Walmart proves value of semantic search
As Google and others reconfigure themselves for a future based around semantic search, Walmart has quietly delivered its own case study. The US retail giant has revealed that its own Polaris engine...
View ArticleGoogle’s Star Trek dream leads it to planet Siri
Even when you are big as Google, it’s important to have a clear goal in mind, and as the search collosus continues to develop its Knowledge Graph in an attempt to bring semantic comprehension to its...
View ArticleEMI's hackathon discovers how to predict who will love a song
BackgroundThe record business’s famous ills have led to a profound period of retrenchment and self-examination, and even the allegedly stuffy, change-averse major record labels are prepared to try...
View ArticleEvernote & Moleskine: digitising handwritten content
There are a number of processes and experiences that do not transfer well to digital screens, as anyone who was left disheartened at their artistic skills after a round of DrawSomething will all too...
View ArticleLondon’s data flow visualised at the V&A
Designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda is taking over the V&A Museum with his latest piece, PRISM - a suspended irregular structure made from Japanese washi paper that depicts the capital’s...
View ArticleSemantic web now comes with illustrations as computer learns to identify...
Using a vast crowdsourced database of sketches, researchers at Brown University in Rhode Island and the Technical University of Berlin trained a computer to interpret a simple line drawing...
View ArticleE-commerce search has finally caught up with Google
Google’s efficiency has a lot to answer for; our experiences of search on other sites can leave us feeling disappointed and frustrated, especially when the engine returns zero results because, in our...
View ArticleOnline music service songle learns song structures
Created by Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute (AIST), Songle is a web-based music service that uses music-understanding to help user’s select different layers for a song to...
View ArticleLive healthier with Lark's new wristbands
Increasingly digital technology is presenting us with more inventive ways to augment our lives. This latest product from start-up Lark looks to offer personalised advice for your sleeping habits,...
View ArticleFrom connected limbs to mother-tracking, M2M is about to boom
The story of the growth of cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) networking to date has sometimes been a who-can-think-of-the-biggest-number competition. In August, a report predicted that there would be...
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Sifting for gold with a different type of sentiment analysis tool
As social media progresses and brands are becoming more adept with harnessing data, companies are increasingly measuring the conversations around them, and, inevitably, qualitative data has proven...
View ArticleBrain-activity reading headband will allow us to control technology with our...
The ability to control technology with your thoughts is a closer reality than you may think.Since 2007 InteraXon’s goal has been to visualise our brain activity, configure it and display it in a more...
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Optimizely’s meteoric rise to overtake Google & become the world’s leading...
BackgroundIn 2008 Dan Siroker was working as the director of analytics for Barack Obama’s political campaign, and it wasn't easy for a number of reasons.In his role he and his team needed to rely on...
View ArticleSummly reinvents mobile news with summarisation technology
While a lot of publishers are investing in responsive web design and mobile websites that should ensure greater ease at consuming text-based news and content on portable devices, it’s still hard to...
View ArticleMIT algorithm uses Twitter’s data to predict what will trend
An algorithm developed by two researchers from MIT claims to predict with 95% accuracy the topics and hashtags that will trend on Twitter up to five hours prior to appearing on Twitter's own trending...
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