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Corliss Group Review Heart Bleed Bug Test: Three Things One Can Do Yahoo, Facebook, Gma... - 1 views
The Heartbleed bug isn’t a “virus,” but a security error. The bug can be tested on Github and a website was set up to test out whether the bug affects a certain website, in...
How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future - 1 views
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Enzo Brocato on 28 Jan 14http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523846/how-a-database-of-the-worlds-knowledge-shapes-googles-future/ Compiling a giant database of all the facts in the world could help Google's future products understand you better. For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years. That's why in 2010 Google acquired Metaweb, a company building a database intended to give computers the ability to understand the world. Two years later the company's technology resurfaced as the Knowledge Graph (see "Corliss Tech Review Group: http://thecorlissreviewgroup.com/"). John Giannandrea, vice president of engineering at Google and a Metaweb cofounder, says that will lead to Google's future products being able to truly understand the people who use them and the things they care about. He told MIT Technology Review's Tom Simonite how a data store designed to link together all the knowledge on Earth might do that. What is the Knowledge Graph? It's a distillation of what Google knows about the world. An analogy I often use is maps. For a maps product you have to build a database of the real world and know there are things called streets, rivers, and countries in the physical world. That's creating a symbolic structure for the physical world; the Knowledge Graph does that for the world of ideas and common sense. We have entities in the knowledge graph for foods, recipes, products, ideas in philosophy or history, and famous people. We can have relationships between them, so we can say these two people are married or this place is in this country or we can say this movie is related to this person. How does that make a difference to Google's Web search? We've gone up a level from just talking about the words to talking about what the thing actually is. In crawling and indexing documents we can now have an understanding of what the document is about. If the docum
The Corliss Technology Review Group, REVIEW: Will 3D tech take Lytro mainstream? - 1 views
When the world's first light-field camera, Lytro, launched in Australia last year it was immediately greeted with a slew of scathing reviews. Review, after review warned consumers about replacing ...
The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review: New Algorithm Finds the Most Beautiful - 1 views
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The way we navigate in cities has been revolutionized in the last few years by the advent of GPS mapping programs. Enter your start and end location and these will give you the shortest route from A to B. That's usually the best bet when driving, but walking is a different matter. Often, pedestrians want the quietest route or the most beautiful but if they turn to a mapping application, they'll get little help. That could change now thanks to the work of Daniele Quercia at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona, Spain, and a couple of pals. These guys have worked out how to measure the "beauty" of specific locations within cities and then designed an algorithm that automatically chooses a route between two locations in a way that maximizes the beauty along it. "The goal of this work is to automatically suggest routes that are not only short but also emotionally pleasant," they say. Quercia and co begin by creating a database of images of various parts of the center of London taken from Google Street View and Geograph, both of which have reasonably consistent standards of images. They then crowdsourced opinions about the beauty of each location using a website called UrbanGems.org. Each visitor to UrbanGems sees two photographs and chooses the one which shows the more beautiful location. That gives the team a crowdsourced opinion about the beauty of each location. They then plot each of these locations and their beauty score on a map which they use to provide directions. The idea here is that the user enters a start and end location and an algorithm then finds the most beautiful route, rather than the shortest one. It does this by searching through every possible route, adding the beauty scores for each and choosing the one that ranks highest.
The Corliss Group Tech Review: Bank hackers steal millions worldwide - 1 views
The banking sector has been a frequent target for hackers nowadays. As much as US$1 billion were stolen from banks and other financial companies worldwide in about two years, wherein it is consider...
The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review: Mobile malware and operating system vulnerabilities - 1 views
9% of large organisations face security, hacking, phishing scams and internet fraud in mobile devices Industry experts to share insights helping businesses defend from cyberattacks during security ...
The Corliss Technology Review Group, Tech Review: Be winter-ready with these apps - 1 views
Last week's snow, freezing rain and frigid temperatures were just a warm-up for winter, which doesn't start officially until Saturday. These apps will get you ready for the season by helping you tr...
The Corliss technology review group, Microsoft disrupts online fraud botnet Zero Access - 0 views
London: Microsoft and law enforcement agencies have reportedly disrupted one of the world's largest botnets, ZeroAccess that triggered online fraud. The botnet is a network of computers infected...
The Corliss Technology Review Group, Bitcoin price tumbles after warning from Chinese c... - 1 views
The People's Bank of China has issued a warning that the currency is not legally protected and has no 'real meaning'. The Chinese central bank has warned the country's financial institutions no...
The Corliss Technology Review Group, Rare material shortages could put gadgets at risk - 1 views
Modern technology is too reliant on rare materials whose scarcity could drastically set back innovation, a new report has warned. It suggested that as more and more devices are manufactured, supp...
The Corliss Technology Review Group, Avoid Christmas fraud - 1 views
Online retailers are wishing themselves a Snappy Christmas, with predictions this will be their best year yet. However, with the online boom comes the threat of internet scams. More Australians ...
Corliss Tech Review Group: Our privacy is on the line in age of big data - 1 views
The White House issued a warning last week: Big data may be harmful to our privacy. Give the White House credit. It is trying to keep an important issue before the eyes of the public. OK, this one...
The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review: GE Device Measures the Calories on Your Plate - 1 views
Self-tracking devices like the Fitbit do a fair, if imperfect, job at measuring how much you move and then inferring how many calories you've burned in a day. But they don't measure how many calori...
The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review: Logitech K480 Keyboard Works with Anything You Own - 1 views
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It's a truth as universal as it is annoying; if you want all your devices to work with a specific keyboard, well, you'll probably need either one for each, sign on for precisely one device ecosystem, or get used to swiping in words. Travelers in particular are driven insane by this problem, so Logitech decided, quite cleverly, to solve it with the K480. Swiss Army Keyboard There are two problems with modern portable keyboards. The first is, as we noted, device compatibility. Ask anybody who's had to install drivers just to get a basic keyboard to work, the various device ecosystems out there don't play well with each other and seemingly want to drive you insane. Logitech solves this with some clever design. You can switch between three different places to send your words, so that regardless of whether you're all Apple, or a mix of Apple, Chrome, and Windows, you'll be able to use the keyboard and get the point across. Basically, if it uses Bluetooth, you're all set to type. At The Trough The second problem is keeping all your stuff organized; you've got your phone over here, your tablet over there, and your laptop in front of you… and many keyboards want to be docked solely at your tablet. How does Logitech solve this? Simple: It puts a trough at the top of the keyboard that can easily be used to stand up both your tablet and your phone, and to type away at both of them with ease. A Keyboard For The Multitasker Multitasking, or at least sorting through your various tasks properly, can be a profoundly annoying experience, and Logitech deserves credit for looking at how we actually use our gadgets and creating a keyboard that fits in with them. If that's something you need, it starts at just $50.