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Coming soon: Google’s Augmented Reality glasses

News: Virtual/Augmented Reality    April 5, 2012
Slick, stylish and they might even be useful: Google glasses….Credit: Google Google calls it Project Glass. You may call it futuristic, fantastic or just let’s wait and see. These highly sophisticated computerized specs are intended to receive and process information from the Web and display it to one eye. It’s called augmented reality. For example, [...]
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Impact Watch: China out of the Internet?

Impact: Online Information    January 21, 2010
If China removes itself from the Internet, what impact would that have? I don’t mean that China won’t have the Internet, or even that it will cut itself off entirely from international connections, but what if, for all practical purposes China operates on a different, separate Internet? What would removing the world’s largest Internet using [...]
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Update: Google’s use of a ‘quantum computer’

News: Computer Power    December 17, 2009
Chris Lee over at Ars-Technica has some background observations on the story about Google’s use of the D-Wave system for analyzing images. Google doesn’t give a damn if it is a quantum computer or not, just that it works, and works better than existing systems. [Source: ArsTechnica]
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