Google can now take you back in time. The search giant unveiled a new project Thursday called Timelapse that visualizes how different parts of the earth have changed during the past 28 years. You can watch the trends in deforestation in the Amazon from year to year, or see just how much the city of Las Vegas has grown in a little more than two decades. NASA and the U.S. Geological Society have bee
Facebook is considering buying GPS company Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, Israeli daily newspaper Calcalist reports. The talks are in an advanced stage, Calcalist claims. The two companies started talking started six months ago, due diligence is underway and a term sheet was signed. Waze, whose turn-by-turn navigation app uses crowdsourcing to gather real-time conditions on the road, has had
OUYA Closes $15 Million In Funding Led By Kleiner Perkins, Boasts 12,000 Game Developer Sign-Ups Today, gaming console and software company OUYA announced that they have closed a $15 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, and with participation from the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners. This marks one of the largest institutional investments to go to a project that had its
Line Reports Q1 2013 Earnings Of $58.9M: Half From Game In-App Purchases, 30% From Stickers, 80% From Japan Line, a free-at-the-point-of-use messaging app made by Line Corporation (formerly operated by NHN Japan Corp) which recently passed 150 million worldwide users, has announced earnings for Q1 2013 — revealing for the first time how much of its revenue comes from game in-app purchases and how
Productivity is a tricky thing to track, but you probably have a good idea of when you get your best work done. Unfortunately, it's not always at the most convenient times, is it? In this comic, Angela Liao of 20px shows us the difference between when we expect to be productive and when we're actually productive -- all in nifty graph form. What is it about 1 a.m. that makes the muses appear?
Although it is still seen by many as a place for networking with colleagues and/or posting a digital curriculum vitae, LinkedIn has been behaving a lot more like a media entity recently — and a revamp of its LinkedIn Today offering that launched on Wednesday is one more step in that evolution. The site now offers “channels” or categories of news, much like a magazine would, and users can follow or
Google Translate For Android Can Now Interpret 16 Additional Languages By Camera, Adds Phrasebook Support One of the coolest features of the Google Translate for Android app is that you can just point your camera at a text, tap the word you want to translate and get a translation back. Starting today, this feature supports 16 additional languages. Those are Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Fi
5 facts about the Asian smartphone market Western developers must know A number of Western developers I advise are interested in launching their apps in what they call “the Asian smartphone market.” The goal is quite understandable, given that geographic area’s high growth rate in recent years. But I sometimes fear that term is too broad and can lead to confusion. There are many large countries wi
The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn’t enough. On Wednesday, it said it would solicit input on an open source top-of-rack switch. The project, in a presentation by Frank Frankovsy at Interop, said it was taking a slightly different tack with its design, deciding to get input from ot
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