Amidst falling stock prices and a fleeing user base, Facebook introduced an upgraded search tool today – Graph Search, which will allow a more natural language search (e.g. search for “friends who like cats and UFOs” or “pictures taken on the beach in Mexico”). Mark Zuckerberg says “This is one of the coolest things we’ve…
Former search engine giant Lycos, has revealed that they are rolling out a new, proprietary search engine in 2013 in an attempt to regain its status as a (the) leading search engine. The current Lycos search engine is powered by Yahoo but the new version will signal a return to its roots. Lycos CEO Rob…
Amazon’s US-East Region 1 data center is a popular choice for their ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) service because it’s cheap and typically is the first data center to get new services when Amazon rolls them out. It also tends to be a headache for US-East customers who rely on its CDN delivery network. On Christmas…
An Instagram user asked for pictures and tips on “sluts” in the Gothenburg, Sweden area and promised anonymity to anyone sending in pictures of the local school “whores”. In response, the user received more than 200 pictures of girls and boys aged 13 to 14, many accompanied with names and explicit descriptions of their alleged…
For the 12th year, Google has updated its Zeitgeist site for the year ending 2012, looking at the most popular search trends of the year. The results are based on 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages. And without further ado, here is Google’s top searches for 2012.
Bitcoin-Central has reached an agreement with French payment processor Acoba and France’s Credit Mutuel bank to become a payment service provider. This will allow Bitcoin-Central to function much like a bank. it’s the first exchange of the digital currency to be licensed to operate as a bank and function within the framework of European regulations.…
The White House has announced that they have started a Pinterest account (WhiteHouse44 – Obama is the 44th President, get it?) and will begin pinning on December 17, 2012. No word on whether or not a Snapchat account will follow. According to the White House, pins will range from “inspiring images and quotes to infographics…
South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world with an estimated 98% of the population connected with broadband Internet and 2/3 of the population owning smartphone devices. But being ultra-wired does have its drawbacks. Officials estimate that 160,000 children between the ages of 5 and 9 are addicted to the Internet.…
Real world tests of Google’s Fiber project, a high-speed ISP network installed in Kansas City, are beginning to arrive and the results are outstanding. Kansas City Google Fiber users can expect 700 Mbps down on hard-wired connections. One user reported that he BitTorrented Ubuntu in only 2 minutes. When will it arrive in your neighborhood?
Pheed, launched on August 10, 2012 and operating out of a rented six-acre mansion on Mulholland Drive near Hollywood, has hit 350,000 unique subscribers in only a few months. Several celebrities have already signed up for the service and why not – with Pheed they are allowed to charge for their content feeds or sell…
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