11 Celebrities who are real geeks
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Those are the days when celebrities were really gorgeous, having great fit, wealthy and also glamorous. But now there are a lot of changes happening including the return of witty jokes, cook books and films and also the TV shows about the aliens and supernatural. Lots of geeks are given really encouraging roles which has put the traditional celebs to the back. Let’s look at some celebs who are the upcoming geeks who seek fame and fortune.

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Google applied for four technology patents to speed up Chrome

Submitted by admin on Monday, 8 February 2010No Comment

Google is not leaving away any stone unturned to make its Chrome browser to as much as web savvy, and in its latest efforts the search engine giant have filed for four patent applications to make the Web a more powerful foundation for applications.

Out of four three patents are about Google’s Native Client, a technology used for letting downloaded software modules run directly on a processor instead of running through slow JavaScript. And the forth application is about O3D, technology, which allows browser applications to be benefited by 3D acceleration of graphics hardware. The new patents are in the area especially required for fast moving area of Web Development and associated technology as for making cloud computing a more powerful foundation for applications.

Thus, Google hopes to universalize the technology so all browsers can use it. “Native Client so far is outside any standards process. We’re in discussions with other browser vendors on how to move that forward. We’d like to see all these things standardized,” as told by Linus Upson, engineering director for the Chrome browser and Chrome OS. As Chrome is primarily in competition with Microsoft, Apple’s Safari, and Mozilla’s Firefox, the patent applications filed up by Google is to speed up Web-based software to take advantage of undiluted power of computing hardware. The more powerful a web application happens to be more natively they run on an operating system like as Windows. Whereas O3D lets browsers running JavaScript programs using graphics processing units (GPUs) and common with computer science operating systems now a days.

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