Google building the new Manhattan project
Google X, home to the self-driving car and Google Glass, is the search giant’s factory for scientific bets that require generous amounts of capital and massive leaps of faith
The seven craziest findings in the US investigation of Apple’s tax avoidance practices
Leading up to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s testimony on his company’s dubious-if-legal tax strategies tomorrow, here’s the report (pdf) members of Congress are up in arms about. 1. Almost all of Apple’s foreign operations are run through an Irish company with no employees. The company told investigators that it lost all records concerning why Apple Operations International…
Apple Operations International, which provided 30% of Apple’s worldwide net profits from 2009 to 2011, doesn’t pay taxes anywhere!
So this is what Yahoo is paying 1.1 Bil for?
They can’t even seem to be able to count to 4„„
WIll the next Pope Inauguration picture look like this?
With the Google Glass coming to consumers in 2014, this is how I predict the inauguration of the next pope will look like.
A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
Space Oddity (by Chris Hadfield)
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6 seconds today = 2 minutes in the 70s
“Star Wars (1977)” Teaser Trailer (by cinematictrailers)
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All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS (by David Peterson)
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Sequenced the complete genome of a Neanderthal.
In the link below you can also find a file containing that sequence.
This Death star documentary sheds new light on the events leading to its destruction
Luke’s Change: an Inside Job (by Graham Putnam)
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Moonshot Thinking (by Google)
This is the reason that Google is accelerating away from facebook and apple. While they are tweaking the technology of tomorrow (graph search, TV!!!) Google is making Google glass, driver less cars and Artificial Intelligence (see Ray Kurzweil)
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An amazing example as to why html 5 is the future of the web and maybe even mobile. Form Follows Function
FFF is a collection of interactive experiences. Each experience has its own unique design and functionality.
check it out
Source: fff.cmiscm.com
We are nearing the death of the phone number.
Today, In a somewhat quiet move Facebook announced free VoIP over its messanger app, By doing so eliminating the need of the notorious “Phone Number”. Lets hope that others will join soon.
