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Wolfram Alpha 'Knowledge Engine' is Like a Modern Farmer's Almanac

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created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, there's a lot of hype and skepticism surrounding the latest "Google rival," a so-called search engine named Wolfram Alpha. In the near future, anyone with Internet access will be ...


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Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking ...


Google QR codes to appear in a store window near you

Google QR codes to appear in a store window near you (w/ Video)

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google recently sent out 100,000 stickers to selected US businesses for use on their storefront windows. The stickers have the Google Maps logo and a QR code that can be scanned by smart phone ...


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Google Chrome extensions to be officially released

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is expected to release its Extensions Gallery for general users of the new Chrome browser this week, possibly at the Add-On Conference on browser extensions to be held on December 11, ...


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Report claims Wikipedia losing editors in droves

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The findings of a Spanish study claiming that Wikipedia's editors are leaving at an alarming rate have been refuted by the Wikimedia Foundation and by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.


Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

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created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (74) | comments 45

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...


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Google's SPDY will speed up downloads

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...


Google's "Street View" is created by still photographs taken by specially-equipped vehicles

Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.


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Six net neutrality principles proposed

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 8

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. voted last week to start a process to formulate rules that could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to uphold six principles that would preserve ...


Internet set for change with non-English addresses (AP)

Internet set for change with non-English addresses

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31

(AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages ...


Whose Internet is it, anyway?

Whose Internet is it, anyway?

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, broke with precedent by proposing federal rules that enforce Net neutrality -- the principle that ...


Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks (AP)

Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.


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Facebook Lite On its Way

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The social networking site Facebook has begun testing a simpler, no-frills alternative to its regular interface. The cleaner, uncluttered interface is particularly aimed at entry-level users ...


Congress weighs landmark change in Web ad privacy

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created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

(AP) -- The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages - all of this can give companies ...


Hackers attack Twitter, Facebook also slows down (AP)

Hacker attack shuts down Twitter, Facebook also slows down (Update 2)

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(AP) -- Hackers on Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems.