Ocean robot ‘plans experiments’: The Gulper AUV, using an embedded software engine called ‘T-Rex’, can navigate autonomously, and make planning decisions about how best to schedule its task list of experiments.
That A.C. Newman, he has an enviable work ethic. New TNP album is due May 4th!. I presume that’s a USA release date.
Rather excitingly, the recording sessions featured St Vincent, Will Sheff, and slightly less excitingly, the Dap-Kings horns, and Zach Condon. The album title is ‘Together’.
The New Pornographers are due to play this year’s Primavera Sound, although I suspect I will be giving it a miss this time around.
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to figure out, but PhotoBooth is amusing for babies.

Pixel Qi: Amidst all the talk of OLED and speculation about colour e-ink, this modal hybrid display might be quietly revolutionary.
IPL 2010 to broadcast live on YouTube: Google to be exclusive broadcaster for two years. The times they are a changin’.
Misa Digital Guitar MIDI controller: No strings, plastic molded body, 24 frets, touch interface, linux kernel, open source software stack.
Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans: fluid drag from animal motion could be as responsible as wind or tides for mixing the world’s oceans.
GNEVE: An inevitable addition to the available range of of digital video editing tools.
Octopus snatches coconut and runs: Amazing video footage of tool use by octopuses.
There’s a handy little command line tool nestled away inside Apple’s system WiFi framework.
Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport
It doesn’t come with a man page, but --help will print a usage guide.