Roger Penrose’s Silicon Valley crash pad When Sir Roger Penrose visited Silicon Valley this spring, he stopped off at Google, NASA, and the Rainbow Mansion. But he spent most of his time at Rainbow, Silicon Valley’s answer to the 17th-century French salon.…
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Across the board, all major browser developers are currently working very hard to speed up their software’s performance. While a lot of the focus has currently shifted to hardware acceleration , there are still some speed gains to be made by optimizing most browsers’ JavaScript engines
Synergies Ahoy! Former Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has opted for the hard life of Silicon Valley startup rather than running another Fortune 500 mega corp into the ground.…
This post was made possible thanks to a phenomenon I call “twitterdipity.” Twitterdipity is the experience of wading in Twitter’s shallow, fast-moving data stream and suddenly – and surprisingly – mining treasure from a tweet.
This post was made possible thanks to a phenomenon I call “twitterdipity.” Twitterdipity is the experience of wading in Twitter’s shallow, fast-moving data stream and suddenly – and surprisingly – mining treasure from a tweet. It’s casually catching the eye of good fortune in a speed-of-light culture. It’s when you score a free ticket to an exclusive event or click a game-changing link at just the right time
Automatic translation tools like Google Translate allow you to get a very rough understanding of a text in a foreign language. For the most part, though, these translations are anything but perfect and can’t capture the nuances and idioms that professional translators can. Linguee , a Germany-based startup, is a contextual translation search engine that walks the middle ground between machine translation and online dictionary (with some crowdsourcing mixed in for good measure).
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