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Conan Takes on the 'Angry Birds,' Eric Schmidt Details His Favorite Reads

by Thomas Houston on March 7, 2011 at 06:40 PM

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.

Read:

Eric Schmidt: What I Read
I believe in the power of information-the world is a better place when more information is available to more and more people; it's crucial to a functioning democracy. For me, there's no better place to get accurate, fresh information-well-reported information-than a newspaper.
Drowning in Beeps
Physicists, too, started to sense that the matter of the universe may be nothing more than the physical manifestation of information, that the most fundamental particles may be carriers and transmitters of messages. The bit, Gleick reports, could well turn out to be the basic unit of existence. The entire universe may be nothing more than "a cosmic information-processing machine."

Watch:

Know:

  • Subscription music service Rdio just launched a free, full-featured native app for Mac users, complete with Growl updates. [From: Rdio]
  • Al-Jazeera's new Twitter dashboard displays the day's top four most tweeted about countries (and an accompany livestream of relevant tweets) and a breakdown of the most important keywords in each of those countries. [From: Al-Jazeera]

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