Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it. That's why today, at the Computer History Museum , we're excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search...
Yes We Should by digby From a personal perspective, this would be a godsend : Senate Democrats are discussing the idea of expanding Medicare by lowering the age at which the elderly could enter the government-run insurance program, Democratic sources on the Hill tell the Huffington Post. The proposal would lower the age of eligibility for Medicare from 65 to 55, though an age limit of 60 has also...
Update 3: Jeremy Paul Olsen h/t PatR2012 on Twitter. BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (FOX 9) - A man was arrested for throwing tomatoes at Sarah Palin during her book signing on Monday at the Mall of America. Jeremy Olson, 33, allegedly threw...
It was rumored long ago and now it's confirmed: The Boxee Box . Made by D-Link and bringing HDMI-support, an SD card slot, two USB 2.0 ports, WiFi, and ethernet. It should definitely be a nice companion to the Boxee software . We don't have many details about the insides of the device, but given that Boxee is heavily optimized for NVIDIA's Ion chips and offers 1080p, we're speculating that the the...
RadarOnline.com reports that Tiger Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, has moved out of their residence. According to the article, she has moved to a house near Woods' Windermere, Fla. home. Since Woods' car accident, numerous women have been linked to the golfer. Recent claims include a Florida woman who says Woods is " very well endowed " and a porn star whose titles include Diary of a Horny Housewife...
What if you could decide where to shop, eat or hang out, with a little help from local Google users? It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier we've launched a new effort to send window decals to over 100,000 local businesses in the U.S. that have been the most sought out and researched on Google.com and Google Maps. We're calling these businesses the " Favorite Places on...
Chris Hedges has a provocative new piece up over at Truthdig entitled "Liberals are Useless" . In it he argues that, well, liberals are useless: They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right...
Did you know that every game of Tetris is controlled by a malevolent Tetris god? I didn't. I thought it was controlled by some oldschool Ruskie programming. But what do I know? Besides where you live. And don't even think I won't bat your mailbox -- your parents are gonna be piiiiiiiiissed! The Tetris God [collegehumor] Thanks to Julian and Nathan, who have both tried jamming S-tetrads up the Tetris...
Posted by Brian Axe, Product Manager (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) I used to take a lot of photos with the best intentions of sharing them with friends and family. But most of the time they just sat on my camera's memory card, never quite making it to my computer, let alone to my friends and family. Three weeks ago we made extra storage more affordable for Picasa Web Albums and Gmail,...
Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Recently he was appointed by the Obama administration to run the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the US Department of Education. In 2007 Kevin Jennings was paid $273,573.96 as the executive director of GLSEN. In 2000 [...]
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Outside.in is a hyper-local news aggregator and when they say hyper-local they mean it - the site captures news, blog posts and other resources right down to the neighborhood level. The company announced tonight that it's raised a nice round of funding, $7 million from CNN, the super-hip VC at Union Square Ventures , real-time savvy VC shop Betaworks and several other organizations. Both of the aforementioned...
Poor AT&T, it must be tired of being tied to the whipping post and constantly flogged in the media for its abysmal network performance. To address its network woes, AT&T has released a new iPhone application called Mark the Spot…
By Tim Sahd In another sign that the environment has tilted away from Dems, a new poll out today shows Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) tied with ex-state Sen. Joe Heck (R) in the Las Vegas suburbs. The Las Vegas Review-Journal survey, conducted 11/30-12/2, tested Titus, Heck and real estate developer Rob Lauer (R). The Mason-Dixon survey polled 300 registered voters for a margin of error of +/- 6%. General...
