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Google Voice Search Adds Google Now Features 23 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
Here's a nifty trick. I'm going on vacation this month. All I have to do to check on my flight status is ask Google by voice. This is a feature that Google Now has had for a while. My phone has all so...
Pay Per Gaze? 20 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
Instead of the pay-per-click model, Google Glass may allow the company to charge per gaze, according to the Telegraph. The picture used to illustrate that piece may have just put me off the idea of ge...
Robot Car Competition 19 Aug 2013 | 11:51 pm
A recent NPR segment introduced some competition to Google's self-driving cars. The technology is being developed at Carnegie-Mellon. This sort of report is thrilling to hear. When I spoke to car mak...
Google Goes Black and the Internet Nearly Dies 19 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
Ok, not really, but apparently four minutes of Google blackout on a Friday evening mean a 40% drop in Internet traffic. That's just mind-boggling. That's a lot of traffic. Now everyone recovered afte...
Google Images Are Not Copyright Free 18 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
I recently read this amusing story about an evangelist writing a self-published book on his interpretation of Christian family discipline. He inadvertently used a picture from the TV series Modern Fam...
Find the Tardis 16 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Are you a Doctor Who fan? The Web has been going a bit crazy with this new Google Maps Easter egg. You can explore inside the Tardis. I've had a few people ask how you get there, so here are the instr...
Back to Chromecast 16 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
I was just thinking the other day that the Chromecast probably makes a fantastic last minute dorm room gift. Provided your student has a Netflix account and a TV with an HDMI port. Back in my day, mos...
Google Launches Two Killer Devices 25 Jul 2013 | 04:07 am
Google came out swinging with two hardware launches. The most exciting is the $35 Chromecast device, which simply plugs into the HDMI port on your TV and streams content from your computer or smartpho...
Google Helps You Explore the Eiffel Tower 19 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
Google introduced a new installment as part of the Google Cultural Institute. The Eiffel Tower. Right now the virtual exhibit contains mostly historical data, but Google promised we'd get to see some ...
Finding Correlations 19 Jul 2013 | 09:57 pm
I blame this article on everything Almanzo Wilder ate for getting me stuck on the idea of vinegar pies, but I've gone searching for more vinegar pie facts. As it turns out, there's a strong correlatio...
