11 Chrome Extensions to Improve Your Social Media Experience

If there's one thing that ties all your digital experiences together, it's your browser — let's presume it's Chrome. Maybe you use it on mobile in addition to desktop. It gets to know you, and you, it. But everyone has a few tricks up his or her sleeve. We did a little recon and found quite a few Chrome extensions that impact and enhance the way we use social media. See, most social sites try to keep things simple — if they add too many features, it would start to confuse people, especially new users. Have you tried any of these Chrome extensions? 1. While it doesn't support Instagram videos quite yet, the Instagram extension easily checks in on your stream without opening a new window. 2. Reddit is not a pretty site — the focus is the content and minimalist functions, so the platform does without any bells and whistles. 3. Some common recommendations for strong passwords: Use bad grammar and never apply the same password to multiple sites. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Cheetah-cub: A robot that runs like a cat Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its experimental stage, the robot will serve as a platform for research in locomotion and biomechanics. Even though it doesn't have a head, you can still tell what kind of animal it is: the robot is definitely modeled upon a cat. Developed by EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob), the "cheetah-cub robot," a small-size quadruped prototype robot, is described in an article appearing today in the International Journal of Robotics Research. The purpose of the platform is to encourage research in biomechanics; its particularity is the design of its legs, which make it very fast and stable. Robots developed from this concept could eventually be used in search and rescue missions or for exploration. This robot is the fastest in its category, namely in normalized speed for small quadruped robots under 30Kg.

Fear of thinking war machines may push US to exascale Tianhe 2 (credit: National University of Defense Technology, China) China’s retaking of the global supercomputing crown was discussed at a congressional forum this week on cognitive computing, Computerworld reports. Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program. Rep. An exascale computer is operates at 1,000 petaflops (one petaflop is one thousand trillion floating point operations per second). Earl Joseph, an HPC analyst at IDC, said that “$200 million is better than nothing, but compared to China and Europe it’s at least 10 times too low.”