Just days after Mark Shuttleworth asked the Linux desktop community make pretty things, Make Tech Easier has come along and created a UI for Ubuntu that looks just like Mac OSX.
It's pretty astounding how quickly this was able to be done. Now if only someone could port all the necessary apps.
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Web giant is spending $120 million to beef up its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to filings with the city reviewed by the San Jose Mercury News.
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The dreary details differ, but the same theme informs--we're good, they're bad, and dear judge: would you please kneecap these guys for us?
News Blogs
To LTE or not to LTE? Verizon mocks Verizon's ad that make no sense whatsoever to real, forlorn human beings.
Technically Incorrect
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In response to a wave of criticism, the popular social news site announced it would ban sections that focus on the sexualization of children.
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Tor's "obfsproxy" technology would make encrypted data look innocuous and let it dodge government censors. That could help citizens in Iran reach blocked sites as antigovernment protests reportedly loom.
Politics and Law
MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, including Asteroids.
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A pool table on a cruise ship is gyroscopically controlled so that it moves with the waves and the balls don't slide at all.
Technically Incorrect
In a two-seater electric car powered only by the sun, a team of German students plan to circumnavigate the world.
The Car Tech blog
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Nanotech - The Circuits Blog
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In "Software, Interrupted," Dave Rosenberg discusses disruption in the software market, as well as the products and services that keep business technology norms in perpetual flux.
With more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience spanning from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs, he is CEO and founder of Nodeable, co-founder of MuleSoft, and serves as managing director for Hardy Way. He also happens to be a U.S. patent holder and a workaholic. Technology is his best friend and mortal enemy.
