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Mobilize 2010: Negroponte Sees Tablets as Creative Tool
“Think about it. Turning pages. How ridiculous that is. It’s just unbelievably dumb,” said Nicholas Negroponte, describing the benefits of reading in bed on a tablet, and getting a big laugh from the audience at GigaOM’s Mobilize 2010. Negroponte described a scenario where your companion can fall asleep on your shoulder while you read a […]
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A galaxy of your own
Last December, we wrote about our immersive Google Earth environment, Liquid Galaxy: eight 55-inch LCD screens showing Google Earth in a unified, surround view. Liquid Galaxy at TED 2010 Since then, we’ve taken it to a lot of conferences, built Liquid Galaxies in Google offices all over the world and even put one in the […]
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WebP, a new image format for the Web
As part of Google’s initiative to make the web faster, over the past few months we have released a number of tools to help site owners speed up their websites. We launched the Page Speed Firefox extension to evaluate the performance of web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them, we introduced […]
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Ukinut obavezni vojni rok
Od 1. januara 2011. na služenje vojnog roka biće upućivani samo oni koji to žele, saopštila je Vlada Srbije. Precizira se da se to odnosi i na regrute koji su zamenili služenje vojnog roka civilnom službom.
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Do you actually care about privacy?
I’m not sure you do. If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t have a credit card, because, after all, they know everything you spend money on. And you wouldn’t use the phone, because somewhere, there’s a computer scanning what you say. What most of us care about is being surprised. You don’t want the credit […]
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Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt
A domino chain of resignations at the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks followed a unilateral decision by autocratic founder Julian Assange to schedule an October release of 392,000 classified U.S. documents from the war in Iraq, according to former WikiLeaks staffers. Key members of WikiLeaks were angered to learn last month that Assange had secretly provided media […]
