On 1 april rains, the traditional good and less good jokes. Google believe just like every other year in april 1 jokes with a 8bit-version of Google Maps and a self-propelled Nascar race car. Other companies try to.
Who is still a 8bit NES console has, according to Google now accessing Google Maps. The search giant has a 8bit version of its popular postcard service released on a cartridge. The cartridge features a dialup feature, and the software a typical 8bit version of Google Maps on the screen shows. Also, speech recognition is supported.
In addition, Google has added a large number of jokes for april fool’s day invented. So, Really Advanced Search now to answer bizarre queries, and is there for the Chrome browser, a multitask mode has been developed where the user can do more by two cursors simultaneously to operate. Google is also announcing an agreement with Nascar to have autonomous driving cars during races. The Next Web has the other Google jokes put on a list.
The Dutch TomTom reports that a study in Project Gaga is shown that the navigation voice of Darth vader, the subjective well-being of babies by 68 percent know to increase. From the research, that six months was also demonstrated that babies hear the voice of Yoda just started to cry.
Opera know on 1 april to report that its data centers as well and threaten to go to the success of its compression technology, it applies under other Opera Mini. The browserbouwer’t seem to find the board more with the countless gigabytes of saved potentiokinetic data that is more and more accumulate. Therefore, the Opera enlisted the help of its users through a crowd-sourcing project. Users can use an e-mailattachment a small part of Opera’s dataoverschot absorb, so that the pressure on the bulging data centers decreases.
Security firm F-secure let them know that there in the wreck of the Titanic mysterious usb sticks have popped up. The company has the suspicion that the sticks of a zero-day exploit. The malware would then be written to the plc systems of the steam engines in the sunken passenger ship to attack. Definitive conclusions cannot yet be drawn; the research is still running.
Also in the open-source world, there is attention for the 1 april. So will GNU leader Richard Stallman started his own clothing line under the name of RMS on the market. According to the brand new fashion icon to wear a lot of programmers and geeks, but poor clothing, and it is therefore high time that he, with the RMS line of distinctive clothing style to the man is going to bring.
Topondernemer Richard Branson announces, finally, that he is a new startup founded: Virgin Volcanic. Inspired by the work of Jules Verne wants Branson to five people through an active volcano, let it descend to the center of the earth.
