The Google Homepage features a guy in number of different flamboyant costumes. If you’re wondering who Google’s honoring today, it’s a not a scientist or mathematician, as usual, but a musician: Freddie Mercury.
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MIT and Princeton have come up with a way to avoid red lights if you drive slow enough. SignalGuru, an iPhone app, uses pictures from dash-mounted smartphones to calculate the speed you should travel to avoid hitting red light, or having to brake.
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The Wall Street Journal reports on a new study that says browsing the web at work can help reduce boredom and increase productivity. What do you think about that, or are you currently browsing to take a break off of work? Via
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More and more professors are banning laptops from their classrooms. This is coming at a time when more and more colleges are also requiring students to buy laptop computers.
What do you think?
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Facebook is one of the largest sites on the Internet.
But most people don’t know the story of how it was founded.
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David Risley has a blog post on what he views as the top five mistakes people make on Twitter.
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Remember The Visual Display of Quantitative Information? It was a book by Edward Tufte of Yale that showed innovative ways of showing a lot of numbers in intuitive and information-dense ways.
Now somebody’s come up with a poster that tries to make sense of the federal budget along the same lines.
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Google announced that they are going to be building high-speed networks 100x faster what most people have today.
They’re going to price their broadband service competitively to what other companies are charging.
I say it’s about time.
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Google introduced what they’re calling Safety Mode for YouTube. YouTube’s community guidelines are already pretty strict, but Safety Mode takes it a step further.
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The Gizmodo blog did some arithmetic, and it figures that all the digital subscriptions you need to keep all of the devices some people view as necessary these days can cost near a thousand dollars.
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