November 14, 2007 – 12:55 am
From CNET News.com.
After years of rumors of a Google phone, the search giant a week ago finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android.
On Monday, Google released the software developer kit, or SDK, for Android and announced that it would set aside $10 million to give [...]
October 23, 2007 – 9:43 pm
From Kotaku.
According to The Library of Congress, video games are just as important to our historical past as literature, movies and music. And at the moment, the LoC is teaming up with major universities across the country to begin a 2-year initiative with the sole intent of figuring out just how institutions can preserve video [...]
October 11, 2007 – 1:39 pm
From Washington Post by Rick Weiss.
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
“I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or [...]
October 6, 2007 – 2:04 pm
From Jalopnik. (Tokyo Auto Show Preview)
It looks ugly! But, it is cute!
Nissan’s Pivo concept car can drive sideways too. (Google news)
Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. on Friday unveiled a new version of its egg-shaped Pivo concept car that can drive sideways and has a small robot to assist with navigation or calm down angry [...]
October 4, 2007 – 1:24 pm
From Massive Free Education List by JimmyR.com.
Related:
Campus launches YouTube channel. (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to “Physics for [...]
September 18, 2007 – 11:43 pm
From Physorg.com.
A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes. Using ORNL’s Cray XT4 Jaguar supercomputer as well as computer systems in Italy and Germany, the team revealed a [...]
September 8, 2007 – 11:56 pm
From Physorg.com.
Since Sky in Google Earth debuted two weeks ago to let the public explore the heavens from their computers, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have jumped in to populate Google’s sky with the most recently discovered heavenly objects.
This week, Google posted on its Web site another layer of information users can add to [...]