Lunchtime Web Roundup: Star Wars, reconnaissance drones, DSLRs vs compact cameras

Staff writers | Jul 3, 2009 2:10 PM
Will Xbox Live ads enhance the user experience, as Microsoft says? Also: real DSLRs vs high quality compacts, weird Russian monorails, and an intruiging rumor for Australian Star Wars fans

The best of the rest. Who's reporting what in the world of PCs, technology, science, broadband, sci-fi, products and more:

Apparently computers are better than humans at decoding ancient stone tablets

No dark matter, but gamma ray spectrometer detects uranium on our lunar cousin

That's no bird....the beautiful sinister future of reconnaissance drones

It appears someone in Europe has had the good sense to cap mobile roaming charges. Maybe one day in Australia 

NASA's first closeup images of lunar surface from current Moon orbiter 

Xbox Live ads will "enhance user experience". Microsoft's words, not ours

Real DSLR or a high-quality compact? Next up: Sigma DP2

The lost world of Russia's skycars

Australia rumoured to be location for Star Wars TV series

A roadtest of a Mini Cooper - only it's electric, and there's no petrol bill