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Feature: Windows 8 on the desktop—an awkward hybrid
arstechnica.com
Windows 8's new user interface has proven nothing short of polarizing. The hybrid operating system pairs a new GUI concept, the touch-friendly Metro interface, to the traditional windows, icons, menus, and pointer concept that Windows users have depended on for decades. In so doing, it removes Windows mainstays such as...
Google Shaman Explains Mysteries Of ‘Compute Engine’
www.wired.com
The Google Compute Engine was only announced on Thursday. But at least one software developer has already added the logo to his latte. Image: Flickr/yukop Google started work on the Google Compute Engine over a year and a half ago, and it was all Peter Magnusson could do to keep...
Death to the download? Streaming accounts for 89% of digital music sales in Sweden.
thenextweb.com
If these latest numbers are anything to go by, then downloads could be consigned to the scrapheap alongside CDs, miniDiscs and other music media in the not-too-distant future. Citing figures released by GLF, the Swedish recording industry association, Music Ally reports that streaming represents 89% of all digital music sales...
Dan Shapiro’s latest project: What if you could write just one piece each year?
www.geekwire.com
“Dan Shapiro. Photo via Randy Stewart What would you say if you could only speak once a year? That’s the question that Seattle entrepreneur Dan Shapiro has been pondering. And it forms the basis of a new side project that the current Googler and former Ontela CEO kicked off this...
Mobile web access price caps in Europe 'set too high'
www.guardian.co.uk
Three, uSwitch and three trade bodies urge Ed Vaizey to use his vote at communications ministers' meet to make curbs go furtherCommunications minister Ed Vaizey is being urged to combat a change to European rules that means travellers will still be charged hundreds of pounds to browse the web from...
Windows 8 on the desktop—an awkward hybrid
arstechnica.com
Illustration by Aurich Lawson Windows 8's new user interface has proven nothing short of polarizing. The hybrid operating system pairs a new GUI concept, the touch-friendly Metro interface, to the traditional windows, icons, menus, and pointer concept that Windows users have depended on for decades. In so doing, it removes...
Dig your Ordovican great-Xth granddaddy/mommy
blogs.law.harvard.edu
Or let the paleontologists dig it for you. That’s what a team led by Yale researchers did last year in southeastern Morocco’s Lower and Upper Fezouata Formations. The result is covered by LiveScience in Oldest Soft-Bodied Marine Fossils Discovered . Specifically, “The animals represented by these newly discovered fossils,...
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