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Google Navigation hacked onto T-Mobile G1 (updated)

It's always a good sign when a device-specific product release becomes the focal point... more

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HP VCAM: No Excuses [Official Selection]

With HP's new Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web, you have no excuses not to... more

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Mystery: A Ghost Town That Exists Only In Google Maps

Halloween has gone but its traces still remains on Google Maps. A fictitious ghost... more

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Networks in Motion: Google Attacking Developer Community, Android "Openness" Total BS

In an interview with Laptop Magazine, Steve Andler, vice president of marketing for... more

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Is Google Maps Navigation "going to be huge"?

Tech blog Mashable.com and the share index seem to think so. So what is Google... more

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Produce Brand Uses Barcodes and Transparency to Promote Social Change

We limit the combined total dollar amount of item-labeled produce that any single... more

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Web users tell the world where they had sex

Ok, so rather than just updating your facebook status or tweeting your achievements to... more

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The spy world is a little bit closer - Google Earth LIVE!

Georgia Institute of Technology students (Haha GITs) have managed to create real-time... more

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The Survivalist

One man knows just what the future holds and he's got his HP Photosmart Premium... more

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HP Photosmart - Your New Best Friend

Once you use the HP PHOTOSMART Printer, your computer may get lonely. The PHOTOSMART... more

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Basic Shapes - Not your basic printer

Basic shapes help introduce your not so basic printer. Graphics keeps the commercial... more

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HP PRINTER VCAM: Take me to the Movies, Maybe I Will

Maybe I will. The music is from APM, one of the Mambo numbers.

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Accidentaly wonderful pictures

Two years ago, Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one... more

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Jennifer Sly, founder: YouthAssets, talks about Google Phone & Google Maps in Swaziland, Africa

Swaziland, Africa - July 2009: Jennifer Sly, Founder of YouthAssets, brought us with... more

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Google LatLong: New data in Google Earth show wider swath of destruction in Darfur

On the side of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum west wall is a quote etched into the rock from General Dwight D Eisenhower, who witnessed firsthand the conditions in the concentration camps in 1945, after they were liberated:

"The things I saw beggar description... I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations to propaganda.”

This ability to bear witness is vital in preventing and responding to genocide and crimes against humanity today.

Despite having far more information about the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan than previous conflicts - celebrity visits to refugee camps, CNN updates, blog posts from aid workers on the ground - it is difficult for the average American to grasp the true scope of systematic violence over an area roughly the size of Texas.

Now the Museum is providing, through its partnership with Google Earth, the most detailed picture to date of the scope and nature of the destruction that occurred during the genocide in Darfur. That thousands of villages were destroyed has been known for some time; these new data document the true enormity of the destruction.

The attacks against villages in Darfur resulted in the deaths of at least 200,000 civilians, the rape of tens of thousands of women, and a refugee crisis in which more than 2.5 million Sudanese remain displaced from their homes.

The updated Google Earth layer, created with data provided by the U.S. State Department’s Humanitarian Information Unit, shows more than 3,300 villages throughout Darfur that have been damaged or completely destroyed. These data also confirm that most villages were destroyed between 2003 and 2005, during the height of the brutal Sudanese government-backed systematic campaign targeting civilians in Darfur.

For the first time the layer also includes the locations of nearly 200 sites throughout Darfur where users can view imagery from both before and after the destruction, using Google’s own historical dataset. You can find the layer in the "Global Awareness" folder in Google Earth, as shown below, or by downloading the content directly. You can also visit the Museum's website to find out how you can take action.

The web is making it easier to take part in bearing witness to the worst crimes on the planet. Now, with millions throughout Sudan still at serious risk of violence, we must follow through on the more vital task- putting pressure on the international community to help create sustainable peace throughout Sudan. The perpetrators of mass violence in Sudan and elsewhere know that the world is watching.On the side of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum west wall is a quote etched into the... more