Gmail Displays the Images Sent by Your Contacts

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Gmail has recently improved the way it displays external photos. Until now, you had to manually whitelist email addresses and this was tedious.

"When you receive an email that contains externally linked images, Gmail usually doesn't display the images automatically. This behavior is designed to help protect your privacy; if we displayed the images automatically, it could potentially allow the sender of the email to see that the images are being fetched, and therefore know when you've read their message," explained Google.

Gmail changed this system so that you no longer have to whitelist contacts if you've sent them at least two messages. "We'll only show images in messages that are authenticated, so you won't have to worry about seeing images in messages where the sender's name or address is spoofed."

This means you'll see the message "Images are not displayed. Display images below" less often. If you don't like the new feature, you can always disable it in the Settings by checking "Ask before displaying external content".

It would be nice if Gmail added more features that let you manage the messages sent by your contacts: search options that restrict the messages to a certain group or all your contacts, filters that label the messages sent by your friends.

Google Helps You Understand Recursion

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Google uses the "did you mean" feature, which normally corrects misspellings, to illustrate a nerdy joke: defining the word "recursion" using "see recursion" and pointing to the same definition.

"A recursive process is one in which objects are defined in terms of other objects of the same type. Using some sort of recurrence relation, the entire class of objects can then be built up from a few initial values and a small number of rules," explains MathWorld.

For more information, search Google for [recursion].

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VIDEO. Here is breaking video in the accident of Felipe Massa. Felipe Massa’s condition following this accident in Budapest moments ago is stable.

The crash was at the Hungarian Grand Prix qualifier today. Massa is currently recovering for a one hour surgery. Attending doctors told press in news conference that “Massa’s condition is serious, life-threatening but stable.”

Massa is expected to be alert and attentive by Sunday, says doctors. The surgery to correct a fracture to his skull during a Saturday accident is said to be successful.

Ferrari issued the following statement:

“After the accident during the qualifying session of the Grand Prix of Hungary, Felipe Massa was airlifted to the AEK hospital in Budapest. Felipe was conscious at the arrival at the hospital and his general conditions remain stable.

“Following a complete medical examination it emerged that he had suffered a cut on his forehead, a bone damage of his skull and a brain concussion. These conditions need to be operated on after which he will remain under observation in intensive care.”

Earlier this week, as covered on LALATE, Henry Surtees died in a F2 race.

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South Africa strikers challenge Jacob Zuma

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Up to 150,00 council workers have gone on stike in South Africa to demand higher pay, leaving public transport paralysed, clinics unstaffed and rubbish uncollected.

The stoppage by the South African Municipal Workers Union, which is demanding a 15 per cent pay rise against an employers’ offer of 11.5 per cent, is the latest in a series of strikes to hit the country.

Since Jacob Zuma was inaugurated as president two months ago there have been walk-outs by construction workers, which halted work on World Cup stadiums for several days, and unofficial protests by doctors, while transport and mine workers have also threatened action’ There were also riots in townships across the country last week over dire living conditions.

The situation amounts to a shortened political honeymoon for Mr Zuma, a populist who came to power on a “pro-poor” platform and co-opted the support of unions and the Left in his struggle with his predecessor as leader of the African National Congress, Thabo Mbeki.

Many poor South Africans still do not have running water or electricity in their homes, 15 years after the end of apartheid, and Mr Zuma is already facing pressure to deliver on his promises, while balancing the demands of his former allies with the need to reassure business in the face of the global downturn.

At a weekend rally to thank voters for supporting the ANC he had to plead for time. “Give us a chance,” he told the crowd.

Felipe Massa ‘active’ after Hungarian Grand Prix crash

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Injured Formula One driver Felipe Massa can now communicate “actively” and is able to move his hands and legs, a Hungarian Defence Ministry spokesman has said.

Brazilian Massa, who fractured his skull in an accident during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday, is waking up from sedation more and more frequently.

Spokesman Istvan Bocskai told Hungarian television that Massa, whose wife is expecting their first child, spent the night calmly and an ultrasound examination carried out in the past hours was “reassuring”.

Massa would also have another brain scan, Bocskai added.

“He’s woken up (from sedation) more and more often now and he’s able to communicate actively, that is, he reacts when he’s talked to. We are optimistic, in our hope a slow recovery is beginning.”

Bocskai said Massa could move his hands and legs, signs that his brain likely suffered no particular damage, but doctors were not at the stage where they could be totally sure of that.

Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo will fly to Hungary on Monday to be at Massa’s bedside.

Last year’s championship runner-up was flown to hospital after being hit on the head by a bouncing spring, weighing almost a kilo, that broke free from compatriot Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn car.

A Defence Ministry official had said on Saturday the driver had been in a “serious, life-threatening condition” before an emergency operation.

The accident, which is likely to rule Massa out of the next few races, brought back grim memories of the crash that killed compatriot and triple champion Ayrton Senna at Imola in 1994 and led to renewed concerns about safety.