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Bookmark Anatomy of an AI System
A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces around its upper rim. It is…

February 26 2023, 1:51pm | Comments
Bookmark There's Now a Search Engine for Every Animated GIF From GeoCities |…
Remember the good old days™? When Bill Clinton was President, when average monthly rent was around $645, and when Yahoo’s acquisition of GeoCities shot the dream of personal websites into the…

October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments
Bookmark UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident…
Looks like the geniuses who run UC Davis never Googled the words “Streisand Effect.

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Google Searches Put Consumers at Risk - The Atlantic
Google knows the questions that people wouldn’t dare ask aloud, and it silently offers reams of answers. But it is a mistake to think of a search engine as an oracle…

January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments
Bookmark Google’s Earth
“I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments
Tumblr Turing Collages

May 4 2013, 8:55am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Google Dominion

November 11 2012, 3:41pm | Comments
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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second,…
Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks…

April 25 2012, 4:49pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
From Scroll to Screen

September 16 2011, 6:52am | Comments
Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments
Bookmark The dark side of the internet
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments
Bookmark Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars
Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No…

September 17 2009, 2:24am | Comments

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