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Introducing Custom Themes in Gmail

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Pick your favorite photo and make Gmail your own using custom themes. Whether you want to bask on a tropical island or simply reminisce about last year’s holiday with the family, you can now customize Gmail’s background.

The new A Google a Day on Google+ is here

Learn more: http://www.agoogleaday.com

Trivia with a twist. Search for answers, then challenge friends and climb the Google+ leaderboard. A Google A Day is the trivia game where searching for the answer on Google is not only allowed but encouraged. Play A Google a Day on Google+ by finding us in the Games section or by following the link from the original A Google a Day website.

New 3D imagery for Google Earth

Since 2006, we’ve had textured 3D buildings in Google Earth, and we’re excited to announce that we’ll begin adding 3D models to entire metropolitan areas to Google Earth in the near future.

Thanks to new imagery rendering techniques and computer vision, we’re able to create 3D cityscapes, complete with buildings, terrain and even landscaping, from 45-degree aerial imagery.

By the end of the year, we aim to have 3D coverage for metropolitan areas with a combined population of 300 million people.

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The new, larger version of the Internet: IPv6

google.com/ipv6 — Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and a founding father of the Internet, discusses the next version of the Internet, IPv6, and why we need it.

When the Internet launched operationally in 1983, no one ever dreamed that there might be billions of devices and users trying to get online. But like a telephone network that is running out of phone numbers, the current Internet is running out of IP addresses, and if we don’t roll out Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), we won’t have the room we need to grow and the Internet would become tangled, unsafe and unsustainable.