Microsoft Does Something Cool

Andrew Price
Former Web Editor, GOOD.is

June 7, 2007 • 8:08 pm PDT
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Breaking news! It's called Photosynth. It's when sunlight, water and carbon dioxide make glucose and...

Just kidding. It's actually mindblowing new technology developed (or perhaps just bought) by Microsoft that has us trying to remember what Google released recently that was sorta neat.

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