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Do you want chips with that?

Would you relish this cake quite as much if you knew it contained a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip? Hannes Harms, a student at the Royal College of Art in London, has come up with a design for an edible RFID chip, part of a system he calls NutriSmart. It could send nutritional data and ingredients for people who have allergies, or count calories for those on diets, for display on a smartphone. It could even tell your fridge when food is past its sell-by date. But who wants a stomach full of silicon?

鈥淲e are demoting the PC and Mac to just a device, like an iPhone. We鈥檙e going to move the centre of your digital life into the cloud鈥�

Steve Jobs unveils Apple鈥檚 iCloud service at the firm鈥檚 annual developer conference in San Francisco last week

Dive beneath the waves with Google

Jules Verne would love it. Armchair explorers can now investigate an area of sea floor larger than North America, thanks to a joint project by Google and Columbia University鈥檚 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. Only 10 per cent of the ocean floor has been mapped, but half of this is now publicly available via Google Earth. Highlights include the Hudson canyon between Long Island and the New Jersey coast, and the Mendocino fault off California.

IMF hit by hacker attack

A cyberattack on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have used a technique called 鈥渟pear fishing鈥�, in which staff are sent personal emails in the hope they will give away vital information in their replies. The IMF holds valuable data on the fiscal state of many nations, but it is unclear what was stolen in the 鈥渓arge and sophisticated鈥� raid, or who was behind it.