Google's Chrome browser is released, designed to spice up the web browsing experience. Of course, the Linux version is lagging behind:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/google_new_chrome_browser/
Google signs a deal to get the images from the GeoEye-1 satellite, set to launch from California in the next week:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10028842-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1023_3-0-5
The island of Niue gets the world's first 100% saturation of students with OLPC XO laptops:
http://pipka.org/blog/2008/08/16/olpc-in-niue/
Not long after Richard Stallman's visit to NZ, the GNU project celebrates its 25th brithday:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/gnu_at_25/
Photos of the HTC Dream, touted as the world's first phone to natively run Google's Android phone OS:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/30/htcs-android-driven-dream-revealed-in-glorious-spy-photos/
Toshiba bring out a pocket LED projector weighing 100 grams but outputting 10 lumens of image:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1850
Magnetically-guided silicon microgrippers are shown my MIT that can be steered around your insides and then triggered to collect biopsies:
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/08/microsurgery_using_microgrippers.html
And finally. Australian sprinters do a 100m dash in 3-inch heels. The prize? A$5,000 and a pair of gold stilettos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7593509.stm
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