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Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome 385

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @10:11AM from the inevitable-compromise dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google quietly released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, which not only blows its rivals out of the water as far as performance is concerned, but comes with half a dozen new features, including direct integration of Adobe Flash. First benchmarks show that the new beta is about 10% faster than the previous beta in the SunSpider and V8 benchmark, and about 30% faster than Chrome 4, which remains the fastest JavaScript browser available today."

Mayan Plumbing Found In Ancient City 220

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @09:35PM from the series-of-tubes dept.

DarkKnightRadick writes "An archaeologist and a hydrologist have published evidence that the ancient Mayans had pressurized plumbing as early as sometime between the year 100 (when the city of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico, was first founded) and 800 (when it was abandoned). While the Egyptians had plumbing way earlier (around 2500 BC), this is the first instance of plumbing in the New World prior to European exploration and conquest."

Comment Re:FFS (Score 1) 229

by lief79 on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @12:34AM (#20300793) Attached to: A Talk With Opera CEO

Can't help but wonder what you were doing before 1981. :-)

Feed Water investment report says water prices too low (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @12:12PM

Blog: Artificially low prices of water are preventing investment in technologies to improve infrastructure and provide fresh water to...

Submission + - Chinese "virtual currency" challenges the

Submitted by Radon360 on Friday March 30, 2007 @11:50AM

Radon360 writes: A Wall Street Journal article reports that China's fastest-rising currency isn't the yuan. It's the QQ coin — online play money created by marketers to sell such things as virtual flowers for instant-message buddies, cellphone ringtones and magical swords for online games.

In recent weeks, the QQ coin's real-world value has risen as much as 70%.

It's the most extreme case of a so-called virtual currency blurring the boundaries between the online and real worlds — and challenging legal limits. A Chinese Internet company called Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed the payment system in 2002 to allow its 233 million regular registered users to shop for treats in its virtual world. Virtual currencies are in use in many countries — but nowhere have they taken root more deeply than in China.

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