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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 ...
Google’s still feeling all announcey, with the addition of something called “living stories” to its repertoire of announcements over the past few days. The project looks like the Google News topic pages got drunk and shagged Wikipedia, and the result is a hybrid results page that condenses the hell out of results to give users an [...]
The US Supreme Court shouldn't weaken the patent protections that fuel technological progress.
We show you Boxee's device for watching Web-based media on your TV, Vevo gets set to do what MTV should have done ages ago, and Microsoft launches a Wikipedia-like site for the Average Jane or Joe.
Image via Wikipedia ARDEN HILLS, Minnesota--Transoma Medical Inc. has become the latest medical device start-up to shut its doors. The Arden Hills-based company, which was developing a device to remotely monitor the electrical activity of a patient's heart, could not raise additional money from investors, sources said. As a result, Transoma closed its human applications operations and will ...
Image Caption: The woolly mammoth was one of the large mammals that became extinct in North America at the onset of the Younger Dryas approx. 13,000 years ago. Credit: Image of Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia courtesy Wikipedia Commons
Google is teaming up with The Washington Post and The New York Times to produce Living Stories, a Wikipedia-esque Labs project that will house information on a given news topic on one, continually updated Web page.
Image via Wikipedia WILMETTE, Illinois -- A Northwestern University start-up has received a $2.5 million investment to commercialize technology that employs gold nanoparticles to help treat cardiovascular disease. AuraSense LLC, founded by nanotechnology superstar and Northwestern Professor Chad Mirkin , is developing a technology that uses gold nanoparticles to sweep cholesterol out of a ...
Ever tried creating a Wikipedia entry for yourself only to have it promptly deleted because you're not famous? Well, on Microsoft Research's beta EntityCube site, everyone is famous.
Ron Livingston, who starred in ABC's short-lived sci-fi series Defying Gravity , is suing someone who persists in altering Livingston's Wikipedia page to say he's in a gay relationship.
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.
The company's researchers have launched EntityCube, an automated search tool that aims to pull together biographical information on even the not so famous.
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake launched a new startup this Spring called Hunch and today announced that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has joined the company's board of directors. Hunch is a social Q&A service that, in effect, says, "people who are like you and who have preferences like yours tend to be happiest with the following answer to that question you're asking." The company reports ...
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 ...
Ron Livingston, best known for roles in Office Space and Sex and the City, is suing over continual Wikipedia edits claiming the actor is gay and in a long-term relationship with a man. Livingston married a woman named Rosemarie DeWitt earlier this year, but a dedicated Wikipedia editor changes the entry frequently with claims that Livingston [...]
The blog Zero Geography has created a heatmap illustrating the total number of Wikipedia articles tagged to each nation that reveals surprising facts about the content, and oversights, of the online encyclopedia.
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