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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is joining decision-making engine Hunch's board of directors and will serve as an advisor to the startup. Hunch was recently launched by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake as a platform to help users make decisions spanning a wide array of topics. To help users make their decisions, Hunch presents them with a brief series of questions that have been submitted by other ...
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that finding malicious code might have just become a little harder. Last week at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, security researchers Joshua Mason, Sam Small, Fabian Monrose, and Greg MacManus presented a method they developed to generate English shell code [PDF]. Using content from Wikipedia and other public works to train their ...
Wikipedia may be the fifth-most-popular website in the world, but most of those viewers come to look without adding or changing any of the content on the site. And if viewers stop contributing content, Wikipedia will cease to survive.
By the time Nick Andrews entered college, he already had a hit YouTube video under his belt and a Wikipedia page. Now, he is in the running for a national comedy competition.
The online encyclopedia's volunteers, who write, edit, and fact-check, are dropping out at a suddenly quickened pace, says The Wall Street Journal.
Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie...
The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even...
Image via Wikipedia ELYRIA, Ohio -- Invacare Inc. has appointed Charles Robb , a former senator and governor from Virginia, to its board of directors. Robb, a Democrat who represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2001, is scheduled to begin his term on Invacare's board on March 10, according to a statement from the home-health equipment maker. "As Invacare looks to maximize the ...
Wikipedia may have reached the upper limits of what can be done with crowdsourcing, according to a researcher in Spain.
The world is falling apart! Water is full of feces, debt is collossal, sex offenders are running rife, six-packs abs are a sham and no-one updates Wikipedia any more. A look at today's front pages...
Actor Ron Livingston sues the anonymous Wikipedia and Facebook prankster who is posting that Livingston is gay. The courts are likely to out the alleged vandal's identity.
The company's researchers have launched EntityCube, an automated search tool that aims to pull together biographical information on even the not so famous.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Ron Livingston is suing Wikipedia, saying the online encyclopedia's page about him incorrectly identifies him as gay.
That won’t surprise you, my little cyberknight; my darling digital warrior. You are a practiced and gleeful member of the brethren of the Net. Even if you tend Luddite, the following terms are likely still familiar to you: e-mail, IM, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia.
WikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
Flook welcomes departing Wikipedia editors
'' Spyro: Year of the Dragon '' is a platform game ...
