The BBC release their tech show R&D TV under the CC licence as a free download in multiple formats. Here's the OGG one:
http://ftp.kw.bbc.co.uk/backstage/rdtv/RDTV_ep1_30mins.ogg
Google launches Similar Images, which lets you find photos that look much like one you've found already. Sometimes:
http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/google-similar-images-first-look/
The first netbooks powered by Google Android are spotted in the wild. 256MiB ARM box with 1GiB flash and a flippable screen for US$100:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/first_google_android_netbooks_spotted
With Windows 7 not yet complete, Microsoft starts the ball rolling on Windows 8:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/21/windows_8_file_storage/
Hacking and casual use of US Navy communications satellites is widespread in Brazil:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom
More accusations of cyber-spying are levelled at China by America, including access to the plans for the US Joint Strike Fighter:
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/04/chinese-hackers-nick-joint-strike-fighter-plans.ars
Boston Dynamics is working with MIT on soft-bodied robots that leave a slime trail:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2251
And finally. His Holiness The Pope is set to be the head of state of a country powered solely by renewable solar energy:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=aN2RJ9ob3OoY&refer=environment
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