Dubai’s supposedly doomed, with half-finished buildings littering the skyline as their wealth trickles away like sand through a timer. Before I get more poetic, Abu Dhabi looks to be faring better, if this eco-city is anything to go by.
China keeps growing like a giant red octopus fed by nuclear power and monosodium glutamate, a country that keeps spending money in pharaonic projects. Some useful, like the fastest train in the world. And some eerie and worthless, like Ordos.
You know what’s been missing from GPS mapping? Highly detailed 3D renders of the buildings you’re driving past when you’re driving through the city. Well, that or unicorn riding fairies. Whereis have just announced that they’re going to be showing off the 3D models of Sydney and Melbourne in upcoming devices that use their maps.
SF Mayor Gavin “Handsome” Newsom just announced via Techcrunch that the city will start placing crime, health and other city data online for people to use. What’s it for? Think iPhone apps that show restaurants’ health code ratings, for one.
Just like an American tourist in Europe, this German robot is completely lost and can only understand basic gestures like emphatic pointing to help it to its destination.
