In an era when cars drive themselves and algorithms predict traffic, the robot as a guardian figure is rising: 'Bots are being used in Japan to measure radiation from crippled nuclear reactors, and the video games rating board is using automated systems to decide what rating a game gets. READ»
Tuesday, March 2, 2011: Time for Apple to reveal the iPad 2. But there's also plenty of other news, so let us help you tackle the early stuff, with iFive.READ»
In a blog posting late yesterday Google announced it had tweaked its search algorithms--trying to improve its ranking accuracy, and affecting trillions of search queries. It's good for Google, but it may actually be terrible for a number of other businesses.READ»
Netflix's grassroots competition to best its recommendation algorithm was a bit popularity booster for the company--but thanks to concerns over privacy (backed up by one troubling example), the company has decided to kill the ...READ»
In the rock-paper-scissors game of life, nature beats nurture, and here's the proof: A hook-up in Spain between geeks and the military has begot an algorithm for troops' battlefield maneuvers based on the behavior of ant ...READ»
If Google had a dollar for every competitor that was hyped to defeat it, the search giant would be worth a hundred billion. And well, it is. Live Search, Cuil, Mahalo, whatever--Google only feels luckier as the field grows. ...READ»
