Google celebrates 37 years of breakout.
Google has slipped a small easter egg into their Image Search page in the form of a playable Breakout game, which was originally released in 1976.
To get access to the game, navigate to the Image Search page and type in “Atari Breakout”
Click below for an interesting backstory (tl;dr - Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak originally produced the prototype Pong game):
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OK, last question. I’m gonna ask a hard-hitting one. Tumblr. Why no “e”?
We checked the domain name for ‘Tumbler.com’ and it was this mom and pop store for tumbler glasses. We thought it’d be pretty fun one day, when we got enough money, to acquire their whole business. No joke! Actually, that’s a joke.
—VICE’s 2009 interview with Tumblr founder David Karp is newly relevant
Wi-Fi Network Breaks Speed Record
news.discovery.com
Think your network is fast? Getting a gigabyte-sized movie over your local wireless network to your hard drive in a few seconds is old hat. Now there’s a network that can push a 2-hour, high-definition movie to a computer a mile away in less time than it takes to read a single word.
At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, a new record has been set: 40GB per second over a distance of about .6 of a mile. That’s like sending 10 high-def feature films.
Animated International Internet Usage Heatmap
From the Internet Census 2012:
World map of 24 hour relative average utilization of IPv4 addresses observed using ICMP ping requests.
Better resolution image and more info here
