Sony QX ‘lens-style’ cameras for your smartphone: Is this the future of point-and-shoots?

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/165675-sony-launches-qx-lens-style-cameras-for-your-smartphone-is-this-the-future-of-point-and-shoots

Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) Technology Honda R&D has successfully demonstrated the ability of a car equipped with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) technology to detect a pedestrian with a DSRC enabled smartphone. This vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) technology uses cooperative communication between an individual's smartphone and nearby vehicles and provides auditory and visual warnings to both the pedestrian and drivers. The system is designed to mitigate the potential for a collision between the vehicle and pedestrian.

http://www.honda.com/newsandviews/article.aspx?id=7352-en

Samsung Galaxy Gear: Android-powered smartwatch arrives later this month. The Gear is a smartwatch, a wrist-worn touch-screen timepiece that talks to your phone, so you don't have to be forever fetching your phone from purse or pocket. It sits on your wrist and happily controls your music, tracks your exercise, installs your favourite apps -- it even makes phone calls.

http://reviews.cnet.com/samsung-galaxy-gear/

Nymi wristband turns your heartbeat into an electronic key that unlocks your devices. After testing the device on 1,000 people, Nymi was found to be more accurate than facial recognition, and about as accurate as fingerprint authentication.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/165537-nymi-wristband-turns-your-heartbeat-into-an-electronic-key-that-unlocks-your-devices

Microsoft buys Nokia’s phone business for $7.2 billion in an attempt to imitate Apple

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/165512-microsoft-buys-nokias-phone-business-for-7-2-billion-in-an-attempt-to-imitate-apple

Software brings eye contact to Skype, with a little help from Kinect. The new system, which is still under development, currently uses a Kinect to act as a depth sensor. Other than that the computer is fairly standard.

http://www.gizmag.com/skype-eye-contact/28843/

Coverity Scan service enables near perfect code quality for Python with .005 defect density

http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/194520/coverity-python-sets-level-quality-source-software

Rotich explained that her nonprofit tech company, Ushahidi [Swahili for "testimony"], wanted to tackle the problem of connectivity in Africa and created a rugged portable device with a battery that could work for up to eight hours between charges, and switch between ethernet, WiFi, 3G and, if lucky, 4G.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/201372484039912339.html

Intel’s former chief architect: Moore’s law will be dead within a decade

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/165331-intels-former-chief-architect-moores-law-will-be-dead-within-a-decade

A Melbourne man has done what Apple failed to do: turn the iPhone 5 into a full action camera capable of shooting 20 high-quality photos in one second.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/cameras/aussies-camera-app-brings-iphone-up-to-speed-20130903-2t3ci.html

Premier Weather reveals policy to publish credit card statements of government ministers as act of transparency

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/premier-weather-reveals-policy-to-publish-credit-card-statements-of-government-ministers-as-act-of-transparency/story-fni6uo1m-1226710108838

The online "fact-checker'' has been set up by welfare agency the St Vincent de Paul Society to help the needy. But it shows any household can save up to $500 on electricity bills and $200 on gas depending on which of nine retail companies they use and the fine print in each contract.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/st-vincent-de-paul-society8217s-online-tool-can-help-households-save-up-to-700-off-annual-electricity-bills/story-fni6uo1m-1226710139948

Lenovo CEO to share $3 million of bonus with 10,000 workers

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/lenovo-ceo-to-share-3-million-of-bonus-with-workers-20130902-hv1nk.html

11 Apple products made possible by strategic acquisitions (rather than own invention)

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/164846-11-apple-products-made-possible-by-strategic-acquisitions

People racing to buy concert tickets for famous acts such as Pink or Bruce Springsteen are losing out to high-tech scalpers who siphon off popular live event tickets using purchasing syndicates and software "bots".

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/fans-losing-to-online-scalpers-buying-tickets-in-bulk-20130830-2swcs.html