You know that photo you found after a quick Google Images search this morning? It’s all because of Jennifer Lopez. In a blog post for Project Syndicate, Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said that Google Images was created because of J.Lo and the …
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Now that’s the power of fashion! It’s no secret that Jennifer Lopez turned heads at the 2000 Grammy Awards in her plunging, sheer, palm tree-printed Versace gown. But did you know that her now-iconic look was also the inspiration for the creation of …
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TV, Google, and bendy straws: Bay Area inventions and discoveries
SFGate (blog) Since the Gold Rush days, when people like Levi Strauss set up shop in San Francisco, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of innovation. With UC Berkeley on one side and Stanford University and Silicon Valley on the other, many of the inventions and … |
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Google and SpaceX revive the search for impractical inventions
The Verge The 1960s were a time of experimentation. Whether you're talking lifestyles or hairstyles, California was at the leading edge of an adventurous spirit that embraced the unconventional and the new. One of the unappreciated projects of that era was the … |
Cade Metz / Wired:
If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet — The truth about Jeff Dean appeared on April Fool’s Day 2007. — Somewhere inside Google, a private website served up a list of facts about Dean, one of Google’s earliest employees and one of the main reasons the web giant handles …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared — Patent wars, Apple CEO Tim Cook once said, are “a pain in the ass.” Few more so than the one the company is waging against Google’s new Motorola Mobility division and the new argument the defendants are making around standards-essential patents (SEPs).