Sorry to burst your bubble, but it turns out bursting bubbles is more complicated than anyone thought.
Conventional wisdom has held that when a bubble pops, it vanishes. Now scientists have found that a popped bubble actually creates a ring of smaller daughter bubbles in its wake.
The discovery isn’t just mind-popping — it could have real-world [...]

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Science of bursting bubbles has its bubble burst

Google’s working on a new application-layer protocol dubbed SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) which is intended to improve how content is transported over the web. In initial lab tests, they’ve already managed to speed up page loading times by 55%.

While the lab tests aren’t the best reflection of how the protocol would work under real world conditions, they are an encouraging start to Google’s project. [SPDY via Chromium Blog]

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Google’s SPDY To Make Websites Load Faster [Google]