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Google announced today that it has stopped censuring search services; search, news, and Images, in China. Google is redirecting China traffic to Hong Kong. At Google.com.hk users can access uncensored versions. It is possible that Chinese government can block these for mainland China anytime. Google has created a site to monitor the site available in [...]
xkcd had an interesting comic strip using Google search results. In real life, Google’s search results on the first page gives an estimated number of results for a search query. To get the real number of hits one has to manually click through the list of result pages. It looks like, Google (and other search [...]
Google introduced a new feature, an intelligent rescheduler, to Google Calender Labs. Most of us would have experienced the frustration of scheduling/rescheduling an event. Often we exchange dozen emails and still end up with no convenient time for everyone. Given the constraints, finding the right schedule is a classic computer science problem around for awhile. [...]
Earlier this morning on March 19, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research set a new speed record by circulating two 3.5 trillion electron volts (3.5TeV) proton beams successfully circulated in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). LHC widely dubbed as the big bang machine or atom smasher machine is the world’s largest particle accelerator located [...]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on March 18 that NIH is going to create a public database of available genetic tests. Advances in technology since the last decade has enabled to perform a number genetic tests, any test involving an analysis of human genes/proteins/DNA/RNA/chromosomes to detect a disease/condition. Currently, there are more 1,600 [...]
After a long silence, the Taiwan based phone maker HTC issued a press release responding to Apple’s lawsuit against HTC. In early March, Apple filed a lawsuit on HTC for violating its patents on iPhone’s user interface and hardwares. Responding to Apple’s lawsuit, HTC disagreed with Apple’s claims and said HTC will fight against the [...]
New York Times reports that Google is said to be working on Google TV. The news/rumor per say is not surprising. Recently, there were reports of Google working with Dish TV on delivering advertisements. Also, Google got into broadcasting live IPL cricket matches across the world last week . It was kind of expected [...]
