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Google’s Earth View extension for Chrome spruces up your boring old ‘new tab’ page

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by on October 13, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Product Launches

Do you know what’s boring? When you open a new tab in Google Chrome. Unless you have an extension installed, it’s a white canvas with the Google search bar and a selection of website shortcuts. Yawn. To spruce things up a bit, Google has launched an Earth View extension which displays a different, beautiful satellite image every time you open a new tab. Better yet, you can click the globe icon in the corner to see the current photo inside Google Maps. It’s a simple tool for whisking your imagination away to somewhere new and combating those glum autumnal months….

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Google’s Smart Autofill Add-on for Sheets will try to predict missing values with machine learning

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by on October 13, 2014 at 5:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Google has developed a Smart Autofill Add-on for Google Sheets which improves the spreadsheet tool’s ability to predict values in empty fields. The baseline version of Google Sheets already has an autofill feature that can add words, numbers, or a mixture of the two based on widely available information, such as calendar dates, days of the week and ordered numbers. While useful, it’s not so helpful if you’re working with intricate datasets or reports. The new Smart Autofill Add-on uses Prediction API, a cloud-based machine learning service developed by Google, to identify and analyse the data you’ve already submitted. It will use…

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20 years ago today, the commercial Web browser was born with Netscape Navigator

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by on October 13, 2014 at 5:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

There are many landmark moments and key figures who have contributed to the evolution of the internet we see today. Way back in the late 1960s, Vint Cerf was involved in a project that saw the first ever message sent from one computer to another on the ARPANET, a predecessor to the internet. And Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who created the World Wide Web in the early 90s as a way of accessing information on the Internet, is another such luminary. Today represents another key milestone in the recent history of this thing we call the Web. On…

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Leaked Snapchat images: Snapsaved.com now claims it was hacked

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by on October 13, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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After thousands of Snapchat photos were leaked last Friday, with much confusion as to the origin of the hacks, some clarity has emerged as to what actually happened. As we noted in our original post, Snapchat ‘s servers themselves were not hacked. Instead, the company was quick to point out users were affected choosing to use third-party apps use for saving Snapchat photos. There was then confusion about which service was actually the source of the leaked photos,, with reports pointing to both an app called Snapsave, and the website ‘snapsaved.com’ (which now only shows a blank page). Later that day, however, Snapsave…

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Duolingo’s crowdsourced language learning platform has made 40 courses for 11 million people

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by on October 13, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Duolingo announced today that its Language Incubator platform, where anyone can contribute to new language lessons, has resulted in 40 additional courses taken by over 11 million people. The initiative was launched in October last year to help Duolingo provide new materials for its growing community of language learners. Anyone can apply to be a course contributor; on the site you can see which modules are in development, which are in beta and their estimated completion date. Duolingo also uses algorithms to ensure contributions are of a high quality. More than 200 volunteers have worked on the new courses so…

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