Google Wind, starting April 1st. Tour the repurposed windmills of the Netherlands on a self-driving bike.
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Google Gnome, available April 1st.
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Google Play for Pets, available April 1st.
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How do you take Google Street View photos of the Arabian desert? You can’t cruise the dunes in a camera-mounted car without damaging the delicate sand structures, so you put your camera on a camel. A female dromedary, actually (one hump, not two) named Raffia.
“Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest …. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.”
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Millions of people use their smartphones to access information, and software developers have been optimizing websites for mobile devices. Google has a new initiative to reach those neglected by these efforts, rotary phone users. Google is asking developers: “Ready to Go Ro?” The new rotarization tool set was introduced today, April 1st.
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In 1946, industrialist Diet Smith gave his detective pal Dick Tracy the gift of cutting-edge mobile technology, the two-way wrist radio, and the square-jawed crimebuster became a one-man radio patrol car. In 1964 Tracy got an upgrade, a two-way wrist TV, and another in 1986, the two-way wrist computer. Today’s personal electronics companies have taken a page out of the Crimestoppers Textbook by introducing Android Smartwatches.
The Google search engine has been available in China since 2006, but the firm complied with government censorship restrictions (‘The Great Firewall of China“) until 2010. Disclosure of this fact resulted in Congressional hearings and a Google redirect from China to its Hong Kong site. The conflict was uneasily resolved later after the government realized that 70% of the country’s Web surfers use China’s homegrown search engine, Baidu.
Google China recently had its license renewed, dodging further censorship conflict by building a Chinese version of the DoubleClick advertising delivery platform as its core in-country business.
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Remember “The End of History? Sigh. How quickly they forget.
We now we have The End of Memory. We forget more these days, but it’s okay. We’ve all out-sourced our long-term memories to search engines. That’s according to a new report by researchers from Harvard, Columbia and the University of Wisconsin:
“Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips,” Betsy Sparrow,Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner, Science (abstract)
If you used Google on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in place of the Google logo, you saw this:
Google celebrated the birthday of painter Jackson Pollack (1912-1956). Google wished happy birthdays to René Magritte, Marc Chagall, and Piet Mondrian. Stephanie Murg of UnBeige says the Pollack homage is “likely the work of Googler and graphic artist Dennis Hwang [Hwang Jung-moak]” with permission of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation and the Artists Rights Society (ARS).
You can celebrate, too. Be Jackson Pollack (be sure to move and click).
Mr. Pollack had a readily-identifiable abstract expressionist style. If you need help identifying the artist, look here.
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