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Google’s birthday tribute to electronic music pioneer Robert Moog isn’t just a cool looking doodle, its also a fully functional Moog synthesizer.




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Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer. By day, Bueno is a Facebook engineer. He helps hone software on the servers underpinning the world’s largest social network. But he moonlights as a children’s author. His first book is called Lauren Ipsum, and it’s a fairy tale that seeks to introduce children — as young as five or as old as 12 — to the concepts of computer science.




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Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.




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If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone’s voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn’t welcome on Big Blue’s networks.




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Google’s annual Summer of Code project, an effort to get college students writing open source software during their summer vacations, is underway.




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It’s ridiculously easy to use. Simply charge the case-like projector with the USB cable provided, slide your iPhone 4 or 4S into the dock connector and it’s ready to go. The built-in 2100mAh battery means you won’t drain your phone playing video and it even serves as a back-up battery should your phone run low.




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In the wake of the late 2009 attack on Google’s internal systems that saw Chinese hackers pilfer proprietary software code, the rumor was that the search giant had resolved to eliminate the use of Microsoft Windows on employee machines. But two years on, Google CIO Ben Fried tells Wired that Google never banned the use of Windows and that the company continues to offer Windows as one of the options available to new employees.




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Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.




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This fall, Google is expected to release not one, but five Android 5.0 flagship phones, each running a pure, unadulterated version of the new OS. Who wins — and who loses — if this bold shift in policy comes to pass?




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Facebook fever is everywhere. If you need to escape, here are seven social networking apps you can use to fill the void.




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Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.




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Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.




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The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon’s massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2.




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The ITC decided on Friday that Motorola’s phones and tablets should be banned from sale in 60 days due to a violation of a Microsoft patent. President Obama could possibly overturn the sale ban.




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