RHUAV: Tech giants unveil ntse ua lub ci qhob cij

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Kua, Microsoft, thiab Google yog unveiling txoj kev pab rau cov ntse toasters. Npaj txhij – qhov no yog qhov loj loj.

QHOV CHAW NYOB HAUV CALIFORNIA — Nyob hauv lub stunning series tshwm sim uas muab tech ntiaj teb rau hauv nws lub taub hau, ib trio ntawm tech giants tshaj tawm txoj kev pab rau ib lub ci qhob cij ntse. Kua, Microsoft, thiab Google tuav ob tog community launch lis xaus no rau hauv li tshiab. No reporter siab tawv kawm txhua yam peb.

Cia wb mus saib.

Ua raws li cov 2012 kev xaiv tsa rau hauv Google txoj xaiv tsa tracker

tl;Dr -check out Google’s awesome political election tracker

I’m a political junkie, so I’m following this year’s Republican primary process with the fervor with which I, also a baseball fanatic, follow baseballwhich is to say, very much. And the main things in election season to watch out for are the elections themselvesin this year’s case, each state’s primary in which the Republican candidates compete.

These elections are awesome, but to fully enjoy them I need stats. I need results. I need data. I need cool graphs. I need a great political tracker. So look what I found:

Google Politics Colorado Primary Result
Google Politics election tracker showing the results of the Colorado caucus (google.com/elections)

Chrome OS: cov Web site, tas mus li

Li koj yuav tau pom, tus hais mav hauv Google tau tso (zoo, tsis tso, lawv twb cia li qhov pom tias nws thawj zaug; Chromebooks yuav tuaj lub rau hli ntuj 15) Chromebooks, uas yog netbooks uas khiav qhov Chrome OS.

Chrome OS (ntaub kawm ntawv)

Ntxiv txog lub sij xyuas hauv computer tom qab; ib sab nthuav txog lub computer yog nws operating system. Chrome OS yog ib tshab plaws web-raws li lawv operating; yog tsis muaj dab tsi tab sis Chrome, Google lub web browser. Yog, cov ntawv siv lub computer xwb yog Chrome.

Bing: the little engine thatcouldn’t?

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 Cabra, 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:

  1. Microsoft signed a deal with Blackberry so that Bing would be the only search engine available on Blackberrys.
  2. My sister bought a new computer and was offered a free song download if she searched with Bing.

DuckDuckGothe best thing since Google

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.

Zero-click info

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: