Defending the delay in his nation’s response to North Korean shell attacks, South Korean defence minister drew a surprising comparison with a computer game, saying “This isn’t StarCraft.”
NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
“… we’re excited to announce a new initiative to work with the OpenStreetMap project, a community of more than 320,000 people who have built high quality maps for every country on earth. Microsoft is providing access to our Bing Aerial Imagery for use in the OpenStreetMap project, and we have hired industry veteran Steve Coast to lead this effort.”
Nice move by Bing Maps.
“Die Behörden gehen von verschiedenen Bedrohungsszenarien für Deutschland aus. Das ist Panikmache. Und aus statistischen Gründen ziemlich unangebracht.” VON RANGA YOGESHWAR
“Adds nice Wikipedia donation banner to every single web page.”
Best extension ever!!!
“If you have a mobile device you know how annoying the Auto Correct feature can be. It changes words without rhyme or reason, and if you’re chatting with someone and hit “send” too quickly, it can really lead to some funny results.”
Programming with Natural Language Is Actually Going to Work.
If you’d asked me a few years ago, I would have said it was hopeless. That perhaps one could make toy examples, but that ultimately natural language just wouldn’t be up to the task of creating useful programs.
But then along came Wolfram|Alpha. In which we’ve been able to make free-form linguistics work vastly better than I ever thought possible.
“Apple also confirmed that Java SE 6 will continue to be available from Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard® and the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. Java SE 7 and future versions of Java for Mac OS X will be available from Oracle. “
“Our main objective is to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modeled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software. We are committed to the ideal of freely available, freely usable and re-usable open source hardware.”
Teleport to a random place in the world. A very cool hack of Google Maps street view.
Best bookmarklet ever. Turns your browser into a game of asteroids. It works great for vaporizing annoying ads. Try it out!
