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With Sports on Earth, general manager Steve Madden and editor in chief Larry Burke have a simple goal for their new site: top-notch sportswriting. "On this property the central experience is reading," Madden said. "This is very much planting a stake in the ground and saying that we are about the written word."

Google Earth Outreach employs satellites to read simple graphic images drawn on the ground. Image recognition software to scans the pictures for the codes, detects the location, and extracts information from the image.

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"William Gelner, executive creative director at 180LA, the agency behind the campaign, told Adweek, "For many, social media has become a way to brag or show off.  From posting images of expensive  meals or wine they've had to exotic vacations they're on, this is an epidemic, and it's running rampant.  This is weird, considering the economic climate we're in.  Mitsubishi, a car with great design but at a more down-to-earth price, felt compelled to make a statement in-line with their brand ethos." When you head over to MitsubishiUnpretentious.com you'll be redirected to the Mitsubishi Facebook page, where a photo from your most pretentious friend will get mowed down by the Outlander Sport.  You can then watch as Mitsubishi analyzes more of your most pretentious friends and mows them down too."

A daredevil leapt from a balloon more than 18 miles above the Earth today (July 25), moving one step closer to a so-called "space jump" that would set the record for the world's highest skydive. Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner stepped out of his custom-built capsule at an altitude of 96,640 feet (29,456 meters) above southeastern New Mexico, officials with Red Bull Stratos - the name of Baumgartner's mission - announced today.

Solar powered drones that can fly for five years! They'll surround the earth creating a mesh network of awesomeness.

best buy wants you to recycle e-waste! i love planet earth and so does best buy :-) daily 7.9

daily 7.30 really cool! shows images, you can zoom in for more detailed weather images/info, richer than the google earth weather before

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QR code atop roofs on google maps.