Neurons to power future computers:

“It might mean that computers learn to see or to hear in the future rather than just rely on sensors.”

I’m going to move to Lewis where the robots won’t be able to find me.

Full story and pics at the New York Times, even if it does include the clumsiest opening sentence I’ve read this year.

“Alexa Chung was at that secret Strokes gig last night. I find her really irritating.”
“I’d like to find her really irritating. By rubbing her all over myself until I went red.”

…but London’s still beautiful

That’s about it.

Gizmodo reports that tropical storm Agatha caused this sinkhole to open up in Ciudad de Guatemala. Apparently it swallowed a house and a three-storey building.

So we all know that BP are trying to plug the Gulf oil spill by top filling it with mud…live on the internet, right?

Really interesting excepts from David Kirkpatrick’s new book about the birth of Facebook over at Techcrunch.com.

Check out Magnificent Maps for this amazing, zoomable, annotated hand-drawn map of London (as seen on Boing Boing).