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DigitalGlobe was an American commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on 14 May 2009, selling 14.7 million shares at US$19.00 each to raise US$279 million in capital.
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is a 2008 article written by technologist Nicholas Carr for The Atlantic, and later expanded on in a published edition by W. W. Norton.The book investigates the cognitive effects of technological advancements that relegate certain cognitive activities—namely, knowledge-searching—to external computational devices.
View from an infinite distance. 1740 Vertical perspective: Azimuthal Perspective Matthias Seutter* View from a finite distance. Can only display less than a hemisphere. 1919 Two-point equidistant: Azimuthal Equidistant Hans Maurer Two "control points" can be almost arbitrarily chosen.
NASA World Wind, USGS topographic maps and several satellite and aerial image datasets, the first popular virtual globe along with Google Earth. World Wind is open-source software . NORC is a street view web service for Central and Eastern Europe. OpenWebGlobe, a virtual globe SDK written in JavaScript using WebGL.
A number of Internet commentators viewed Google Free Zone as both inspired by and a potential competitor to Facebook Zero. [15] [16] [17] [18]The Subsecretaria de Telecomunicaciones of Chile ruled that Zero-rating services like Wikipedia Zero, Facebook Zero, and Google Free Zone, that subsidize mobile data usage, violate net neutrality laws and that the practice had to end by June 1, 2014.
On the Silver Globe (Polish: Na srebrnym globie) is a 1988 Polish epic science fiction film [1] directed and written by Andrzej Żuławski, adapted from The Lunar Trilogy by his grand-uncle, Jerzy Żuławski.
The 76th ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and American television of 2018, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Produced by Dick Clark Productions and the HFPA, the ceremony was broadcast live on January 6, 2019, from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. [2]
On 10 November 2010, the European Commission opened a formal investigation into Google's search practices. Despite pursuing negotiations with Google for commitments under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003 and despite being offered commitments by Google that ‘address the Commission's concerns’, [5] the Commission, allegedly under political pressure, [6] issued a Statement of Objections (SO) to ...