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Queeniey Corliss

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 technology review group REVIEW: Will 3D tech take Lytro mainstream?

started by Queeniey Corliss on 19 Dec 13 no follow-up yet
Cahrla Green

The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review: Online banking taking hold in US and UK, but secu... - 1 views

Consumers in the U.S. and the UK are increasingly adopting mobile and online banking, according to a 2014 survey by Cognitive Biometrics Firm BioCatch. In both countries, the survey reveals that m...

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started by Cahrla Green on 05 May 15 no follow-up yet
Enzo Brocato

How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future - 1 views

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How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future

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  • Enzo Brocato on 28 Jan 14
     
    http://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
Queeniey Corliss

The Corliss Technology Review Group: Protect yourself from online fraud this festive se... - 1 views

A new report by the European Consumer Centre Network (ECC-Net) takes a look at the scams faced by consumers when shopping online. The report focuses on fraud in cross-border e-commerce and what co...

the corliss technology review group Protect yourself from online fraud this festive season

started by Queeniey Corliss on 11 Dec 13 no follow-up yet
Queeniey Corliss

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 Bitcoin price tumbles after warning from Chinese central bank

started by Queeniey Corliss on 13 Dec 13 no follow-up yet
Queeniey Corliss

Windows Phone 8.1 Corliss Group Tech Review - 1 views

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Corliss Group Tech Review Windows Phone 8.1 Microsoft's mobile OS

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  • Queeniey Corliss on 22 Apr 14
     
    Android, iOS, Windows Phone. Each of these mobile platforms had to start somewhere, and none were anywhere near perfect on the first try. Fortunately, each OS gets better with every iteration until, at some point, it all just clicks. Arguably, Windows Phone just came of age with its latest update, version 8.1. Even before today, Windows Phone only had a few big holes remaining and indeed, 8.1 appears to fill those gaps. In particular, the OS now has a fancy notification center in addition to those signature Live Tiles; the keyboard now allows for swipe gestures; and last but not least, it now has Cortana, a virtual assistant to take on Siri, Google Now and Samsung S Voice. The 8.1 update is a fairly significant one, and I got the opportunity to take it for a spin ahead of the official developer preview's launch. It may not be perfect yet, but it's clear Windows Phone has finally grown up. Cortana Windows Phone included a search option from the beginning, and though it was useful at the time, rivals like Siri, S Voice and Google Now have quickly turned the tide, rendering Microsoft first "voice assistant" completely obsolete. Thankfully, the 8.1 update introduces a personal assistant named Cortana to help bring Windows Phone into the modern era. Named after Master Chiefs trusty AI sidekick in Halo, Cortana is designed to help you do whatever you do on a phone. Think: scheduling appointments, alerting you to upcoming flights, telling you the weather, offering up directions, dictating messages, opening apps and adjusting settings. She even tells jokes and responds in humorous ways to (most) silly questions. Those are all givens these days, so let's instead move on to the more unusual things she can do.
Queeniey Corliss

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...

Our privacy is on the line in age of big data Corliss Tech Review Group

started by Queeniey Corliss on 08 May 14 no follow-up yet
Andrea Amor

Corliss Tech Review Group: Samsung Fined for Paying People to Criticize HTC's Products - 1 views

If you are planning to buy a new smartphone or laptop, you look up internet reviews and customer ratings to check out what device is best for you. But remember not to always believe everything you ...

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started by Andrea Amor on 02 Nov 13 no follow-up yet
Hannah Minske

Two lighter laptops for the heavier workload - 2 views

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Two lighter laptops for the heavier workload

started by Hannah Minske on 29 Jan 14 no follow-up yet
Joshwayne Lain

Corliss Tech Review Group: Over 10 mn BBM downloads on rival phones in 24 hrs. of launch - 1 views

According to Canadian handset maker BlackBerry, its popular chat application BBM for rival Android-based handsets and iPhones has witnessed over 10 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its re...

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started by Joshwayne Lain on 31 Oct 13 no follow-up yet
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