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“Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity
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March 31st, 2009 11:59:59 pm
Introducing CADIE
Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.
For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and [...]

Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by your internet connection. From public WiFi to smartphones equipped with 3G, from mobile broadband cards to fledgling in-flight wireless on airplanes, Internet access is becoming more and more ubiquitous — but there are still [...]

Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its Web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network.
Google believes almost religiously in cloud computing, the idea that computer applications and data live on the Internet rather than on PCs. But there are [...]

A lot of people have (including me) have been facing a series of crashes when using the ‘Show Current Music Track’ feature of Google Talk and Winamp (5.531 in my case). I Googled and found that there were a lot of solutions that did not work, including one from the folks at Google itself which [...]

Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome versions Chrome/0.2.149.30 and Chrome/0.2.149.29 :
“The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based denial of service which can be [...]

Taiwanese handset major High Tech Computer is planning to launch the Android platform-powered phone (popularly referred to as the Google phone) in India this December.
The price, however, will be higher than the US debut tag of around Rs 8,200 ($179).
Ajay Sharma, country manager, HTC (India), told Business Standard: “We would prefer a mobile operator tie-up to [...]

The soon-to-be announced, first-ever Google Android phone will be priced at $200 with a two-year contract, according to a blog post on TechCrunch.
The tech blog said an “insider” had confirmed the $200 price tag, which is reasonable considering that AT&T is selling the iPhone 3G for the subsidized price of $199. That said, it’s still about [...]

Street View endows Google Maps with a driver’s-eye view of the world, and now people actually on the street will be able to use it, too.
The company announced a new version of its Google Maps for Mobilesoftware that includes support for Street View, as well as walking directions and reviews of businesses. Google said the new [...]

There’s really nothing worse than sending out an important e-mail with mention of an attachment then forgetting to actually attach the file that goes with it. To that end, a brilliant new Gmail labs feature is an opt-in nagger that will give you a warning pop-up if you try to send without a file and have used [...]