The Guardian goes
all Twitter , ditching the printed
version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140
characters.”
Another early project for Cadie: making a 3D
version of Google Chrome, since “81% of
households had red/blue 3D glasses lying around.”
There’s no gentle way of putting this, but YouTube just flails with upside down video
viewing.
Gmail now has AutoPilot.
Google
Brain Search uses CADIE technology
to index your brain.
Google Books is in on it too. See this
monograph signed by the CADIE
team for example.
Google Australia introduces the gBall, which will change
Australian rules football as we know it.
There is also a featured
YouTube video
of a panda by the user ‘cadiesingularity’ with a profile stating “Cadie
- the world’s first Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence
Entity”.
When browsing Street View in Google Maps, a panda is
shown in
the bottom right map instead of the yellow person usually shown.
CADIE even has its own blog on Blogger.
There is also a “CADIE’s
recommended places for humans”
link in Google Maps, which leads to the “Panda Mapplet” and includes
several marked locations with “CADIE’s” commentary. Under Redmond WA a
link is listed which will rick roll the viewer.
Meanwhile, Identi.ca
has acquired Twitter.
A Twitter executive was quoted afterwards saying: “I was worried we
were going to have to make a business out of that whole Twitter thing!
I’m really glad it’s someone else’s problem now.”
Google is apparently also building
a new $100 laptop
together with Alienware (Dell). It will have a built-in brain wave
reading chip, with sensors that need to be applied onto the user’s
skull.
Scientists at CERN have found the cell that basically
triggered the Big Bang.
The Pirate Bay sells
out to Warner Bros.
There’s a new social network for your nose, a
friendspace for
your
fragrance, a place to share your opinions on perfumes and vote for your
favorite smells. They call it smellr and it’s online now.
Grandson of Kenyan Mau-Mau, now
an Indonesian Muslim elected U.S. President.
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