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To critics, it's flat-out junk science, not even worth thinking about. But its inventor, Roger Shawyer, has doggedly continued his work. As Danger Room reported last year, Chinese scientists claimed to validate his math and were building their own version. - huixing

Vint Cerf, Google's internet evangelist, has unveiled a new protocol intended to power an interplanetary internet. The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol emerged from work first started in 1998 in partnership with Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The initial goal was to modify the ubiquitous Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to facilitate robust communications between celestial bodies and satellites. - huixing

Code named Wasabi, the version will go into private beta later this week and will launch to the public at December's Le Web conference in Paris, where the theme of the event is the real-time web. - huixing

The use of this sort of technology hints at how Google plans to make their Chrome web browser the core of their upcoming netbook operating system, Google Chrome OS. The new OS will run web applications "in the cloud," a radical change from current OS offerings where many applications are still installed on the computer's hard drive itself. - huixing

Google Docs has a webbased PDF reader that far outshines Adobes Reader, did you know? Did you also know that you can now view any online PDF document using this reader? Well you can, and using this freshly brewed bookmarklet, - huixing

Conyac is a place for social translation over the internet. It is a user friendly website that enables you to request a translation or translate a request by another user, in order to gain Conyac points. These points can be used for your next translation request or they can be converted into money using a Paypal account. - huixing

MMORPGやRTSといったジャンルのゲームでは複雑な操作を一瞬で成功させることが勝敗のカギを握るわけですが、そんな時に便利なのがたくさんボタンのついたマウス。例えばゲーム用品で有名なRazer社のNagaゲーミングマウスの場合17個のボタンがついており、合わせて19個のコマンドをマウスだけで入力することができるようになっているわけですが、現在それをはるかに上回る18個のボタンとアナログジョイスティック、そして強力なマクロ機能を備えた「OpenOfficeMouse」の開発が進行しているようです。 - huixing

到訪Google北京辦公室已經是接近一個月前的事。之前已經寫了幾篇有關Voice Search的文章，但其實最想寫的是這篇，介紹他們的辦公室。說是「介紹」，有點不盡不實，因為其實我沒有逛過每一層的樓層，但也有一些事情是看完之後，很想與大家分享的。 - huixing

在努力攻克英文的同时，我也没有忘记对中文的持续学习。妈妈每年来陪我住6个月，这期间，我们自然是用汉语交流，另外6个月，她要求我每星期给她写一封家信，而且必须用中文写，这样我就不会忘记中文。而妈妈每次在给我回信的同时，都会把我的信寄回来，她会认真地修改，标出错别字和用词不当的地方，就跟批改作文一样。我几乎每天都在用中文写作，这样的习惯，让我没有像很多小留学生一样，习惯了新的语言，却渐渐丢掉了自己的母语。 - huixing

I don’t think this is an iPhone-killer as much as it’s another scoop out of Blackberry’s bucket. This beats the crap out of the Storm, and probably also the Tour. I think the Palm Pre will also get smooshed a bit by this phone, too. - huixing

(1)一定期間内(あるいは一定投稿数以内?)の同一文面による重複投稿をはじく(2)140字を越える投稿は無視して更新しない、というようなものだったらしい。本サイトのbotのつぶやきは大概の場合140字を越えてしまうので、今回は後者のほうにひっかかってしまったわけだ。今までも最大160文字という制限はあったが、溢れた場合でも単に溢れた部分が切り捨てられるだけで更新自体は行われていたように記憶している。 - huixing

Both insist on using Cantonese pronunciations to spell their names in English. Pang and Yao are among a group of Guangzhou natives who fear for the future of Cantonese in the capital of Guangdong. - huixing

"Chinatown" communities across the United States (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco) are undergoing a shift in linguistic identity, as recent immigrants are more likely to natively speak Mandarin (the official spoken language of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) instead of Cantonese. - huixing

搜狗云输入法跨平台、免安装，对于Linux、Mac OS等操作系统的用户，或在网吧等临时使用环境，都能在上网冲浪时享受搜狗输入法的流畅输入体验 。搜狗云输入法作为搜狗输入法的创新实验室，将持续探索创新的输入模式，并将创新成果移植进入搜狗拼音输入法，提升两亿多的搜狗用户的输入体验。 - huixing

Search giant Google is rumoured to be on the verge of releasing its own Android-powered handset, as well as a music streaming service that could compete with Spotify. - huixing