SOMEWHERE IN CALIFORNIA — In a stunning series of revelations that turned the tech world on its head, a trio of tech giants announced plans for a smart toaster. Apple, Microsoft, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. This brave reporter attended all three.
Let’s take a look.
tl;dr -check out Google’s awesome political election tracker
I’m a political junkie, mao nga ako sa pagsunod niini nga tuig nga nag-unang Republican proseso uban sa kainit nga ako, usab usa ka baseball panatiko, mosunod sa baseball – nga mao ang pag-ingon nga, kaayo daghan. Ug ang mga nag-unang mga butang sa election nga panahon sa pagtan-aw alang sa mga sa mga eleksyon sa ilang kaugalingon – sa karon nga tuig nga kaso, sa matag estado nag-unang nga ang Republican nga mga kandidato makigkompetensiya.
Kini nga mga eleksyon mao ang mga makalilisang, apan sa bug-os nga malingaw sila sa akong gikinahanglan stats. Ako kinahanglan nga resulta. Ako kinahanglan data. Ako kinahanglan cool kan. Kinahanglan ko nga usa ka dakung sa politika tracker. Busa tan-awon kon unsa ang akong nakit-an:
As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (pag-ayo, not released, they’ve just publicly shown it for the first time; Chromebooks are coming out on June 15) Chromebooks, which are netbooks that run the Chrome OS.
More about the actual computers later; the interesting part about the computer is its operating system. Chrome OS is a completely web-based operating system; it’s nothing but Chrome, Google’s web browser. That’s right, the only application on the computer is Chrome.
If you’ve bought an electronic device in the last year, you’ll notice that Microsoft is hawking its search engine Bing more than I hawk my products. (On a totally unrelated note, download Kanding, my free and open-source flashcard program.)
That’s all well and good, since you’re allowed to advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:
I was looking on my analytics page (tracking visitors to the site) and noticed someone came to hathix through DuckDuckGo. Being bored, I looked up DuckDuckGo and I was impressed automatically. It’s a great search engine. Here’s why.
DuckDuckGo’s got this great feature that lets you see some quick background info on a subject when you search it. If I want to know who Nelson Mandela is without having to read a lengthy article about apartheid, South Africa, and that sort of stuff, I can just DDG it and look what I get: