Everyone already knows that Apple and Starbucks are great friends with the collaboration of the WIFI in Starbucks now there is something new on the Starbucks menu in the form of the Starbucks iPhone quick order application. Quickorder, as you can probably imagine, would enable iPod touch users to swing by their local Starbucks, order up their favourite drink and avoid a good deal of that always questionable human interaction.

Right now this is only a mock up but it most certainly does look amazing, something I would defiantly use. You can see more about it at Genoco.

The university of Michigan have created the most insense laser in the world Intentionally named in all caps by University of Michigan gurus in order to highlight its awesomeness, said laser contains 300 terawatts of power (or 300 times the capacity of the entire US electricity grid) and could “help scientists develop better proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer.” Check this picture below.

“If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of [HERCULES].” Damn….

Via: Engadget & Physorg

Today there was a fire at the PRQ data centre in Swedan, owned by 2 of the founders of The Pirate Bay. Several major torrent sites where affected.

The new head of Corporate development over at Google is David Lawee, as TechCrunch say "If you are looking to sell your company to Google, David Lawee is the guy to be stalking"

A source of TechCrunch say this guy is the new Vice President of Corporate Development at Google a spot that has been vacant since Salman Ullah left.

Lawee, who started off in corporate development at Google but was most recently their VP Marketing. He had global responsibility for all Google marketing activities. His worldwide mandate encompassed product marketing, field marketing, customer analytics, creative and advertising