10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. A search for habitable planets
"The Kepler Mission will, for the first time, enable humans to search our galaxy for Earth-size or even smaller planets," said principal investigator William Borucki of NASA's Ames research Center, Moffett Field, California. "With this cutting-edge capability, Kepler may help us answer one of the most enduring questions humans have asked throughout history: Are there others like us in the universe?"
More @ PlanetQuest
2. Latest Chrome a Step Closer to Linux, Mac
The latest release includes a major new version of the WebKit rendering engine, new customization options, security and speed enhancements as well as a new HTTP (define) engine that could herald the introduction of Chrome for Linux and Mac.
More @ InternetNews.com
3. Google's new favicon
Back in June, we rolled out a new favicon — the small icon that greets you when you access Google on your URL bar or your bookmarks list — and we encouraged our users to submit their ideas for this important piece of Google branding. We were impressed by the volume of submissions we received, and today we are happy to introduce a new Google favicon inspired by those submissions by our users.
More @ Googleblog
"The Kepler Mission will, for the first time, enable humans to search our galaxy for Earth-size or even smaller planets," said principal investigator William Borucki of NASA's Ames research Center, Moffett Field, California. "With this cutting-edge capability, Kepler may help us answer one of the most enduring questions humans have asked throughout history: Are there others like us in the universe?"
More @ PlanetQuest
2. Latest Chrome a Step Closer to Linux, Mac
The latest release includes a major new version of the WebKit rendering engine, new customization options, security and speed enhancements as well as a new HTTP (define) engine that could herald the introduction of Chrome for Linux and Mac.
More @ InternetNews.com
3. Google's new favicon
Back in June, we rolled out a new favicon — the small icon that greets you when you access Google on your URL bar or your bookmarks list — and we encouraged our users to submit their ideas for this important piece of Google branding. We were impressed by the volume of submissions we received, and today we are happy to introduce a new Google favicon inspired by those submissions by our users.
More @ Googleblog
4. 30’s style regenerative receiver
5. New PowerVR chip may give Apple's future iPhone HD, OpenCL
Hidden among the many announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a new PowerVR mobile graphics chip that could power advanced 3D, HD video and even general computing on an eventual generation of iPhones.
More @ AppleInsider
6. A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows
In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. They came from all over the world, sporting many of the usual signs of software mercenaries: jeans, ponytails, unruly facial hair and bloodshot eyes.
More @ NYTimes.com
7. Are We Killing The Planet One Google Search At A Time?
Right now the top stories on Techmeme revolve around a new piece in The Times of London that focuses on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches. In it, Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross (a star MIT graduate who is now at Harvard) posits that a single Google search generates 7g of CO2, versus around 15g for a tea kettle - something he calls a “definite environmental impact.”
More @ TechCrunch
Hidden among the many announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a new PowerVR mobile graphics chip that could power advanced 3D, HD video and even general computing on an eventual generation of iPhones.
More @ AppleInsider
6. A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows
In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. They came from all over the world, sporting many of the usual signs of software mercenaries: jeans, ponytails, unruly facial hair and bloodshot eyes.
More @ NYTimes.com
7. Are We Killing The Planet One Google Search At A Time?
Right now the top stories on Techmeme revolve around a new piece in The Times of London that focuses on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches. In it, Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross (a star MIT graduate who is now at Harvard) posits that a single Google search generates 7g of CO2, versus around 15g for a tea kettle - something he calls a “definite environmental impact.”
More @ TechCrunch
8. Windows 7 gets installed on MacBook Pro, explained
9. The Dark Art of Sound on Linux
I've been trying to get a USB headset to work gracefully with a variety of applications on Linux for quite some time. Recently I had a bit more time to investigate why this is so difficult, and to learn a few things about ALSA.
More @ Deciphering Glyph
10. Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters. This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be. I've been a bit reluctant to answer those questions, because the list is different for everyone. I thought I'd do better to start the new year with some ideas about how to think about this for yourself.
More @ OreillyRadar
I've been trying to get a USB headset to work gracefully with a variety of applications on Linux for quite some time. Recently I had a bit more time to investigate why this is so difficult, and to learn a few things about ALSA.
More @ Deciphering Glyph
10. Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters. This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be. I've been a bit reluctant to answer those questions, because the list is different for everyone. I thought I'd do better to start the new year with some ideas about how to think about this for yourself.
More @ OreillyRadar
1 comments:
Hey guys, thefaviconshomepage.com already hosts the brand new Google favicon!
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