Google Doodles

 

The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998.The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Larry and Sergey asked then-intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000. Hwang has been designing the Google Doodles ever since.

Google doodles have been produced for the birthdays of several noted artists and scientists, including Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Rabindranath Tagore, Louis Braille, Percival Lowell, Edvard Munch, Nikola Tesla, Béla Bartók, René Magritte, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Robert Moog, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, H. G. Wells, Freddie Mercury, Samuel Morse, Hans Christian Ørsted, Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Gabor, Constantin Brâncuși, Antonio Vivaldi, Abdel Halim Hafez, Jules Verne and Leonhard Euler, among others. 

Google goes old school to celebrate 15th birthday

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Google is letting users time travel and see what the search engine website looked like when it launched.

When users go to Google.com and search for "Google in 1998" the website transforms from its modern 2013 design to replicate what it looked like back in the late '90s.

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What is Windows Blue?

Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses. Next up is Windows 8.1, aka 'Windows Blue'. Here we look at what is Windows Blue (Windows 8.1), as well as the likely Windows Blue release date. (Updated 12 June 2013.)

Windows 'Blue': Microsoft blows it

If you like Windows 8, you'll like -- maybe even love -- Windows 8.1 "Blue." But if you're a denizen of the old-fashioned Desktop world, without a yearning for touch and/or you don't want your PC to act like a smartphone, Windows 8.1 will disappoint -- big time.

Last week, Microsoft invited several members of the press for an on-the-record two-hour demo of Windows 8.1, code-named "Blue." Microsoft took me off its Christmas card list some time ago, but the reports among journos on the ground are telling: Windows 8.1 offers more of the same, with a few new twists for touch users, but nothing substantive for the Desktop.

A Canopy of Confidence: Orion’s Parachutes

They were perhaps some of the most visible images of the end of each Apollo mission: Giant orange and white parachutes unfurled high above the spacecraft, gently descending toward the ocean. As NASA continues to build the Orion spacecraft and head toward its first unmanned test flight in 2014, it will once again descend under parachutes to a water landing. But even though the orange and white chutes remain, their design and testing is quite different than in the past.

GoDaddy outage due to "corrupt router tables", not hackers

An outage to popular Internet registrar GoDaddy.com that took thousands of websites offline for several hours Monday was the result of internal network events, not a malicious hacker, the company said on Tuesday.


The incident, which lasted from shortly after 10 a.m. PDT to 4 p.m. PDT, was due to a corruption of network router tables, said interim CEO Scott Wagner. 

More planets could harbour life

New computer models suggest there could be many more habitable planets out there than previously thought.

Scientists have developed models to help them identify planets in far-away solar systems that are capable of supporting life.

Al-Jazeera SMS service attacked by pro-Syrian hackers

The mobile service of Qatar-based news network al-Jazeera Arabic has been hacked.



Three texts with fake news alerts were sent via the broadcaster's SMS service.

A breaking news statement on the site said "the message claiming that [Qatar]'s prime minister has been the target of an assassination attempt… is false and was a result of a hack".

How smartphones make us superhuman

 

Editor's note: This story kicks off an in-depth CNN series, "Our Mobile Society," about how smartphones and tablets have changed the way we live.

Microsoft tells Google searchers to 'Bing it on'

Redmond's latest push to improve Bing's search share involves a new ad campaign and contest.

Microsoft is launching a new campaign in the U.S. today that it hopes will convince searchers accustomed to Googling that Binging is better.

Apple aims to produce updated iPad Retina, says DisplaySearch

Apple may update the Retina iPad in the coming months with a version that addresses thickness and weight.

Apple could be aiming to refresh the third-generation iPad to reduce weight and make other improvements, CNET has learned.

Spam from 'friends' is actually result of Facebook hole

Facebook has fixed the problem and says spammers are using friend lists they scraped before the fix to send new e-mails.

 Are you getting spam that has a Facebook friend's name listed as sender but was actually sent from an unknown e-mail address? Me too.