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This article was written on August 06, 2008 by CyberNet.

The Olympics are just a few days away and this time more than ever, new media will be playing an important role in helping the World keep-up with all of the events. Google is one source, and Garett Rogers over at ZDNet points out how Google is making quite an effort to immerse themselves in it.

Here’s how to use Google to keep-up with the Olympics:

1. Google Search
   When you perform a search such as “diving olympics,” you will see the schedule for the event you searched for. In my example above, I found that on August 10th at 2:30 ET will be the Women’s Synchronised Diving.
   
   You can use Google to search for any of your favorite Summer sports like gymnastics, rowing, cycling, boxing, etc.
2. YouTube
   If you live outside of the U.S (and yes, you read that right), you will be able to turn to YouTube to view clips from the olympics. Viewers in 77 different countries will be able to watch the clips on demand for free. The reason those living in the united States and several other countries will not be able to take advantage of this is because of exclusive broadcasting agreements the IOC (International Olympic Committee) has made (e.g., NBC in the U.S.).
3. Logo
   Their logo isn’t a significant contribution to the olympic games and won’t help you keep up with the events but you can guess that Google will definitely be doing something special with their logo when the games start on Friday – 08/08/08.

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As you may have noticed from the pace of research over the past few years, graphene is promising to make a whole lot of things a whole lot better. Now, it seems, you can also add camera sensors to the list. A team of MIT researchers recently discovered that graphene can serve as a photodetector over a “very wide energy range,” and that it works particularly well in infrared light, where other types of detectors often come up short. That, the researchers say, could open to the door to everything from better nightvision systems to more advanced detectors for astronomical telescopes — not to mention more inexpensive camera sensors in general, since graphene is cheap to work with. What’s more, the researchers also suggest that those same light-detecting abilities could make graphene a good material for collecting solar energy, although they note that there’s still much more research needed to determine if it’s truly an efficient means of generating energy.

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Motorola and AT&T are at it again with their Android shenanigans, this time following up the Atrix 4G with something a tad more… Atrix-y. Indeed, we’re referring to the sequel of February’s smash hit, honorably called the Motorola Atrix 2, announced at this week’s CTIA Enterprise & Applications. We had the opportunity to get some brief time with it, and it’s a fair device worthy of the family name: the 4.3-inch device feels good in the hand, and closely resembles the Photon 4G, only without the cutout corners. The sequel swaps processors, trading the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU for a TI OMAP model with the same clock speed, and offers a full gigabyte of RAM to go along with it. Fortunately, the qHD 960 x 540 display looks gorgeous without its predecessor’s Pentile clothes. Also gone? The fingerprint sensor. Oh, and don’t be fooled by the missing “4G” moniker in the title; this little ditty packs a 21Mbps HSPA+ radio, up from 14Mbps in the first version. All in all, we like what we see here — we enjoyed the brief time we had with the sequel. It seems as though Motorola learned some important lessons from the original device, but we’ll reserve total judgement until our forthcoming review. Check out the full gallery and hands-on video (complete with bonus psychedelic carpet!) below.

Myriam Joire contributed to this post.

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In the months since the disasters hit up in the North of Japan a number of innovative movements have sprung up to try and offer assistance and relief to the hardest hit areas. We came across one such project this weekend, the “Ehon Project” (Picture Book Project), a mobile kids picture book library that is bringing smiles and relief to children who lost everything.

The project started in the few weeks after the tsunami hit on 3.11 by Chieko Suemori, an editor of children books, founder of Suemori Books. Originally it was set up to collect picture books from around Japan to be sent up to the evacuation shelters to be distributed to the many children who had lost their parents or family. As the movement grew and it received support from various Japanese companies, the decision was taken to build small mobile libraries which could be loaded up with books and tour the areas so kids instead of receiving the books as charity had chance to pick out the books they want as if in the library.

I chatted with the very cheerful and energetic Halhiko Suemori (pictured below), a coordinator of the project who told us how “many young children have been donating their old picture books and writing letters of support to the children who will receive the books in Iwate, “it is touching how much comfort it gives them, children are helping other children who lost everything.” The project has already collected over 50,000 books from all over Japan and is now raising funds for the Ehon Cars.

So far the organisation has managed to raise enough funds to buy and customize one of six mobile libraries it will send to the area. “Our idea is to custom-furnish lightweight vans as mini bookmobiles we will call “Ehon Cars” that can be driven by our volunteer staff and will be relatively inexpensive to maintain and fuel”. The cars and the volunteers aprons are also emblazoned with the Ehon Project logo which is a fantastically simplistic eye-catching design from Sotocoto, a popular Japanese web magazine focused on the environment.

The aim is to then donate the Ehon Cars to local communities in the area once the project is over,”when the vehicles are handed over, they will of course be packed full of picture books!”. For those wishing to donate you can visit the project website here with full instructions in English.

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AMD fans have endured a long wait for this, while being reduced to spectators as Intel spews out an ever-increasing horde of Sandy Bridge variants and builds up the hype around its next-gen Ivy Bridge architecture. But the new FX series of processors is finally here and will be available to buy in the next few days, with the top-end FX-8150 priced at $245 in exchange for eight cores, a 3.6GHz base clock speed and easy over-clocking to 4.8GHz using the packaged Overdrive software. Your AM3+ motherboard is crying out for the upgrade, but don’t succumb until you’ve clicked past the break — we’ve got details of the full range and pricing, our initial impressions and an eyes-on video that includes a detailed chat with the guys from AMD.

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