Tag: google
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Amiga Emulator Created in Chrome
Via TheRegister “The emulator code is based on the Open Source Universal Amiga Emulator which is about 400k lines of C code,” Stefansen says. He didn’t cook up the code out of altruism: Google offers “Native Client”,billed as “a sandbox for running compiled C and C++ code in the browser efficiently and securely.” Porting the…
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Visit The Polar Bear Capital of The World
Because your next video game might feature exactly this …. Take a Google Street View trek to Churchill, Canada. This quiet town, set on the shores of western Hudson Bay, is a place where polar bears and humans coexist.
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Niantic’s Ingress Game is Poised to Grow After Google
Niantic, a maker of games people play by trekking around their neighborhoods and cities, is bringing in two new investors, the Pokémon Company and Nintendo, after completing its spinoff from Google. Niantic, based in San Francisco, said it raised $20 million from Pokémon, Nintendo and Google, and could receive an additional $10 million if it…
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The Latest Fashion, Trending on Google
Read the full article on the NYTimes for all the Fashion details, excerpt below, and look at the actual Google charts by clicking on the inaugural report. Surging “tulle skirt” searches spread from Utah in 2013. Normcore? So last year. String bikinis? Most definitely over. Even interest in skinny jeans may be waning, if…
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Google Can Now Tell You’re Not a Robot With Just One Click
This is on the topic I discussed today in some of my classes, the movie “The Imitation Game” and the resulting end-of-movie scene [SPOILER ALERT] where Benedict Cumberbatch playing Alan Turing {great link} asks if he is a person or a machine. Getty Images When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947,…