From Slashdot: a group of car enthusiasts find a stolen car, then use Facebook and Google Maps to locate the driver.

Full story: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/12/1712258&from=rss

This is simultaneously cool and creepy: http://cubo.cc/

As reported by Futurismic and New Scientist, researchers from New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed artificial intelligence software that appears to possess a rudimentary “theory of mind” comparable to that held by a four or five year old child.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has released the first HDTV images of the surface of the Moon, taken by its KAGUYA probe from an altitude of 100 kilometres.

In this speech transcript, Charles Stross turns his attention to the way technology’s going to affect our lives over the next twenty years.

According to the BBC, UK engineers are saying that tiny “smart” devices that can be borne on the wind like dust particles could soon be used to explore other planets.