Daily Dispatch: Google Caffeine is imminent; CarPong lets you message drivers

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Google Is About To Get Caffeinated With A Faster Search Index (TechCrunch)

...When Caffeine does roll out, what can you expect? Most people won't even notice. The look and feel of Google results won't change. Caffeine is an under-the-hood upgrade to Google's search index algorithms. But it will significantly speed up how fast Google can present results, especially across different media types such as photos and videos.

SMS on Wheels: CarPong Is Vehicle-to-Vehicle Messaging (ReadWriteWeb)

...CarPong is a fun an innovative idea that allows users to send messages to other drivers by using their car's license plate number. Like blog commenting for vehicles, this service lets drivers write messages to other drivers, read what others have said about them and search for notes about other drivers. It's an interesting way to make our cars - and the people in them - a lot more connected in real life, and it just might work.

Rambler Socket tucks a recoiling extension cable, pinch of genius within your AC outlet (engadget)

...Put simply, the Rambler Socket is an in-wall box that contains 1.5 meters of extra cabling along with a traditional AC outlet.

Chimps Master First Step in Controlling Fire (LiveScience)

...The apes were experts at predicting where the fire would go, Pruetz noted. "I could predict it, sort of, but if it were just me, I would have left," she said. "At one time, I actually had to push through them because I could feel the heat from the fire that was on the side of me and I just wasn't that comfortable with it."

Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness and hangovers in development (Telegraph)

...Finally because it is much more focused in its effects, it can also be switched off with an antidote, leaving the drinker immediately sober.

It ain't half snuggly, Mum! The ground-breaking pictures of animals capturing life in the womb (MailOnline)

...For the first time ever, we can follow the embryonic journey of four different animals: our kangaroo, the lemon shark, the Emperor penguin, and the parasitic wasp. And one of the most jaw-dropping sequences is a glimpse of the joey just before he is born - a mass of kicking legs and punching arms, raring to go. It is a staggeringly ambitious project, and one that has taken several years to make. As Jeremy Dear, head of development at Pioneer Productions, puts it, 'Illustrating what goes on inside a living creature involves the very latest digital technology and innovative filming, combined with anatomically accurate models, to create the impression of really being in the womb.'

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