a solar-powered football pitch which also uses kinetic energy generated by footballers playing.


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