As the first operational stealth ship in the world, the corvettes are designed to be electronically undetectable at more than 13km in rough seas and at more than 22km in calm seas.

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How much fun would it have been to fly behind him and record the whole flight!

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The camera uses about 40,000 identification points, looking primarily at a person's forehead, eye sockets and nose bridge, said Ryan Zlockie, director of product management at Bioscrypt. The facial-recognition system has passed tests with identical twins and professional face molds, Zlockie said. A person registered with facial hair who subsequently shaves doesn't have to be reregistered, but somebody who undergoes plastic surgery does, he said.

It's expected to be released in the second half of the year or early next year to consumers.

Read With desktop camera, your face can be your password at CNET News.com

The new Google Apps Premier Edition costs $50 per user account a year. It includes around-the-clock telephone support, and 10GB of storage per user compared with 2GB. The new edition also includes a guarantee of 99.9 percent uptime for Gmail and application programming interfaces that businesses can use to migrate data, enable single sign-on and do other integration. A free version targeted at educational institutions, Google Apps Education Edition, offers the same features as the premier edition except for the storage size. There is also Google Apps Standard Edition, which is free, but lacks the features of the premier edition.

10 GB is sweet! 99.9% uptime is nice, but I honestly haven't ran into any point where I remember Gmail being down for more than 2 minutes. If you haven't tried Gmail yet, seriously do it, if you need an invite let me know!

Read Google Apps Premier Edition - let the games begin! at ZDNet.com

An interactive machine with a voice-sensitive camera atop the television in their classroom linked them to a museum expert.

The fifth-grade students were able to ask questions and talk with the museum expert. Pretty cool!

Read Suttons Bay students visit the Smithsonian - via TV in the Record Eagle

Mary and I were just talking last night about end of the world type stuff, governments keeping tabs of it's citizens, and computer chips implanted in people with possible mind control. I know, I know, some very crazy stuff, but how far-fetched is it really?

If you live in Great Britain, not that crazy after all. Apparently records on every child in the country will be kept by the government to help determine how kids are doing and if they have good parents. It's been tested on a local level and now the British Government plans to take it nationwide, as early as next year, by introducing a regulation in Parliament in the fall, which would allow it to become a law.

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Computer records holding details of school performance, diet and even whether their parents provide a 'positive role model' for 12 million children will be held by the Government.

Police, social workers, teachers and doctors will have access to the database and have powers to flag up 'concerns' where children are not meeting criteria laid down by the state.

This is potentially very scary stuff, especially for parents.

Read Big Brother database to record the lives of all children at the Daily Mail