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Check out this concept game from Agumented Environments Labs. Really looking forward to where this could go in the future. Imagine it on the streets! Hold up your phone and fire away at a virtual zombie crowd!!!

Today Google has announced a new (in inverted commas) version of their ridiculously popular search engine. While there is no major change to the user interface, the main work has been done under the hood in three specific areas; size, speed and accuracy. Research carried out by the dedicated team here at The Processor, has noted that the same search on the new Google and the old Google are producing some slightly different results, it is in the speed and quantity of results where there is most change.

A simple search returns similar results, but is delivering 3/4 less results in half the time. So it seems that these changes are more geared toward the power searcher and the developer using the API’s. Is this the first step in Google competing now to keep it’s share of the market? With Wolfram Alpha and Bing entering into the market, perhaps we will see a new flurry of activity from the Big G.

So it seems like the Kremlin are now just another government looking to take control over the Netz, with Georgian blogger Cyxymu claiming that Russian authorities were behind the recent Denial Of Service attack on Facebook and Twitter.

Cyxymu who’s real name is Gregory, a 34-year-old economics lecturer, told The Guardian “Maybe it was carried out by ordinary hackers but I’m certain the order came from the Russian government.” This may very well be the case, but the reason behind targeting a relatively unknown blogger remains unclear, is the Kremlin just wanting to show force? Because it seems to have had the opposite effect. (Below a cache of his LiveJournal blog)

LiveJournal cache of Cyxymu account

What seems to be coming clear is that more and more the tools that we use on the net are actually being taken seriously enough by governments to make them the target of attacks as well as requests to shift badly timed server maintenance.