The Google Lunar X PRIZE at five: can it still be won?
On September 13, 2007, at the Wired NextFest in downtown Los Angeles, Google and the X PRIZE Foundation formally announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE (see “Google's moonshot”, The Space Review, September 17, 2007). The goal of the GLXP: land a …
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Today in APIs: Google BigQuery Goes JSON, Yahoo PlaceFinder and 16 New …
Google BigQuery, our cloud service for ad-hoc analytics on big data, has now added support for JSON and the nested/repeated structure inherent in the data format. JSON opens the door to a more object-oriented view of your data compared to CSV, the …
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Google Relents, Takes Down Controversial Video in Brazil
Google does not agree with the judge who found the video clips violate Brazilian election laws that forbid personal criticism of candidates during an election, the Washington Post is reporting. While the offensive video was reportedly removed by the …
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