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Computer prepares to read like humans

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The Never-Ending Language system runs 24*7 to extract facts from text found in web pages to improve its reading competence. Can computers learn to read? A Carneige Melon University research…

Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie quits

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Microsoft has announced that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is leaving the company. “With our progress in services and the cloud now full speed ahead in all aspects of our…

Glimpse of new-age cyberwars

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The dust may have settled over the Stuxnet virus but experts caution that such worms portend the beginnings of sophisticated cyberwars When the Stuxnet worm was recently reported to have…

Tug ‘O’ war for Internet freedom

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Who will own the Internet? The question is an oxymoron since no one owns cyberspace. Online activists allege the scene could change if Google and Verizon have their way Link…

Instant Google

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The new search could play havoc with an advertisers Google Quality Score It will take a couple days before you see Google Instant but in this age of fast food,…

Pranav Mistry: Digital dreamer

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The youthful inventor of the “Sixth Sense” device has foreign governments and film-makers interested in his technology that binds the digital and the physical worlds. Twenty-nine-year-old Pranav Mistry may be…

Pads to soften Indian metro rail noise

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The Metro rail project of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to use elastomeric pads to control the noise levels of running trains. Mumbai is a city with a…

Twitter users become newspaper publishers

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It’s primarily catching the fancy of Gen X and Y. Hundreds of those with Twitter users are now becoming online publishers — creating their own newspapers with either ‘The Twitter…