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| Posted: 11 May 2010 05:32 AM PDT  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Yes, the Internet is rotting your brain Two years ago, Nicholas Carr, a technology writer, published an essay titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" in the Atlantic Monthly magazine. Despite being saddled with a grabby but not very accurate headline (the defendant was the Internet itself, not just its most popular search engine), the piece proved to be one of those rare texts that condense and articulate a fog of seemingly idiosyncratic worries into an urgently discussed issue in contemporary life. More @ Salon.com 2. The Google design, turned up a notch This week we introduced our latest update to search, and I wanted to share a bit of our thinking on the design team. In short, we tried to take all the things we strive for at Google and make them better: powerful technology, snappy results, simplicity and a fun and quirky personality. More @ Googleblog 3. 13 Open Source Hardware Companies Making $1 Million or More Selling products whose design anyone can access, edit, or use on their own is pretty crazy. It's also good business. At the annual hacker conference Foo Camp East this year, Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried from Adafruit Industries gave a rapid fire five minute presentation on thirteen companies with million dollar revenues from open source hardware (OSHW). More @ SingularityHub 4. Classic Canon AE-1 gets a digital upgrade 5. ModNation Racers review: hardcore, open-ended, beautiful Has a single game dominated a genre as easily, and for as long, as Mario Kart? It has been King Mario and a bunch of almost laughable pretenders to the throne for the longest time. Now Sony is stepping into the battle with ModNation Racers, and the good news is the company brought its A-game: this is a new standard for what can be done in kart racing. More @ ArsTechnica 6. Firefox 4 Vision: fast, powerful, and empowering Today, I presented an early product plan for Firefox 4 to the Mozilla community (live, over the web!) to share our vision for the next version of Firefox, and what projects are underway to realize it. Then I invited everyone to get involved by joining our engineering or product development efforts. More @ MozillaBlog 7. Facebook Board Member's Account Hacked Even Facebook board members are not immune to phishing attacks. On Saturday, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners became the latest victim when his account was used to send a spam message to more than 2,300 friends. More @ Mashable 8. Boeing Shows Off Futuristic Fighter Jet Designs 9. There's Something About Ubuntu That Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro these days seems to be a matter of relatively little dispute, and certainly, it's not hard to see why. The distro has a variety of features that make it particularly easy to use, especially for beginners. More @ LinuxInsider 10. 15 Firsts In Video Game History We are so far away, now, from the original computer games, it doesn't seem outrageous to claim that in a few years we might achieve complete virtual reality and, indeed, become a race unsure of what is real and what is unreal, as portrayed in films such as The Matrix. More @ Listverse  |
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