Hey, wanna start a band? A new Chrome
Experiment, JAM with Chrome,
lets you play music in a web app and jam with others online in real time. You get to pick from
19 different instruments, including drums, guitars, and keyboards. Once you get really good,
you can use shortcuts on your (computer) keyboard to play your instrument.
When you’ve had enough fun making music with your friends, you can explore how JAM with Chrome
works. Take a look at the tools and
technologies that were used to make this app, and for details, read the case
study. Then you can decide whether you want to build the next great web app or
become a rock star instead.
Speaking of stars, scientists have astonishingly figured out how to learn
about light from every star that ever existed. Researchers used the orbiting Fermi Large Area Telescope to look at
distant galaxies and measure photons from various places around the universe. This data goes
back to the formation of the first stars more than 13 billion years ago.
Finally, back on our own planet, you might have noticed that Google Maps recently added
more building footprints to map displays. In case you didn’t count them, over 25
million new building footprints have been added to both desktop and mobile versions of Google
Maps. Maybe you’ll see the new footprints while exploring your favorite city this
weekend.
On Fridays we detour slightly from our usual posts and publish a Fridaygram, a
fun compilation of nerdy stuff to amuse you (and us). And how cool is it that we have orbiting
telescopes?
