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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Scientists in California have created an app that can help to predict earthquakes using an accelerometer that acts as a basic seismometer to detect vibrations from the quakes, The Telegraph reports. The one kink in the plan is figuring out how to make the smartphone differentiate between these vibrations and normal movement.
Researchers have been looking at ways to design a wearable computer for dogs to help them communicate with their handlers,MIT Technology Review reported. It would mainly be aimed at guide dogs or police dogs – ‘dogs with jobs’ as we like to call them – allowing them to activate sensors on a vest they wear to send a verbal message to their human.
“Oh hai, how may I transfer your call?” (Image: Shutterstock)
(Image: Seeing With Sound)
This James Bond-like piece of hardware translates video information into sound representations enabling blind people to see through sonar, Gizmodo reports. While the gadget currently uses spy glasses, users can also download the software to their smartphone and use its camera instead.
On Wednesday, Google launched its new Google Maps app, which aims to make it easier for you to find places to eat, drink, sleep and shop in your area as well as having new features to help you navigate around traffic. The company launched it with this snazzy video to show you how much better and more exciting your life will be if you use it:
(Google Maps/YouTube)
We all love a bit of Brickbreaker, but as Buzzfeed put it this week, this version is like it “did a whole bunch of drugs and is fun again”. There are games within the bricks within the game you’re playing. Mindblowing. Go on, give it a shot.
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Who has the balls to take out kenny, if they take out Kenny, Noonan will have to go aswell so taking two heavy weights out at once will be difficult.
No one wants the responsibility. A poison chalice and that’s the difference between our politicians and Britain’s. Cowards all.
Don’t think anyone can take the lead from English politics at the moment.
No Fine Gael td has balls
Reilly was the chief speaker in favour of Kenny during the Bruton heave 6 years ago. I remember him on the news etc.
He clearly has friends in the party and Kenny is shrewd enough (within his own party, at least) to bolster his numbers by bringing Reilly back into his corner to avoid any heave.
Doesn’t matter how many back-benchers he pisses off in the process, Reilly delivers the balance and he knows it.
This is Kenny simply saying: “I know you’re coming from me, and let me be clear [He loves saying that], I’m ready for a fight and I have the numbers”
I can’t think of one person in Fine Gael I’d like to be leader. And when I think some more, I realise there’s not one person elected to the Dail I’d want leading this country. What an awful shower we have.
rodrigo – fair point – but i think if i was really given that choice – any of the 3 main SDs would do it for me
“Look … things happen,” he said.
“Look”,…I can’t abide politicians who address the electorate through the media with the words “look” or “listen”. It is patronising, rude and displays a level of ignorance and arrogance that indicates a contempt for the electorate.
What about Regina Doherty…..
Listen Ron….. :-)
Regina Doherty would be a good leader for FG. Peter Fitzpatrick would also be a good choice.
@Fergal
To that Telecaster ?…… ;-)
No official comment on the situation from Enda. Sums up the man perfectly
His briefs are uploading his comments to enda.ie as we speak
The people in this party have one key consideration and it is not how best to serve the citizenry, but themselves.
The system is as bent as a mechanical orange.
Its not so much that Kenny is resilient, its just that the others don’t have the balls to do it. This is their second attempt now, pathetic really… and they are supposedly in charge of running the country….
The rats are getting ready to jump ship…………..watch this space!
Beggars belief that Reilly has been appointed to such a high position in the party. It shows the utter corruption in politics here..the man admitted he made a dogs arse of health but Kenny still looks after him. The tragedy of all this is that it will never change.
Enda looks after Enda. Period. Contemptable man.
Water off a ducks back…
Say what you want about Kenny but he’s unbelievably resilient. I never thought he’d whether that big heave a few years ago and look at him now.
@Tweety, It’s more like the standards within FG are that bad Kenny can appear to be resilient. Poor Enda, in a political, sense has little to admire if anything to admire.
Can we sue Kenny for all the property that N.am.a have given away under his watch.Take 2/3 of his pensions away from him before he slithers away to Germany to retire.
“It’s more like the standards within FG”
Hilarious stuff there Paddy, “standards” and “FG” in the one sentence :-)
Sorry about that Les, I was trying to keep the comprehension simplified for the FG supporters to red thumb me.
