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A google images-like search engine for scientific publications.

Like Google Docs, but hosted on your own server, which could put aside fears of privacy etc. Worth a spin on ESA intranet?

some extensions to the known functions. for esa probabely a bit risky in terms of security...

A news aggregator like google news just for science.

really amazing

Dario, can you integrate the semantic asteroid?

Big brother is watching you...

Mash-up application: see on Google Earth who contributes to Wikipedia

I would propose that we test this as an alternative to collaborative writing on wiki or google docs? what you think? LS

new programming language - hybrid between c and python .... from google .... of any interest for us?

See the other post for my comments....

sorry - did not see Juxi's entry ....

"Ants is a multi-player strategy game set on a plot of dirt with water for obstacles and food that randomly drops. Each player has one or more hills where ants will spawn. The objective is for players to seek and destroy the most enemy ant hills while defending their own hills. Players must also gather food to spawn more ants, however, if all of a player's hills are destroyed they can't spawn any more ants."

next step ... almost as predicted ....

interesting story with many juicy details on how they proceed ... (similarly interesting nickname for the "operation" chosen by our british friends) "The spies used the IP addresses they had associated with the engineers as search terms to sift through their surveillance troves, and were quickly able to find what they needed to confirm the employees' identities and target them individually with malware. The confirmation came in the form of Google, Yahoo, and LinkedIn "cookies," tiny unique files that are automatically placed on computers to identify and sometimes track people browsing the Internet, often for advertising purposes. GCHQ maintains a huge repository named MUTANT BROTH that stores billions of these intercepted cookies, which it uses to correlate with IP addresses to determine the identity of a person. GCHQ refers to cookies internally as "target detection identifiers." Top-secret GCHQ documents name three male Belgacom engineers who were identified as targets to attack. The Intercept has confirmed the identities of the men, and contacted each of them prior to the publication of this story; all three declined comment and requested that their identities not be disclosed. GCHQ monitored the browsing habits of the engineers, and geared up to enter the most important and sensitive phase of the secret operation. The agency planned to perform a so-called "Quantum Insert" attack, which involves redirecting people targeted for surveillance to a malicious website that infects their computers with malware at a lightning pace. In this case, the documents indicate that GCHQ set up a malicious page that looked like LinkedIn to trick the Belgacom engineers. (The NSA also uses Quantum Inserts to target people, as The Intercept has previously reported.) A GCHQ document reviewing operations conducted between January and March 2011 noted that the hack on Belgacom was successful, and stated that the agency had obtained access to the company's

I knew I wasn't using TOR often enough...

Cool! It seems that after all it is best to restrict employees' internet access only to work-critical areas... @Paul TOR works on network level, so it would not help here much as cookies (application level) were exploited.

ever wanted to feel an important extremist to be of interest to big brother - just google for tor :-) it was never easier to be come an "extremist" what are the consequences of this? new opportunities for secure space-based communication services?

nice overview of the 3 main space related projects attempting to bring internet access to the world, namely SpaceX+Google micro-satellites network, OneWeb+Virgin Galactic OneWeb and Project Loon by Google. not a lot of technical details though...

I am having less and less faith in the Dwave machine, but nonetheless, maybe we should have a look at our future encryption techniques...

why less and less ... ?

Google quantum computer improves simulated annealing by a factor 10^8 (allegedly)