Month: May 2013

‘Fast & Furious 6’ Peels Out Nine New Clips

It always feels like overkill when a studio releases a large number of clips from a movie in anticipation of its impending release date, but that’s exactly what Universal Pictures has done with “Fast & Furious 6.” Fortunately this series has proved time and again that it doesn’t need a brilliant marketing strategy to get people in theaters.

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Bridging the gaps with Street View

Recently we sent our Street View cars driving through the historic seaport town of Kaliningrad (the modern name for Koenigsberg) in Russia as part of our quest to keep Google Maps comprehensive, accurate and useful.

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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Writer Doesn’t Expect J.J. Abrams To Return For Third Film

At the “Star Trek Into Darkness” premiere in London, MTV News’ Josh Horowitz caught up with one of the film’s writers, Damon Lindelof, to discuss the future of the series and director J.J. Abrams’ next gig, helming “Star Wars: Episode VII.” Though he said he was no doubt thrilled that his “LOST” co-creator would get a chance to director a “Star Wars” movie, there was a part of Lindelof that was disappointed. “I was thrilled, obviously, as a ‘Star Wars’ fanatic, that it was going to be in great hands and a little bit sad that he was going to be leaving ‘Star Trek,’ but he’s still going to produce the next one,” Lindelof said

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Marking a cultural shift in computing with EDSAC

Computing’s early days are full of stories about great technical leaps forward.  But sometimes what matters most isn’t a shift in technology so much as a change in the way it is used.  The “Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator” (EDSAC)—64 years old today—is a stellar example.

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