If you’re a regular user of the Google Reader RSS tool, you may have noticed that the most recent revamp hasn’t just attracted the usual complaints when any user interface is changed but, for some people, has caused serious performance problems. In my case I found that at one point (when I was scrolling through […]
I repeatedly hit “refresh”… what about you guys? :) [Via CB]
A man who created a bogus stock price tracker app for the iPhone that was in fact malware has been thrown out of Apple’s developer program. That would seem uncontroversial until you discover the app was designed to highlight a security flaw rather than cause damage or steal data. Charlie Miller was told his right […]
Not only is Google not dominant in the search market, but it doesn’t hold market power. Or at least that’s what chairman Eric Schmidt now claims. The freshly-published comments come in the wake of Schmidt’s appearance before the Senate’s Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee in September. Back then he agreed that when it […]
I saw the “barrel roll” thing yesterday, and thought it was pretty sweet. It also made me feel a little sick. Haven’t tried it yet? Just go to Google and type in “Do a Barrel Roll” in the search field. Here are some more nifty and geeky Easter eggs from Google. [Via C-Net]
[via IndyMogul]
Science funding is a little hard to come by in the US as of late. The good news is that in this Age of the Internet, the opportunity to help researchers get the support they need is just a click away. The SciFund Challenge is best described as Kickstarter for scientists: research teams post their […]
Did you know that the Internet (apparently) weighs about 50 grams? I didn’t! [vsauce]
Tomorrow is Wednesday and that means new comic book day! I recently had a friend tell me he is giving up smoking, and using all this cigarette money on comics. I told him he’d still need to come up with more money for all the titles he likes to read. Luckily this will be a […]
The folks at Google have recently released this brilliant ad showing what a store’s online checkout process might look like in real life to promote their kick ass analytics service. Check it out! [Youtube]