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Google Buzz retires to make way for Google+

Google Buzz is going away. Kudos to the folks at This Week in Google. I believe Leo Laporte or something on the show correctly predicted they’d end Buzz to make way for Google+. Farewell, Buzz! We didn’t get to know each other well, but we shared a few tweets when you asked if I wanted to connect my Twitter account.

Google Body Browser: Google Earth for the human body, all in HTML5!

Google Body Browser lets you explore the human body within your web browser. This video is a demo of Body Browser that shows how you can slide a bar to show skin, bones, internal organs, the nervous system and the brain. This is all done using HTML5 technology, which is stirring up the web world by producing these type of powerful visualizations without using Flash, right inside your browser.

Google Body Browser Demo Video

Try Google Body Browser yourself in Google Labs!

Google phones, cars, TV’s and Chrome OS

In this interview, Eric Schmidt talks about turning our phones into credit cards, self-driving cars, cars wih buggy software being better drivers than drunk humans, attrition at Google, facial recognition, real-time satellite imagery, the line between smart technology and creepiness, Google TV, Chrome OS and Android.