The spike in gas prices over the last several years (in many areas surpassing four or even five dollars per gallon) may be the number one factor in the recent advances in electric vehicle technology. Hybrids have improved in their efficiency (especially when it comes to the energy consumed in the creation of the hybrid […]
Google Translate Gets Five New Languages
Five new Indic languages (languages spoken in the general region of India) have been added to Google translate, bringing the total number of languages to 63. Those languages, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu, are spoken by half a billion people in Bangladesh and India and many more speakers are located throughout the world. The web […]
Google Street View Receives Halt in Bangalore
It was in late May that Vinay Goel, the product head of Google India, announced with pride that, “We are launching the Street View project from Bangalore as it is the IT capital of India where IT-savvy users will be able to leverage the benefits of the facility optimally.” It only took three weeks for […]