Google Glass privacy warning, 'invisibility cloak’ breakthrough and soul legend goes bankrupt – The news in world records
Record-breakers in the news today
A London-based campaign group has warned Google Glass and other technology risks creating a world in which privacy is impossible.
"Stop the Cyborgs" has called for limits on when the augmented reality headsets, which are set to go on sale next year, can be used, along with guidelines to inform the public when they are being filmed.
The campaign comes as politicians, lawyers and bloggers debate how the gadgets could change society.
The most people wearing Groucho Marx glasses was achieved by 4,436 participants in an event organised by the City of Chicago's Outdoor Film Festival in partnership with the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on 21 July 2009.
Lindsay Crumbley Scallan from Georgia was tracked down after a China Airlines employee found the Canon camera on a beach in Taiwan, 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from the cove in Maui where she lost it.
The oldest message in a bottle spent 97 years and 309 days at sea. A drift bottle with number card 646B, was recorded by Captain Brown (UK) as being released at 60 00.00'N 000 39.00'E on 10 June 1914. It was recovered by fisherman Andrew Leaper (UK), skipper of Lerwick fishing boat Copious, at 60 6.37'N 000 25.17'E on 12 April 2012.
Physicists at the University of Texas in Austin have managed to render an object – an 18-centimetre cylindrical rod – effectively invisible by preventing the microwaves from bouncing off the rod as they normally would, using what they call a "mantle cloaking" technique.
While its not quite up there with Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just yet, with the material only working within a limited range of light waves, scientists say the technique could one day potentially be adapted to make items invisible to the human eye.
The first modern-day stealth aircraft used in combat was the American F-117 Nighthawk, made by Lockheed Martin. It first flew in 1981 and remained classified until November 1988; in all, 64 aircraft were built. The aircraft was first used operationally in the US invasion of Panama in December 1989, when it bombed the Rio Hato airfield.
Soul music legend Dionne Warwick has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed she owes over £6m in taxes.
A lawyer for Warwick, known for her hits including 'Walk On By' and 'Say A Little Prayer', claims that financial mismanagement is behind the debt and that she has already paid the taxes but now owes money in additional fines.
The largest corporate bankruptcy amounted to $613 billion (£380 billion) filed by the US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., on 15 September 2008.
The bank succumbed to the subprime mortgage crisis, which started the worldwide recession in 2008.
The company was forced to file for bankruptcy after losing 94% of market value in 2008 and a failed sale to Barclays PLC and Bank of America Corp.