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Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
via Official Google Reader Blog by dolapo on May 12, 2008
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. Sometimes we use it to kill time, other times for answering important questions that come up during brunch: What is Tyrol's first name? How...
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Stanford Computer Science Grads Getting $95k Offers From Google
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 31, 2008
Google and Facebook are fighting hard to hire this years crop of computer science graduates, we’ve heard, and ground zero is Stanford. Most of the class of 2008 already have job offers. Last year, salaries of up to $70,000 were common for the best students. This year, Facebook is said to be offering $92,000, and Google has increased some offers to $95,000 to get their share. Students with a...
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The Idea Behind "Can Google Hear Me"
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 10, 2008
You might remember the crazy story behind CanGoogleHearMe.com: Aaron Stanton had a great idea he couldn't bring to life and he decided to pitch it to Google. Last year, he created a site to share his story and managed to convince Google to hear his idea. Since then, a lot of things have happened, other companies became interested in his project and he created a prototype, with a small team of...
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Beware of Freeconomics
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on February 26, 2008
A few weeks ago we published a piece on this blog entitled The Danger of Free, in which we discussed the rise of free - a marketing strategy where digital products are given away. This month's issue of Wired magazine features a cover storyon the topic by editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. The article is a preview of his forthcoming book, called (you guessed it) Free. However in this post we look...
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The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud
via Jonathan Schwartz's Blog by Jonathan Schwartz on March 03, 2008
I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past. Frankly, I'd never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher from UCSD gave me a basic education in astronomy - and explained the Hubble looks at celestial bodies whose light is just now reaching us. But it can "only" see 12 billion years into the past - and...
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Google To Become Open Source Science Repository
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on January 19, 2008
Google is said to be preparing to launch a massive repository of science data at research.google.com.The project, known internally as “Palimpsest” will become a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets
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Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 29, 2008
It’s sadly clear that our current leaders have little understanding of technology and why it’s important to our economy and culture. That has to change.We’ve been interviewing 2008 presidential candidates for the last few months to get them to state, on record, their positions on ten key technology related issues (Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis...
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Tiinker is the Anti-Digg
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 09, 2008
Whereas the social news service from Digg relies on members to select and rank content, a new startup from Sydney, Australia, tiinker, does just the opposite: it treats each member as an individual and learns what he or she likes. The service, an intelligent news aggregator, uses A.I.-like technology to determine your interests and then adapts to show you the news stories you will find most...
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Ancient Roman computer was used to chart the skies
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
Some of the mystery surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer recovered from a 2100-year-old Roman shipwreck near BritainGreece has been unravelled. The device was an astronomical calculator -- and it employed a differential gear!Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered...
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