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The Japanese government has expanded the long-term evacuation radius around the Fukushima nuclear plant to 30 kilometers (18.6 miles). The United States government is still asking to all their citizens inside an 80-kilometer radius to leave. That’s almost 50 miles. More »

The late Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is being honoured around the world Tuesday on the 50th anniversary of his pioneering flight in space.

(Cross-posted from the Google Docs Blog)

Exactly one year ago, we launched a new version of the Google document editor, created from the ground up to take advantage of the latest capabilities in modern web browsers like Chrome. In particular, we baked in a way of supporting text features that aren’t natively included with browsers—for example, we added a ruler for controlling the margins, text that wraps around images to create eye-catching docs and discussions for a more collaborative editing experience.

Today, we’re doing another first for web browsers by adding a classic word processing feature—pagination, the ability to see visual pages on your screen. We’re also using pagination and some of Chrome’s capabilities to improve how printing works in Google Docs. Pagination is rolling out now and should be available to everyone by the end of the day.

Pagination adds visual page breaks while you’re editing your documents, so now you can see how many pages of that report you’ve actually finished. Because we’re able to show you individual pages, we can improve the way other features work too: headers now show up at the top of each page instead of just at the top of your doc, manual page breaks actually move text onto a new page and footnotes appear at the bottom of the pages themselves.

If you prefer editing documents with a continuous layout, you can hide page breaks by selecting the “Compact” document view from the “View” menu.

Pagination also changes what’s possible with printing in modern browsers. We’ve worked closely with the Chrome team to implement a recent web standard so we can support a feature called native printing. Before, if you wanted to print your document we’d need to first convert it into a PDF, which you would then need to open and print yourself. With native printing, you can print directly from your browser and the printed document will always exactly match what you see on your screen.

For now, native printing is only available in Google Chrome, but we’re hoping other browsers will implement the same web standard so everyone can have the best possible printing experience with Docs.

Pagination and native printing are great examples of how modern browsers are making it possible to take the best parts of the desktop experience and bring them online. Please share your feedback on the Google Docs forum.

Posted by Luiz Pereira, Software Engineer

What happens when the world’s largest commercial jet clips the tail of a much smaller plane? Some tarmac turbulence that left the passengers of Comair Flight 6293 spinning. More »

The Conservatives have put forward an invasive, anti-Internet set of “Lawful Access” policies that would have Internet providers collect our personal information without court oversight. If this goes through, officials will have real-time access to our online information.

It’s official: the HTC Flyer will begin its journey across Europe on May 9th. That’s quite a bit more specific than the Q2 global release announced back in February. Now if only we had a date for Honeycomb’s arrival on HTC’s 1.5GHz 7-inch slate we’d be all set.

See more HTC event coverage in our Liveblog.

HTC Flyer begins shipping on May 9th across Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Education is important and all that good stuff. But, sometimes there are just things that have to take precedence.

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Education is important and all that good stuff. But, sometimes there are just things that have to take precedence.

Source: Imgur

Zune Pass isn’t something new, nor is it something that hasn’t been widely covered online, but we’re convinced that it really could be the first good attempt at the fight against piracy. We tested out the music subscription to see how well it really works, and if it could actually…

The badly-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has been upgraded from 5 to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. That’s, in case you were wondering, out of seven. The only other nuclear crisis to reach the same level is Chernobyl, and though authorities believe “the cumulative amount [of radiation] from the Fukushima plant is less than that from Chernobyl,” another aftershock—6.6 magnitude—forced workers to evacuate on Monday, and Reactor No. 4 is apparently on fire. [NHK; image via AP] More »

A federal appeals court has ruled that former Harvard University schoolmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can’t undo their settlement over creation of the social networking site.

We've all gotten emails with disclaimer signatures, like "This email was intended for the recipients only" or "Our company accepts no liability for this email's content". It turns out they're not just annoying—they probably hold no legal weight, either. More »

If you signed up the Xbox 360 preview program it’s time to start camping out by your mailbox and pestering your delivery person — the update discs are shipping. A few lucky gamers now have their sneak peak at the next Xbox Live update and free copy of Halo: Reach in hand, and one was kind enough to send us the shot above to prove it. The disc bears a serious warning though: do not try and install it on a non-preview approved system. Doing so will completely disable Xbox Live until the update is officially released, which may be months away. So, if your friend got a disc don’t even think about trying to mooch your way into the beta program. After all, what fun is playing Halo if you’re stuck trying to save Reach by yourself?

[Thanks, Adam]

Xbox 360 Update Preview discs are in the mail originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Late to—but not quite out of—the app store game, Microsoft has a challenger after all: images have surfaced of the Windows 8 App Store, the company's challenger to Apple's Mac app emporium. More »

Over in Acer HQ, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Having bid ciao to former CEO Gianfranco Lanci, the Taiwanese company is now slapping a fresh coat of paint and a softer typeface upon its corporate identity. The new Acer green is lighter and brighter and the more rounded new shape looks a lot safer for kids to play around with, should the occasion ever arise. We doubt this will make a big difference in the company’s push to be “more like Apple,” but hey, at least we now have a visual marker to distinguish the products that came before this shift in strategy from those that come after.

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Acer changes its logo, hopes to start afresh originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, it’s a bit past the end of March, but Intel has now finally gotten official with its new Atom Z670 processor for tablets, which you might know better by its Oak Trail codename. Built using a 45nm manufacturing process, the Z670 runs at 1.5GHz and promises to support 1080p video with the aid of Intel’s GMA 600 integrated graphics, while also keeping power consumption to a minimum and allowing for smaller, thinner, and fanless devices. As we’ve seen, there’s also plenty of manufacturers already lined up to release devices based on the processor, and Intel says we can expect to see over 35 “innovative tablet and hybrid designs” from the likes of Fujitsu, Lenovo, Razer and Viliv over the course of 2011. What’s more, Intel also took the opportunity to tease its next generation 32nm Cedar Trail platform that it will be showing off at its Developer Forum in Beijing, saying that it will enable a “new wave of fanless, cool and quiet, sleek and innovative netbooks, entry-level desktops and all-in-one designs.” Full press release is after the break.

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Intel rolls out Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor for tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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