Google has revamped its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions.
A new function, the Knowledge Graph, will make the site’s algorithms act more human
, the site said in a blog post.
The feature will at first be available to US-based users, but will be rolled out globally in due course — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twitter has told the BBC it now wants to work closer with government and policymakers in the UK.
The site has revealed that there are over 10 million active tweeters across the nation.
The site’s UK general manager Tony Wang said it is a priority to protect and defend
the voice of those users — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A paralysed man has regained limited use of his hand after pioneering surgery to bypass damage to his spinal cord.
His injury meant his brain could not talk
to his hand, meaning all control was lost.
Surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine re-wired his nerves to build a new route between hand and brain.
He can now feed himself and can just about write.
The 71-year-old man was involved in a car accident in June 2008. His spinal cord was damaged at the base of the neck and he was unable to walk.
While he could still move his arms, he had lost the ability to pinch or grip with either of his hands — via BBC News
Parking Squid
by artist Susan Robb is a tentacular squid sculpture and bike rack. The squid is currently installed at the Seattle Centre. In October it will be moved to a permanent home on a Seattle street — via Laughing Squid
This is a limited edition Titanium piece to 300 pieces worldwide with a unique U-BOAT crown that pulls outwards at 90 degrees. The Crown locks into place with a level positioned at 5 o’clock. The strap is cordovan leather and the watch comes in a box with a magnifying glass — via Watchismo Times
For someone who doesn’t like stock Vincents, Jeff Decker builds a mighty fine Black Lightning. He’s a sculptor as well as a bike builder, and his eye for a line is evident with this beautiful salt racer. As these exclusive Horst Roesler shots reveal, Decker has managed to make the Vincent look fast even when it’s standing still on the Bonneville salt flats.
Decker has received some flak over this bike from Vincent purists. But his Black Lightning is not one of the 30-odd bona fide factory bikes. He assembled it using period-correct salvaged parts supplied by luminaries such as Marty Dickerson and Mel Helde, Jr, who was Rollie Free’s mechanic. And Decker has nothing to hide: this bike really is a cobbled-together Frankenstein that I’m not ashamed of
— via Bike EXIF
It’s surprising that we don’t see more DR650 customs around. This one is a new release fromDeus Bali, and their logic in choosing the bike is impeccable: The DR650 is a simple big motor and frame. It’s probably the biggest single-cylinder four stroke out there. The bike is very adaptable—once you strip off all the plastic, you find a frame and engine that is prime for customising. They have power. They look great when stripped back and done up, and they’re fun as hell to ride
— via Bike EXIF
Westmead Hospital Emergency Department, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
There’s another mining boom you may have missed. It too involves paying young people six-figure salaries in their first jobs, and exploring deeper for resources that may have been previously overlooked. But it’s not about driving trucks or digging holes. It’s about building algorithms and crunching facts and numbers. It’s mining for data.
Big data is the new business black. It’s a catch-all phrase for the billions of transactions and other bits of information about their customers, suppliers and operations logged by businesses and governments the world over every day. Yesterday’s storage problem has become today’s strategic asset. Turns out there’s gold in them thar files.
This is the biggest industry that people are only now starting to talk about,
says Anthony Goldbloom, a 28-year-old former Reserve Bank of Australia statistician who has moved his start-up data analytics business, Kaggle, to Silicon Valley where NASA is among its clients. The whole place is big data mad. Industries like banking, insurance, and increasingly pharmaceuticals are competing on the back of predictive models that get built [by mining data].
Enterprises are using data analysis not just to improve their everyday business processes, but also to build predictive models of consumer behaviour. Retailers, telcos, airlines, hotels, healthcare and credit card companies are among those with information-rich customer data. In Australia only really leading companies have realised this as an opportunity
, Goldbloom says. To his knowledge, Telstra, Myer, the University of Melbourne and the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority are among those known to have applied large-scale data analysis to their operations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Before Hogarth Architects could renovate and transform this stunning South Kensington, London apartment, they had to rewind the space back to an earlier version. A false ceiling and add-on room partition had to be removed to open up the living area and reveal its original grand scale.
Due to the building being listed as historical, the cornices and fireplace surrounds could not be altered. But that small restriction would not stop an incredible transformation from taking place — via Dornob
Gyani Maiya Sen, a 75-year-old woman from western Nepal, can perhaps be forgiven for feeling that the weight of the world rests on her shoulders.
She is the only person still alive in Nepal who fluently speaks the Kusunda language. The unknown origins and mysterious sentence structures of Kusunda have long baffled linguists.
As such, she has become a star attraction for campaigners eager to preserve her dying tongue.
Madhav Prasad Pokharel, a professor of linguistics at Nepal’s Tribhuwan University, has spent a decade researching the vanishing Kusunda tribe.
Professor Pokharel describes Kusunda as a language isolate
, not related to any common language of the world.
There are about 20 language families in the world,
he said, among them are the Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic group of languages.
Kusunda stands out because it is not phonologically, morphologically, syntactically and lexically related to any other languages of the world
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Hindenburg over Boston Common, 1936 — via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive
Bass guitarist Donald Duck
Dunn, who played with Booker T and the MGs, has died in Tokyo aged 70.
The MGs were the house band for Stax Records, and Dunn can be heard on songs such as Otis Redding’s Respect and Sam and Dave’s Hold On, I’m Comin’.
He was in Japan for a series of concerts, and had played two shows on Saturday night.
His friend and fellow musician Steve Cropper, who was on the same tour, said Dunn had died in his sleep.
Today I lost my best friend,
Cropper wrote on his Facebook page. The World has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live.
Miho Harasawa, a spokeswoman for Tokyo Blue Note, the last venue Dunn played, confirmed he died alone early Sunday. She had no further details — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Villa Benedetti space age six-bedroom house in Ascoli Piceno, Marche, southern Italy, is the future, as seen from the space age 1970s. It was a custom build for (and we think by) the artist Mariano Benedetti, located within an old estate dating back to the nineteenth century and, as you can see from the images on this page, hardly touched since it was built in those crazy times. This a a time tunnel.
If you want it, get in touch with the agent, You’ll need to find something approaching €900,000 to get ownership of this place — via WowHaus
The project was to do a comic page and cover. I had doodled the original sketch for this page awhile ago during another comic page project and I love the connection between deep space and deep sea so i was excited to go about it — via deviantART
In April 2012 Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) surprised the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro by playing Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The flash mob was created in collaboration with Radio Klassisk. All music was performed and recorded in the metro.
The idea behind House 11 x 11 [Titus Bernhard Architekten] was to design an apparently compact house of homogeneous materials, with a low external surface but as large a usable area as possible, a house that serves a family as an inhabitable sculpture and shows its exterior as an image of the inner organisation — via ArchDaily
The Bulova Marine Star [96B125] has a dial that is primarily white with slashes of red and black subtly mixed in. It has a 44mm (11mm thick) Stainless steel or titanium case and 22mm bracelet. Quartz movement with date display and GMT hand, mineral crystal and 30m water resistance — via Wrist Watch Review
Reverse Parthenogenesis is a pitch-black comedy short written and directed by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and starring Amber Benson and Adam Busch
If there’s a surefire way to improve the looks of the average motorcycle, it’s by tidying up the back end. And this Bonneville, from the Argentinian builder CMP Project, is a textbook example. Careful fabrication and a custom-fitted seat have given Triumph’s mainstay roadster a new stance and a new look — one that’s retro and purposeful in equal measure — via Bike EXIF
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