The Web giant’s recently launched browser is now officially ready for the public. Plus: How to make sure you get the new build.
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Archive for December 11th, 2008Aviation giant blames a machinists strike for missing its expected first flight and first delivery dates, which now aren’t planned until 2009 and 2010, respectively. source Tech news blog Aviation giant blames a machinists strike for missing its expected first flight and first delivery dates, which now aren’t planned until 2009 and 2010, respectively. source Tech news blog Accel Partners tells The New York Times that a fresh $480 million will go toward the creation of a late-stage venture fund. The money might be for Facebook. source Tech news blog We follow the economic downturn and its impact on the tech industry, from the industry giants to the scrappy start-ups. source Tech news blog
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Photos: The mouse (and even better ideas) that roared 40 years agoPosted by admin in Tech and GadgetsForty years ago this week, Doug Engelbert and fellow researchers at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) gave a demonstration in San Francisco that was a prescient vision of the future: it included a computer mouse, hypertext linking, real-time on-screen text editing, shared-screen teleconferencing, and other revolutionary ideas. A massive crowd filled Memorial Auditorium at Stanford University Tuesday to watch a video of the historic demo and hear original team members recount their groundbreaking work. source Tech news blog [ Not streaming? Update your Flash player. New videos added daily! See the next 20 new videos ] Yesterday, we heard that the upcoming Wii title from THQ, Deadly Creatures, was going to feature some hollywood heavyweights amongst its voice talent. We now have a promotional video featuring one of these actors, Dennis Hopper. Watch as a subdued Dennis gives a tiny bit of info on his character and a taste of his voice work in the game. Voice work, particularly when stars are involved, is a tricky thing. I get frustrated sometimes when film and TV actors are cast in these roles because there’s a host of dedicated voice actors who make their careers out of their ability to bend their voice to suit a wide variety of different characters. There is an art to conveying emotion without the assistance of your body and these people are trained in it. So, when they use a known name (one not known specifically for voice work, that is) I always feel like that person is only there to shill the game. Rarely do I find that I’ve been proven wrong. It could just be that I’m bitter that we’re not getting the Dennis Hopper I love, though. It’s not the Dennis Hopper who was obviously coked out of his mind during the shooting of Apocalypse Now. It isn’t the rebellious Hopper of Easy Rider. And it’s a far cry from the lunatic of Blue Velvet. This is grown-up, boring Hopper and it makes me sad.
For Black Friday week, Nintendo sold about 800,000 Wii consoles and about the same number of DS systems. That’s more than double the 350,000 sold this time last year. “I see no negative signs so far,” Iwata, 49, said in an interview yesterday in Kyoto, Japan, where Nintendo is based. “Until the end of this calendar year, sales will be in line with our expectations.” Weezer’s Pork and Beans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI Sony Vaio vs macbook air http://www.mackable.com/blog/a-laptop-thinner-than-macbook-air-10-years-ago/
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