Saturday, May 23, 2009

Air Force Twitters on GPS Outage Reports: Calm Down, Civilians [GPS] . When the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report saying that worldwide GPS performance is likely to degrade in the next few years, lot of people, public and private, kinda flipped.... [Gizmodo]
7:55:18 AM

Google Chrome 2 Released With Much Faster Rendering, Full Screen [Browsers] . Chrome 2.0 isn't that different from Chrome 1.0, despite what its bold new version number might imply. It is, however, a healthy upgrade: rendering speed is up a full 25-35%, stability is improved,... [Gizmodo]
7:52:00 AM

Wolfram Alpha: A new slant on Web data. roundup The online "computational engine" supplies answers to factual, data-intensive questions but also does math in the process. Is it really a Google rival, or something different? [CNET News.com]
7:47:40 AM

Bad weather delays shuttle return. Nasa delays the return to Earth of space shuttle Atlantis until Saturday because of bad weather at the Florida landing site. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
7:44:43 AM