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Facebook to Introduce Hashtags — And That’s a Double-Edged Sword for Twitter
The pros and cons of being ripped off.
The $56 Million Man: Yahoo Confirms Hiring of Google’s De Castro as COO
Yes, that’s a lot of dough for the multi-lingual sales exec.
Take a Note: Typing With No Hands
Use the microphone icon on your virtual keyboard to dictate accurate texts, Tweets, emails and more.
Woody Speaks Mandarin: Disney Brings Chinese-Language Apps to iPad
到无穷大和超越！ (To infinity and beyond!)
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The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google’s massive collection of scanned books.Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, as Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video)
It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.
Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!
Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.
Humanity's Last Hope at "Jeopardy" Is Named Rush Holt
It took a congressman who’s also a nuclear scientist and former “Jeopardy” champion in his own right to do what Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter failed to do: Beat IBM’s Watson.
Done With Silly Game Shows, IBM's Watson Finds a Job
Having licked the puny humans on TV games shows, the Watson supercomputer, or at least one like it, will be put to work on ways to help doctors make better decisions.