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Archive for April 5th, 2005

Google Experiments with Video Blogging

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

[/.] PunkOfLinux writes “TechWeb has an article about Google’s plans to start a video service that sounds similar to Picasa. Excerpt: ‘While there’s no formal announcement yet, Google co-founder Larry Page said Monday that the well-known search engine concern would soon let the general public upload self-produced videos to Google’s servers, partly in an effort to learn more about how to more efficiently search and display information about video-based data.’”

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Black Holes ‘Do Not Exist,’ Contends Physicist

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

[/.] SpaceAdmiral writes Nature reports that, according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, ‘It’s a near certainty that black holes don’t exist.’

George Chapline argues that the collapse of massive stars is more likely to lead to dark energy stars. These dark energy stars behave somewhat like a black hole outside of the surface, but the negative gravity inside could cause matter to ‘bounce back out again.’”

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