Famed author and technology journalist, Steven Levy, posed a question/bet on his Google+ stream: My bet (literally) is that most of the video we watch in 10 years will be live — whether a persistent connection with friends or co-workers, streams from the cameras of friends and strangers, or the increasing amount of pro entertainment …
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The Dalai Lama is on Google+
The Dalai Lama is on Google+ and has a growing fan base of 1.3 million followers and frequently shares photos and nuggets of Buddhism. “There is a saying in Tibetan that “at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar.” The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, …
Here at the threshold of Spring – by Daniel Ibanez
Here at the threshold of Spring… This little concept study is about the state of my inner-life, and its coming out of a harsh and frozen wilderness. Photoshop painting found via Google+ A previous piece by Daniel – winter watercolor
Before, after, and a year later – satellite images of the devastation from the Japanese tsunami
On the 1-year anniversary of the earthquake/tsunami that hit Japan, Google Maps updated its imagery all along the coast. This included side-by-side shots of two specific regions, the Shiogama Port and the Sanriku Bridge. The photos are: years before, days after, one month after, and a year after. The devastation is incredible, but so is …
Say hello to OpenStreetMap – the Wikipedia of maps
In October 2011, Google finally revealed pricing for Google Maps services. Lightweight usage was still free…significant load volumes would begin to incur charges: basically, services and applications that generated more 25,000 map loads per day would be charged $10-$40 for every additional 1,000 map loads. For businesses put off by the new costs of Google Maps, …
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Today is International Women’s Day – celebrate and show your support
Today is International Women’s Day. Celebrate all the wonderful women in your life! Also, take some time to help support an issue: Women in the U.S. make 81 cents to the dollar men earn doing the same job. Nearly 50 years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, on average women are still paid less …
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Google challenges any hacker to take down Chrome – "I am the king of the world!"
Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome For the last three years, Google’s Chrome browser has left the world’s premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down. Google announced Monday evening that it’s offering up to a million dollars in rewards at the annual …
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Google challenges any hacker to take down Chrome – “I am the king of the world!”
Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome For the last three years, Google’s Chrome browser has left the world’s premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down. Google announced Monday evening that it’s offering up to a million dollars in rewards at the annual …
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An election year Democrat promise – 1 million more graduates in science, math, and engineering
President Barack Obama proposed $80 million in new government funding for a program to boost science and math education in U.S. schools. The aim of the new proposed funding is to train 100,000 specialized teachers, who would help to “meet an ambitious goal, which is 1 million more American graduates in science, technology, engineering, and …
Feeling Sick? Google "Flu Trends" Tool Smarter Than The CDC
A new study in Clinical Infectious Diseases shows that Google Flu Trends can predict surges in hospital flu visits more than a week before the Center for Disease Control (CDC). For the study, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers compared Baltimore-specific data from the Google Flu Trends website, which estimates influenza outbreaks based on online searches for flu information, to ED crowding and laboratory …
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