Tuesday links
YouTube users now upload 100 hours of video every minuteToday [Sunday] is YouTube’s eighth birthday, and to mark the occasion Google is revealing new statistics that underline what a cultural sensation its video site has become. Most staggeringly, over 100 hours of video are now uploaded to YouTube each and every minute.—The Verge Helper Robots [...]
Where is Google search going?
Google is the predominant search engine—in many ways, it controls what we see on the Internet. It is the main information source for vast numbers of people. So what Google does affects us all. The world of computing is changing rapidly as mobile platforms proliferate. Also the sheer amount of data is leading to new [...]
Monday links
A picture of Earth through timeToday [last Thursday], we’re making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time. Working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME, we’re releasing more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken [...]
How Google Glass works
The experimental wearable device from Google called Google Glass was discussed in a previous post. Google has just released the specs for the device. If you are curious how Google Glass works, here is an infographic that explains it: Source: Brille-Kaufen.org
Monday links
Without human input augmentation, algorithms alone are making us dumberAre algorithms actually making society dumber? Yes, says at least one big data expert. We can’t throw computers at our problems until we better define those problems though human input—At GigaOM, Kevin C. Tofel discusses the contention of big data expert Eric Berlow that reliance on [...]
What Google Glass is and how it works
There’s been a lot of talk about an experimental piece of wearable hardware from Google called Google Glass. It is a device that looks like a pair of glasses and projects the equivalent of a screen from a smartphone into your field of vision. You can walk around and have a stream of data about [...]
Modern exploration
Source: Bonkers World
