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Google Doodle celebrates Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer

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Google Doodle celebrates Ada Lovelace, the worlds first computer programmer

Today's Google Doogle celebrates the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, the pioneering mathematician who is regarded as the world's first computer programmer. Responsible for the first algorithm designed for Babbage's Difference Engine, even if the machine wasn't built in her lifetime, she envisaged a future where computers could create music and images. Every October, a day of celebration is held in her honor, designed to raise awareness for women's achievement in the fields of science and technology. If you'd like to know more about her story, head on over to Google and click on her portrait.

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Google pays tribute to Star Trek with latest doodle, red shirts still can’t catch a break

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Google pays homage to Star Trek with latest doodle,

Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor not a Google logo.

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Google pays tribute to Star Trek with latest doodle, red shirts still can't catch a break originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Doodle friday: End your week with a penalty shootout

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Doodle friday: End your week with a penalty shootout

Relive the nail-biting insanity and inherent unfairness of soccer's penalty shootout over at Google right now, as you try to match our first-attempt score of 18 points and two gold stars. (We'll update this post as soon as an Engadget editor gets a result we can be proud of.) It's a ballistic way to end a run of Doodles that has already involved canoeing, hoops, hurdles and all-round Olympic work avoidance. Post your scores here at your own risk.

Update: Did we say 18? We meant 81, but forgot to take a grab, so officially we'll have to make do with a top score of 34.

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Doodle friday: End your week with a penalty shootout originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hit the rapids with Google’s latest Olympic doodle

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DNP Hit the rapids with Google's latest Olympic doodle

It's time to pound the arrow keys again for Mountain View's latest Olympic doodle game, a whitewater slalom canoe challenge. The idea is to speed through the course with the left/right keys in the best time while using up/down to avoid rocks and the riverbank. Our intrepid web paddlers managed a time of 18 seconds so far, and you can post your own time in the comments below -- if you dare.

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Hit the rapids with Google's latest Olympic doodle originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google keeps the interactive Olympic doodles going, tests your spacebar with a game of hoops

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If your keyboard survived yesterday's track & field test, the folks in Mountain View have posted another interactive doodle to satisfy your Olympic dreams. This time around, you can give arcarde-style basketball your best shot by tapping on your spacebar to get into a rhythm from the charity stripe. Once you hit that blue play button, you'll have 24 seconds to give the main search page your best Kevin Durant. A chance for Google+ bragging rights awaits your fingers via the source link below.

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Google keeps the interactive Olympic doodles going, tests your spacebar with a game of hoops originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s Olympic doodles get interactive with button-mashing hurdles

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Google's Olympic doodles get interactive with buttonmashing hurdles

Google has already churned out quite a few of its trademark doodles for the Olympics, but it's upped its game considerably today for its depiction of the hurdles. Pressing that red play button on the search engine's front page will let you test your Track & Field skills (and your keyboard's sturdiness) in an interactive event -- one where you can, naturally, also share your results on Google+ when you're finished. Hit the source link below to give it a go yourself.

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Google's Olympic doodles get interactive with button-mashing hurdles originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s Turing doodle celebrates his genius, reminds us how dumb we are (video)

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Google's Turing doodle celebrates his genius, reminds us how dumb we are

This week sees many corners of the globe celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing. A man whose contribution to the worlds of tech and gadgets is immeasurable -- a sentiment not lost on Google. Today, geeks and norms worldwide will be waking up to possibly the most complex doodle to date. Can you set the machine and spell out "Google"? If you can, you'll be sent off to lots more information about the man himself. This isn't the only thing Mountain View's done to keep his legacy alive, having previously helped Bletchley Park raise funds to purchase (and display) Turing's papers, and more recently helping curators at London's Science Museum with its Codebreaker - Alan Turing's Life and Legacy exhibition. If you haven't already, head to Google.com and pop your logic hat on, and if you get stuck, head past the break for a helpful video.

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Google's Turing doodle celebrates his genius, reminds us how dumb we are (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google goes Moogle, celebrates Moog’s birthday with interactive doodle

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Google goes Moogle, celebrates Moog's birthday with interactive doodle

It's time to surrender another afternoon to an interactive Google doodle. The search engine has outdone itself in celebration of the late-Bob Moog's birthday. The electronic music pioneer was born on May 23rd, 1934. Seeing as how the anniversary isn't until tomorrow, the doodle hasn't actually hit our Google front page. Thanks to the magic of timezones, however, you can check it out on some of the company's many international sites, as our colleagues at Engadget Japanese pointed out. Google's really outdone itself here, you can play the synth doodle by tapping on the keys with your cursor, or by hitting the numbers on your keyboard. Naturally, there are plenty of knobs to fiddle with, and you can also record your musical experiments for posterity. Get switched-on with the music awesomeness in the source link below.

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Google goes Moogle, celebrates Moog's birthday with interactive doodle originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 May 2012 14:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Doodle celebrates Gideon Sundback, unzips knowledge about your favorite wearables

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We've covered no shortage of wearable gizmos over the years here at Engadget -- in fact, we've given 'em their own category -- but we most certainly haven't spent enough time praising one of the pioneers of the segment. Thanks to a highly pleasing Google Doodle, we're given the perfect chance to take a harder look at one Gideon Sundback, the electrical engineer responsible for developing the zipper. It's been called a "fly," prominently featured in an Outkast song and positively shunned on the Snuggie, and it's also a huge, huge part of worldwide culture. For those looking to learn more about the man, the myth and the mystery, head on down to the Wikipedia link below; if you just want to unzip your browser, well... click here.

Google Doodle celebrates Gideon Sundback, unzips knowledge about your favorite wearables originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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