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INet: Google adds email sobriety test
Google has acted to protect its users against a seemingly widespread problem with email: Once you’ve pressed the send button it’s out in the wild. And some times you might have written something you shouldn’t have send to that person.
Seemingly for many this phenomenon occurs more frequently at certain times of the week / day – let’s say late Friday night.
From now on you can setup your Gmail account that at…
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Fun: A Calculator built with LBP
A video of a small 8bit calculator build within the LittleBigPlanet world creation platform for the PlayStation 3. This is the emulation of an electronic calculator with 610 switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, 70 emitters and more implemented in the beta version of the creator.
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FSF: High Priority Free Software Projects
The Free Software Foundation has published a list of software projects that are considered high priority – “…that are important for increasing the adoption and use of free software and free software operating systems…“
The projects on the list are not maintained by the FSF but are entirely supported by the free software community…
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Tokyo: Charms against computer viruses
Japan is one of the leading high-tech places around the world but it’s also a country of traditions.
When visiting Tokyo many have a look-around the Akihabara quarter to see the latest gadgets and future computing tools that are often already available there in small series before hitting mass markets around the world.
Next time visiting Tokyo and when you bought some great new computing device in Akihabara, take it with you and visit nearby Kanda-Myojin Shinto shrine.
The shrine sells the faithful special IT prayer charms to ward off computer viruses. Visitors can also have their computers purified to protect them from common electronic ghosts and devils.
The “computer protection services” offered by the shrine have been popular for some time among…
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AI: Autonomous Helicopters teach themselves to Fly Stunts
Finally someone has adapted human learning approaches and used them within AI.
Called “apprenticeship learning” and build into AI Algorithms by Stanford University students, they created an autonomous helicopter system that learns to fly stunts by watching human pilots.
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Humor: Change your nationality with Google Chrome
Not even out a day as a Beta release Google’s new web browsers already has massive impact on people living in parts of Europe.
If your Belgium, Austrian, Danish, Dutch or from parts of the Czech Republic and Switzerland from now on you’re part of the Greater German Reich. Please send your passport to Google and…
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