11 hours ago

Mashable! According to Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Meyer, Google is looking to streamline its search experience. Using a jazz metaphor, Meyer explains that customers aren’t happy with the fact that Google’s search interface is too unpredictable (much like jazz, especially if you aren’t into i (Read More)

1 day ago

TechCrunch We’re here today in Mountain View, CA at the Googleplex for an event during which Google is promising to give a lot of details about Chrome OS. This includes a full product rundown and details about the formal launch, which is expected to occur early next year.Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management and Matthew Pap (Read More)

1 day ago

Lifehacker iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android/Symbian: Fring, the app that means to let anyone make free Skype, Google Talk, MSN, or SIP calls from any phone, has hit Android. It works just as expected, over EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. Making free Skype calls from a Wi-Fi connection on your handset is a pretty neat feature in itself, but Fring aim (Read More)

2 days ago

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Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Mitchellmckenna from YouTube: A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase. (Read More)

2 days ago

dzone.com: latest front page Apparently Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to JDK 7 at Devoxx today: I can’t say what to make of that really. For years Sun has been saying that there is no consensus on closures and delayed the formation of a JSR or expert group on the subject despite having three proposals, all with prototypes. Neal (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Toluju from YouTube: Update: If you enjoyed "Robert's speech," join his Facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-Erickson/180486194893?v=wall&ref=mf . On November 14 "Robert Erickson" was introduced to the Minnesota Tea Party Against Amnesty as a Minneapolis resident concerned about illegal immigration. Sometimes the devil (Read More)

3 days ago

Lifehacker Windows/Mac/Linux: Adobe is offering up a "prerelease" of its inescapable Flash software, adding in GPU acceleration for H.264 video in Windows, multi-touch support, and bug fixes. Anyone with Adobe... (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Toluju from Google Reader: All photos © Tim GrimshawAbove: The Empire State Building in New York City as viewed from the top of Rockefeller Center.All of these photos were taken with a tilt/shift lens to control the depth of field. View more of Tim Grimshaw’s Manhattan series here.Park Avenue.The Flatiron building.Central Park.Traffic approaching the (Read More)

4 days ago

Engadget There's something wrong when an advertisement is more memorable than the product. Nevertheless, here we have Toshiba's Space Chair ad campaign promoting its new 2010 REGZA SV LCD TV series, Toshiba's first with LED backlight and local dimming. The campaign will later expand to include a second take featuring the Satellite T (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Toluju from Google Reader: The effects crew over at Industrial Light and Magic have done it again! R2D2 made a little cameo in Transformers 2, and it was rumored that J.J. Abrams would give our favorite R2 unit the same easter egg treatment in his revamp of Star Trek. Now it’s been confirmed, and here he is!If you direct your eyes to the image above( (Read More)

4 days ago

UniqueDaily.com Space Chair Project. (Read More)

4 days ago

Ars Technica Righteous indignation erupted on the Internet last week following reports that Microsoft had patented sudo, a traditional command-line tool that is widely-used on Linux and some UNIX platforms for selective privilege escalation. Some enthusiastic patent reform advocates predicta (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Toluju from YouTube: John Cleese tells the truth. From the excellent documentary "The Art of Football from A to Z". More info @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804228/. (Read More)

Sep 15, 2009

Hacker News People are talking about Google's Go language. It supportsconcurrency, which here means light-weight user-space threads andinter-thread communications channels. In Stackless terms these are"tasklets" and "channels." SeeRichardTew's more detailed description of the correspondences betweenthese two languages.In Rob Pike'sGoog (Read More)

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