Google has put online a web application for its Chrome browser called “100,000 Stars” that allows you to explore an area of the Milky Way which includes one hundred thousand stars. This is an interactive application with various features that allow to zoom in and out to go from the Sun to the entire “neighborhood” with all the possible intermediate steps.
Now something has changed in the secrecy kept by Google and now the company have created a section of its web site titled “Where the Internet Lives” where you can find a gallery of photographs taken by Connie Zhou of its various data centers. Those photos show the servers, the systems used for their cooling and also some of the people who work for this technology giant.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social network has reached one billion users. About 600 million of those users connect through mobile devices. This milestone was actually reached on September 14 but Zuckerberg has revealed it only yesterday in an interview with “The Today Show” and the magazine Bloomberg Businessweek.
