Informatics

Screenshot of the new Google Plus look at 1920x1080 resolution

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Google announced it has exceeded one hundred and seventy million users registered to Google+ but particularly the company launched the new look of its social network.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, announced with a post on his own social network he bought Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing application. The price is a billion dollars, partly in cash and partly in stock.

Google's Project Glass augmented reality glasses (photo courtesy of Google. Unauthorized use is not permitted)

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Yesterday, Google announced Project Glass, which has the purpose of creating glasses that can provide an augmented reality. These glasses, at least in the prototype shown by Google, are composed of a frame similar to the one of ordinary glasses with a display near the right eye. An operating system sends real-time various information to the users depending on what they’re doing.

Infographics showing how the DOME collaboration will work (Image courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation. Unauthorized use is not permitted)

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IBM and ASTRON (ASTRonomisch Onderzoek in Nederland, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) announced an agreement for a collaboration that will lead to the construction of a new supercomputer for the collection of data from the SKA (Square Kilometre Array), the consortium that aims to build a radio telescope consisting of the largest array of the world. ASTRON allocated an initial sum of 32.9 million Euros for a five years collaboration.

The Hubble's Hidden Treasures competition logo (Image NASA & ESA)

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Many astronomers have worked on the images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, yet only a fraction has received special attention and who knows how many others are very interesting but are virtually unknown. For this reason, two competitions were organized to involve the public in a kind of treasure hunt to search for the most beautiful space images.