Two people in love in the city by the bay

If enough photos are taken of the same location and shared online, it might be possible to put together a computer algorithm that turns those photos into time lapsed imagery. Engineers from Google and the University of Washington have done exactly that, with photos of Lombard Street in San Francisco, A volcanic lake, Buildings, Sculptures, a glacier, and all sorts of other locations

Children taking part in a study to measure how much exercise they do fooled researchers by attaching their pedometers to their pet dogs. About 200 children in east London were given pedometers to automatically count how many steps they walked and ran. Mile End Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine was surprised by the activity levels recorded in some obese children. Professor Nicola Maffulli said: “Then we realised they were attaching the pedometers to their dogs’ collars.” The pilot study in Whitechapel required 11 and 12-year-olds to clip a pedometer to their waists, with researchers at the centre collecting the readings by satellite.