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The Online Ancient Genome Repository (OAGR) website home page

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The Online Ancient Genome Repository (OAGR) website is online. It’s an open access database created by the University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD). The website is designed to collect and provide open access to a collection of DNA data from skeletons of ancient humans but also of microbes found in their dental plaque. This will enable scientists and teachers around the world to use these data for research and educational purposes.

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Google, Mozilla and Apple have announced the WebAssembly project, a new standard to go beyond JavaScript and have faster web applications. Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, is also involved in the project. WebAssembly will be a language of the bytecode type, which is at an intermediate level between programming languages ​​and machine language. The idea is to make it the new standard for all browsers on all platforms.

Google web page about Brillo

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At Google I/O, as expected, there was the announcement of Project Brillo, the operating system for the Internet of Things. Google also announced Weave, a protocol that will serve as the standard language for the various devices to communicate with each other. This project is derived from Android but in a version stripped of various components to operate with minimum requirements while maintaining the support to essential services such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

The Collections section in Google+

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This week Google+ has launched a new section of its social network, Collections, that allow users to gather their posts about a topic or that they want to put together anyway. This allows users to organize their post according to their preferences but also others to follow only part of the certain user’s posts.