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View ArticleGoogle Earth’s Giant Santa Sightings
Christmas time is here, happiness and cheer, especially for the Internet industry, a collective that embraces every popular holiday with open arms. With that in mind, going all out for the Christmas...
View ArticleWebGL Hangout For Chrome Developers
This appears to be becoming a regular thing – Google uploading developer hangouts (from Google+) to YouTube for all to watch and learn from. We recently looked at one about Chrome Developer Tools and...
View ArticleGoogle: Meet The Web Platform
Computer science arguments are always the cutest things. Take for instance Alex Komoroske, product manager for the Chromium Project at Google. He had an argument with a friend over whether the Web...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Gets Better Graphics
In previous stories, we’ve reported on Chrome’s ability to render 3D objects using WebGL. The demos shown previously, like the water in a bathtub, show the browser rendering impressive 3D objects with...
View ArticleMarble Madness Meets Google Maps in WebGL Game
Google has let another experiment out of its secret lab and this one has an appetite for your free time – or, better, for your time while you’re at the office. This fearsome new creation is a game...
View ArticleGoogle Created This Interactive Visualization Of The Global Arms Trade
Google has built an interactive visualization, looking at (and mapping out) data about the global arms trade, using the open source WebGL Globe on Google’s Chrome Experiments site. The visualization...
View ArticleFirefox Update Brings Big Improvements To HTML5 Games
Mozilla, like Google, has been investing heavily in HTML5 development. One of the best ways to show off the latest improvements in HTML5 and WebGL development is through the creation of games. With the...
View ArticleFirefox 15 Brings Speed Improvements To Desktop And Mobile
Firefox 15 may be the most important release of Mozilla’s browser to date. For what seems like forever now, Firefox has had issues with memory. Certain add-ons, when installed, would eat up massive...
View ArticleWebGL Has Come A Long Way Since Last Year
Last year, Mozilla released an impressive tech demo called BananaBread that showed how HTML5 and WebGL can handle 3D rendering in a game. It was very basic, but it showed a lot of promise, especially...
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