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Google self-driving car licensed to hit streets in US
Google's self-driving robot car has passed its driver's licence test in Nevada, the first licence of its kind in the US. Obtaining Nevada's self-driving car licence clears the way for Google to test its technology on public roads in the state.
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IT industry celebrates International Women's Day
International Women's Day has prompted a number of organisations to examine the uneven gender distribution in the IT industry, and examine ways in which technology can improve the lives of women at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
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Google social search expanded with Don't Be Evil tool
Software engineers from major social networking companies have apparently grown tired of Google's relentless drive to push its own Google+ social network at the expense of other sites.
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Google Plus has more than 90 million users, claims Larry Page
Say this for Google+: It no longer has fewer total users than MySpace.
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Google Plus opens pages for businesses
Google has opened Google+ social network for business, initially for a select few companies only.
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China's latest supercomputer uses homegrown Shenwei 1600 chips
China has built its first supercomputer based entirely on homegrown microprocessors, a major step in breaking the country's reliance on Western technology for high-performance computing.
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Google advanced search tweaks annoy Boolean + fans
Google has quietly removed the Boolean + operator from its search options and replaced it with expanded quotation mark functionality. For those who don't use Boolean search operators, this isn't a big deal, but for us search ninjas it's a pretty big inconvenience.
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Phones stolen in London riots worthless, claim networks
The smartphone has become an ironic symbol of the London riots few manufacturers will want to dwell upon.
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Twitter carries 350 billion posts, adds 600,000 members every day
Twitter launched its microblogging service five years ago today and the company is marking the occasion by doling out some impressive usage stats.
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Google boosts HTTPS security in response to hacks
A number of hack attacks recently have made many question the fundamental security of the Internet - hack attacks that have brought into question a system that until now was considered to be bullet-proof. However, with appropriate good timing, two new security schemes are coming to the rescue.
