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Monday, 22 April 2013

A new kind of summer job: open source coding with Google Summer of Code

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source team

Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog

(cross-posted from the Official Google blog)

If you?re a university student with CS chops looking to earn real-world experience this summer, consider writing code for a cool open

Researchers at McGill University say the video game distributes information between the eyes in a way that trains them to work together and could ultimately help treat lazy eye.

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Almost 10 years have passed since a new Madagascar dinosaur species was introduced to the world. Please welcome the Dahalokely tokana to the archeological history books. (Credit: Andrew Farke and Joseph Sertich) Don't cry for Tyrannosaurus rex and its teensy-weensy arms. It was in good company in the dinosaur kingdom with a recently discovered new species found in Madagascar.

NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites WASHINGTON -- Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The trio of "PhoneSats" is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., and Johnson Space Center in Houston as Federal Green Challenge National Award winner

Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it's all good news. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less).

Although only Leap Motion developers will be able to play with the Google Earth integration right now, the Leap launches next month. Google Earth has been around for years, but thanks to a new integration with Leap Motion, you can now soar through the digital representation of our planet like never before.

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Tricky things, birds. Even when you've got yourself sorted out with boxes and feeders to entice them into your garden, it can be very difficult to get a decent photograph - they don't stay still for long, especially if they see you coming (and it is amazing at just how adept birds are at spotting the slightest movement - the sort of movement you might make to operate the zoom lens on your camera, for example), and many feeding birds will only visit the table for a few seconds at a time, even if you're well hidden.

Google announces $600 million expansion for North Carolina data center

Google announced Friday a $600 million expansion of its Lenoir data center, bringing the company's total investment in North Carolina to $1.2 billion. The announcement came little more than six years

A Michigan State University criminologist dug into the seamy underbelly of online credit card theft and uncovered a surprisingly sophisticated network of crooks that is unique in the cybercrime domain. The thieves, Thomas Holt found, run an online marketplace for stolen credit data similar to eBay or Amazon where reputations drive sales.

To support the growing emphasis on real-time operations, MySQL is releasing a new MySQL Applier for Hadoop to enable the replication of events from MySQL to Hadoop / Hive / HDFS (Hadoop Distributed F

This is a guest post from Dharshan Rangegowda, founder of Scalegrid, creators of MongoDirector. This originally appeared on the MongoDirector blog. Are you hosting your production MongoDB instances on Amazon AWS? At MongoDirector.comwe manage hundreds of production MongoDB instances on AWS and have learnt a few things along the way.

As we race towards a release of the new Opera for Android, we are also continuing to work hard on our existing products. Today we released Opera Mini 7.5.2 for Android. In addition to the security

To recover a dropped or corrupt table with Percona Data Recovery Tool for InnoDB you need two things: media with records(ib

Oxford Economics: A Success Case

The specific challenge of this project was to provide a long-overdue modern user experience for the company?s website which consisted of two major areas dealing with marketing and providing custome

Workflow Module

Looking forward to the release of the Orchard Workflow Module, which will probably be released around the same time as Orchard 1.7. The Workflow Module will probably replace the <a href="h

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