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or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
With Watson

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of...
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... That is, some of us do. Others use data.

Here's how the air, ground, data, landline, cellphone, a... looks from space in Great Britain, one of the busiest co... The BBC's Britain from Above documentary took satellite ... mixed it with 3D GPS data to create these breathtaking h... pictures an

Magic debug values
Magic debug values are specific values written to memory ...
Since it is very unlikely, although possible, that a 32- ...
Famous and common examples include:
... in a live environment to reduce errors[citation needed].

102 function LoadMessageByUri(uri) 103 { 104 //dump("XXX... + uri + " vs " + gCurrentDisplayedMessage + "\n"); 105 i... gCurrentDisplayedMessage) 106 { 107 dump("fix this, get ... and the nsIMsgFolder from the uri...\n"); 108 /* 109 var... RDF.GetReso

AjaxPatterns.org began as a collection of design pattern... basis of the book, Ajax Design Patterns, and grew into a... wiki on anything and everything Ajax.

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal info... find whatever you're looking for.

N2 Wiki
This is the home of the Talis Platform Community.
The Talis Platform is an environment for building next g ...
This Wiki is the starting point for Platform documentati ...
... ators to exchange common snippets of store configuration

The majority of British children will soon be growing up... are struggling “below the breadline” because of welf... and wage freezes, the Government is warned today.
Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nation’s 13m youn ...

Most social networks out there brag about the hundreds o... friends they have online. But, who wants to spend their ... updates from hundreds of millions of "online friends"? Y...
That's where Infinite Monkeys comes in. Our self-service ...
Now, you ca

Q I have a website - can I display your calendar (or it...
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Absolutely! Interaction-Design.org is founded on princip ...

LED Coffee Table
LED Coffee Table
OK, this is one of the most unique coffee tables I’ve ...

Passive amplifiers have been doing their acoustic trick ... Victrola was cutting edge. It’s pretty simple, really⮮. noise on the working end of a horn and you’re likely t... bit easier in the direction it’s pointed in. The conce...
This eco-am

Paul Vermeesch’s Star Wars Relativity model is a 1-foo... scenes from classic Star Wars settings.
Six months in the making, I present my largest creat ...

Relief: 3D interactive maps
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Called a "scalable actuated shape display", this project ...
Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is abl ...
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In late October Jeff Atwood wrote about The Problems Wit...
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Making browsers faster: Resource Packages
A proposal to make downloading web page resources faster ...

FORTUNE -- The key tech battle of the current decade wil... we wear. Technology is crawling out of our bags and pock... bodies in the form of wearables. An increasing number of... finding their homes on our wrists, necks, ears and eyes.... and the sma

Thomas is 70 years old. He lives a quiet life alone. Out... health, his children send him gifts to track his habits ... smart fork that counts calories, a smart cane that count... bed that monitors his sleep. But Thomas soon finds he do... told what t

Today’s relentless email flood could steer you away fr... and even out of work entirely if you don’t learn defen... That sounds obvious until you hear that a British study ... all information workers respond to an e-mail within 60 m... That’s no

The godmother of British electronic music who helped to ... most recognisable TV theme tunes of all time and pioneer... through her work in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is to b... an inaugural one-day celebration of her work in Manchester.
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Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intellig... patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and... social kind of data analysis.

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project.

The map–territory relation—the relationship between ... object—is one of the lasting philosophical quandaries.
Coined by Alfred Korzybski, The map is not the territory ...

MaPit is our database and web service that maps postcode... current or past administrative area information and poly... United Kingdom. It has been rewritten from the ground up... PostGIS, providing us with a large array of improvements... a lovely ad

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.