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20 February 2008
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.
The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.
"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained.
"But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace...
15 February 2008
Starcom, Tacoda and comScore’s “Natural Born Clickers” findings suggest “the click is dead” as go-to measurement of effectiveness for brand-building display advertising campaigns
CHICAGO, February 12,2008 – Media agency Starcom USA, behavioral targeting network Tacoda, and digital consumer insight company comScore collaborated on a research study whose results call into question click-through rates as a primary source of accountability for Internet display advertising aimed at brand-building...
15 February 2008
We tried to give a heads-up in a couple places. The Toolbar beta 5 announcement on the Google blog mentioned “You’ll get suggestions instead of error pages: If you mistype a URL or a page is down, now the Toolbar will give you that familiar “Did you mean” with alternatives, like when you do a Google search.” And the John Mueller did an excellent run-down for webmasters when he talked about the Google toolbar beta on Google’s official webmaster blog. Here’s the part of John’s post that...
12 January 2008
Logitech on the up amidst Microsoft bid talk.
In the world of computer users, there are two types of mouse and keyboard users – those who prefer Microsoft and those who prefer Logitech. Oddly enough, Microsoft itself may prefer Logitech as stock traders speculated that the software giant would launch a takeover bid for the Swiss-based peripherals maker.
Shares of Logitech surged up to 12 percent based on the trader talk, despite comments from Logitech’s Daniel Borel expressing no desire to sell his stake in the company.
"I...
12 January 2008
The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era.
The KDE 4 Libraries have seen major improvements in almost all areas. The Phonon multimedia framework provides platform independent multimedia support to all KDE applications, the Solid hardware integration framework makes interacting with (removable) devices easier and provides tools for better power management.
The...
11 January 2008
The US Department of Homeland Security has sponsored a three year $1.24 million "Open Source Hardening Project.
This is a project launched to hunt for security bugs in open-source software, to review the code of 180 open source software projects used by developers of government websites and application developers.
The research was conducted by Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec. The results were shocking. All the examined software had a lot of security flaws. Since 2006 about 7,826 open source flaws in 250 projects were fixed.
11 January 2008
Online traffic to YouTube and other online video sites doubled last year compared with 2006.
Online traffic to YouTube and other online video sites doubled last year compared with 2006, as almost half of adult online users say they visited such sites, according to a research report released Wednesday.
According to a national phone survey done by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 48 per cent of more than 1,300 internet users surveyed between October and December 2007 said they visited a video-sharing site like YouTube during...
10 January 2008
The Google LatLong Blog announced they have updated Sky in Google Earth with new content, features and API integrations.
To see Google Sky, click "Switch to Sky" from the "view" drop-down menu in Google Earth, or click the Sky button on the Google Earth toolbar.
Here is a list of new features and content that can be found in the new Google Sky:
Earth & Sky Podcasts: Podcasts about stars, galaxies, planets and events coming up in the sky from the NPR program Earth and Sky.
Current Sky Events: Contains...
10 January 2008
The long-awaited and much-hyped Wikia Search, a project of Jimmy Wales' Wikia empire, launched on Monday to a chorus of jeers from Web 2.0 advocates and search experts.
Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia, had expressed optimism for a community-built search engine that could beat Google by allowing people to provide context, content, and ratings that no computer algorithm could match.
"Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet," Wales wrote on the Wikia Web site. "And we are making it open source. Wikia...
10 January 2008
Spammers have started abusing Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive service to host spam links, a security firm warned today.
McAfee Avert Labs trapped thousands of spam messages at the start of this week which included a link to the Microsoft service.
Clicking on the link redirects unwitting surfers to an online pharmacy service.
Windows Live SkyDrive is an online storage service launched in beta in August. Users can upload and share files with anyone via web links.
This latest spam campaign saw an HTML file uploaded with a redirect to an...