Kenny needs to hang in there another week until his advisers get back from holidays. He’s very isolated at the moment. Any hopes he had of holding on to power have been exposed over the last week as fanciful. The public will expect Leo in September/October, but they will get Simon Coveney as he more accurately reflects the FG membership.
Still no explaination as to how a primary care centre got moved up the list other than the fact he was minister for health and pulled a stroke playing parish pump politics. Come the next election people will still vote for politicians like this because Curropt politics is what we want. Just like Kenny leading the party it good that Lord O’Reilly is his deputy because with noonan these are the leaders of FG. People are so easily fooled with GDP growth of 26% and univerisial health care for everyone by 2018. These are the same people that walked the corridors of power while the church tortured single mothers they did nothing but turned a blind eye to the abuse. when the scandal broke bailed out the church with taxpayer money. It’s amazing how state owned banks can chase family’s through the courts taking away there family home but religious communities get charity status, tax exempt status and endless money from state agency’s while controling our schools teaching. The keeps us fighting with each other less we unite and kick them all into the sea.
O’Reilly is a useless idiot
The worse minister for health ever according to his doctor colleagues
Minister for WEALTH!
Democracy my hole…
Pff seems like it’s all a show at this stage
Its all a smokescreen for the many huge bills being shoved through the Dàil like the Broadband Privatisation etc
BUT surely FF will protect the citizens,,, Won’t they ?
Doing the job to the best of his ability?…….just like he did in the health service?….these fools think we believe what they spout, we dont anymore…toddle along…
Time for Kenny and company to go, retire to their ” fiscal space”
An E.U. Commissioners job like Hogan’s?
Two words, poison chalice.
Reminds me of Corbyn. He’s not wanted by his people but refuses to see the bigger picture and resign. Enda Kenny and CRONIES. Alive and well in Leinster house. Shame on those gutless spineless wonders called men. As for the women he promoted. Joan Brutal was only a teacher to them
Corbyn is there because he is wanted “by his people”. It’s the labour MPs that don’t want him there
Zuh?
Corbyn is probably the most democratically elected major party leader in Europe. Most leaders are elected by their parliamentary party.
Corbyn is a prime example of grass roots politics saying no to public grammer school boys running supposedly leftist parties.
Parties are hierarchical typically. The local organization vote for delegates, elected delegates vote at convention for candidates, elected candidates vote for leaders – it’s a pyramid scheme with favours being exchanged for votes. Corbyn is a democratic F U to the Labour pyramid scheme.
Mary, he is wanted by the people, it is the ones that Blair has seeded the Labour party with called Blairites who do not want him and are ignoring the democratic right of the people who elected him or are you saying that democracy is only the right of the elite to use?
Well it seems like thats what Enda is doing Alois
Dave, I believe that Enda really believes that making the rich richer is the right way for growth, that bread crumb politics and lobbying is the way as well as a FEDERATED Europe would be good as well, they are not. FG always looked after the elite and that is the core of all their policies and it again explains everything they do and say, it is scary.
Reilly sounded a complete spoofer on the radio this morning. As far as I understood sentors don’t do anything so he has loads of time but tds and ministers don’t. Says everything about the Senate.
Now it’s time for ff to call a GE.
And for FFS to win ;)
They know they will get their asses kicked too for supporting that shower of b*****ds for the past 3 or 4 months…. WHAT have they got to offer either ? Me-hole Martian is it ?
WE ARE DOOOOOMEEED
Kenny is trying to show he still has power since he was put in his place by Angela Merkel and Teresa Villiers. The excuse of a man has gotta go.
the appointment of james Reilly is shameful and shows a disregard for the rules and regulations of the house which is the Dail
“Bye girls……pair of w@nkers!!”
You never know what people are capable of when money and power comes into the equation or politics?
Nobody is going to challah him till after the budget is passed then it’ll be a race between the contenders and Fianna Fáil as to what happens next, if they start to move on Kenny , Martin will engineer an election as having Enda as FG leader will give FF more votes
You’d have to wonder what hold Reilly has on Enda Kenny …….maybe the old rumours about Enda being in the closet ??????
You had your fun and that’s matter
“If you say that to me again… I’ll put your head through the wall”
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