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You can already download anything from TV shows to magazines from Google Play, so it’s no surprise that newspaper subscriptions might come the future. Android Police tore down the upcoming Google Play version 4.4., and it strongly hints at a portal called Newsstand. It’s not exactly brand new — it …

First-person shooters have come a long way from simple shooting and jumping. And shooting. While conventional shooters are still popular, in recent years we’ve seen first-person shooter games with different kinds of shooting. There are games that let you shoot portals, a game that lets you shoot pictures and even a game that lets you shoot clones of yourself. Now we have Scale, a game where you shoot rays that enlarge or shrink objects.

Scale is a game for Windows, OS X and Linux. It’s currently being made by indie developer CubeHeart. The game puts you in an open world and has you manipulating the sizes of objects to solve puzzles and progress. As you’ll see in the video below you can even shrink an entire level. The basic constraint is that you have to “suck the size” out of one object before you can enlarge another.

Perhaps the only thing about Scale that’s crazier than its mechanic is its story. You play a “young physics savant” named Penny Prince, who invented the size-changing gun. Unfortunately she accidentally destroyed the East Coast, leading to the demise of 9,322,591 people (yep, CubeHeart specified that). Also someone took her cat. But with your help Penny may be able to redeem herself and find her cat.

Help CubeHeart enlarge its funding by pledging for Scale on Kickstarter. A pledge of at least $10 (USD) gets you a DRM-free copy of the game as a reward.

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Tom Price, the director of strategic initiatives at All Power Labs, demonstrates the company's PowerPallet, a machine that converts biomass into carbon-negative energy.

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BERKELEY, Calif. — In 2007, officials from this famously liberal city shut off the electricity to an artists space known as the Shipyard. That action, which forced the artists there to seek a new way to power their flamethrowers, is the origin story of a company that now produces what it says is the world’s only carbon-negative power source.

Located in one of the grittiest areas of town, where train tracks, garbage, and broken down cars are far more prevalent than the hippies Berkeley is famous for, All Power Labs has set up shop inside the Shipyard. Run by CEO Jim Mason — who owns the space — the 5-year-old startup now produces technology used to transform dense biomass like corn husks or wood chips into clean, sustainable, and cheap energy.

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This article was written on June 17, 2006 by CyberNet.

The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has a new idea of what advertising should be. Picture this: You’re driving in your car listening to the radio. You need a new pair of shoes and as you approach the shoes store, the radio reminds you of this and gives you instructions on how to get there. This is Schmidt’s idea of advertising via GPS location based personalized advertising brought to you by your car radio.

We are bombarded by advertisements that come in all forms every day. Some may not be ready for, or will find this an unwelcome form of advertising. Others may find this to be just the kind of advertising that is worth their time. If you happen to be out shopping and the radio lets you know of a sale going on up the road, it is at least relevant to you and your life. In this situation, everyone involved would benefit (the middle man, advertiser, and consumer).

Also worth noting, back in April, Mike at Techdirt talked about Xybernaut (a firm that eventually filed for bankruptcy) selling their patents that focused on location based advertising. These ideas have been in the workings for quite some time now. The whole idea of location based advertising is a hot topic lately; it seems that it will only be a matter of time before we see this implemented– whether your like it or not!

News Source: ZDNet

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This article was written on June 14, 2006 by CyberNet.

It all takes place in The Dalles, Oregon where Google has the largest computer in the world being made. The facilities are supposed to open later this year and both are the size of two football fields (toward the left side of the image). When you have a computer facility that large then you have to keep it cool, don’t you? Well, they realized what a task that would be to cool a supercomputer that is the size of a football field so they have a cooling tower that is 4 stories high on each building (on the right side of each building).

The town that they are building this in only has a population of 12,000 people. The addition of the Google facilities are creating a 40 percent increase in the real estate value and will employ 60-200 people.

I’m sure Google needs all of the computing power for all of the new services they have been releasing. Now I wonder what kind of bandwidth those facilities will have 🙂 .

News Source: New York Times

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