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13 great ideas from Google

On the 13th anniversary of the company that created the most popular Internet search engine, Google Inc., we review some of its best initiatives, from Google Earth to the Person Finder missing person search engine or the original Doodles with which it celebrates ephemeris.

How many types of users are there on Twitter?

According to a recent study carried out by the company Tendencies Digital, the majority of Twitter users (39%) belong to the category of followers and are only dedicated to following the profiles of other users without generating any type of content.

Much faster internet thanks to graphene

A study on graphene published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications reveals a key formula to improve the characteristics of graphene devices and use them as photodetectors in future high-speed optical communications.

Surfing the Internet improves productivity at work

According to a new study by researchers at the National University of Singapore, workers who spend some time surfing the Internet perform better and are more productive. After conducting experiments with three different groups of employees, JQ Chen and his colleagues concluded that using the Internet contributes to the mental recovery of workers over making phone calls, sending messages or exchanging emails.

They create an anti-censorship system for the Internet

It's called Telex, it was created by computer science researchers at the University of Michigan (USA) and the University of Waterloo (Canada), and it prevents a censoring government from blocking individual sites. "The Internet could catalyze change by giving people power through information and communication. Repressive governments have responded by imposing aggressive filters on the Internet," defends J. Alex Halderman, creator of Telex.

David Kirkpatrick:

David Kirkpatrick, 58, was one of the few tech journalists to bet on Zuckerberg and his Facebook. In his book The Facebook Effect, he reconstructs with great precision the birth of the first empire 2.0. In VERY Interesting we have interviewed him.

Tell me which browser you use and I'll tell you how smart you are

A controversial study conducted by the Canadian company AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting suggests that Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) users have a lower IQ than Internet users who regularly use other browsers.

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According to a study, we use the internet as our "personal data bank" and computers and online search engines have become a kind of "external memory" system that can be accessed at will of the user and to which human memory it is adapting.

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