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Use Google+ as an affordable home security system. by Tech Crunch: Google+ is bringing people together. The video chat service is just so easy to set up with a click-and-go sort of system. It’s so easy that, as a Lifehacker user pointed out, the Hangouts are perfect for an impromptu video surveillance system. You will need two … Read more
MARTIAN LOLS!
Google+ versus Facebook (image) by xkcd: LOLOLOL Anything is better than Facebook. Well, except Myspace, anything is better than Myspace LOLOL Bonus LOLS:
News (Stay Informed).
Google vows to fight antipiracy bill– even if passed. by CNET: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said today in London that the company is prepared to go on fighting the bill should it become law, according to published reports, Schmidt said: “If there is a law that requires DNS [domain name systems, the protocol that allows users … Read more
Technology
Google lobbies in Nevada to legalize driverless cars. by Physorg: Google has hired lobbyist David Goldwater to represent the company in its push to legalize the running of autonomous vehicles on Nevada roads; this comes less than a year after announcing that it had been running live tests of its self-driving vehicles on California roads. … Read more
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Google develops speak2tweet for internetless Egyptians. by Google: Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice … Read more
go-green
2010, a review of the go-green movement by GOOD.is: It was a record year for solar power, and the electric car began its comeback but, thanks to our increasingly desperate need for fossil fuels, 2010 also saw the largest accidental marine oil spill in history. With the economy hemorrhaging jobs, President Obama kicked off 2010 … Read more
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Google employee helps teen with legal fees (thanks to reddit). by L.A Weekly: L.A. Weekly first exposed the case in “Jeremy Marks ‘Attempted Lynching’ Case” (Dec. 9), about a teen waiting for a ride after school who used his cell phone to videotape Los Angeles School Police Department officer Erin Robles hitting a 15-year-old student. … Read more
Human Technology
Rivals Say Google Plays Favorites by Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. increasingly is promoting some of its own content over that of rival websites when users perform an online search, prompting competing sites to cry foul. The Internet giant is displaying links to its own services—such as local-business information or its Google Health service—above the … Read more
WIN!
Google’s Instant: 2010 in Review Wow, that was really impressive. It’s okay if you got emotional because that’s what 2010 was in a nutshell. Win! for Google
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Google search autocomplete organized in map. by Gizmodo: What happens if you let the notoriously fickle (and sometimes downright dirty) Google search autocomplete feature take over U.S. geography? A completely new State of the Union that’s heavy on universities, history and other peculiarities, that’s what. Some of the new states are rather obvious, but still … Read more
