Ex-Google workers unveil new search engine
Associated Press
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable – only this time it’s not for sale.
Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.
The end result is Cuil, pronounced “cool.” Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.
Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers – Russell Power and Louis Monier – searched for better ways to search.
Now, it’s boasting time.
Alarm Clocks - Now with Bacon
This new home appliance is aptly named the “Bacon Alarm Clock.” It cooks bacon before it wakes you. What you do is place pieces of frozen bacon into it and 10-minutes before the alarm rings it starts cooking the bacon.
Mmmm…waking to the smell of Maple bacon. Canadians rejoice as we now have the alarm clock that we’ve always wanted. Fat Americans can also rejoice about having multiple bypass surgeries before the age of 16.
Big Brother & The further loss of civil liberties
Thinking about taking your laptop across the border for your next trip up north or down south? News hitting the wires today indicates that you might want to re-think that plan, unless you feel like being separated from your precious gadgets. Apparently, border agents have given themselves the right to seize any piece of electronics equipment they feel like, even if they don’t think you’ve done anything wrong, and they can keep your toys for as long as they like.
This rule extends to your cell phone, Kindle, MP3 player, or any other information storing device you’ve taken along for the trip (even paper!). Agents can also make copies of any (or all) of your data to share with any other Federal agency — though they promise to delete it when they’re through. It was just over a month ago that everyone was up in arms about laptop searching at borders, and now this? We certainly hope that this particular infringement of our digital liberties won’t last long for long.
[Via: Switched]
Computing Heads for the Clouds
IBM, Yahoo!, and Google are all putting the power of cloud computing to work. Here’s a short primer on how the new technology works
Researchers seeking smarter ways to tackle the most complicated computing tasks think they’ve found the answer in a cloud—though not the kind that wafts across the sky as masses of condensed water droplets and frozen crystals. Instead, they’re turning to something called cloud computing, which aims to deliver supercomputing power over the Internet.
IBM (IBM) is the most recent company to announce plans to tap cloud computing technologies. On Nov. 15, IBM executives in
Supercomputing for the Rest of Us
Two top Internet companies recently announced similar projects. Yahoo! (YHOO) on Nov. 12 said
“All of these are examples of the frenzy around cloud computing,” says Dan Reed, a longtime supercomputing researcher who will start work as Microsoft’s (MSFT) director of Scalable & Multicore Computing on Dec. 3. Fueling that frenzy, says Reed, is the proliferation of high-speed Internet connections, cheaper and more powerful chips and disk drives, and the development of data centers that house hundreds or thousands of computers to quickly serve sophisticated software to legions of users. “None of this would have been possible a decade ago,” he adds.
Herewith, a primer on how companies—and consumers—might harness cloud computing’s power:
ReadyBoost - MS Q&A
This is an old (April, 2006) post regarding the Readyboost feature, that is available to Windows Vista users. It answers many of the questions that we’ve had about the feature. So, if any of you are interested hit the jump for more Q&A.
Q: What perf do you need on your device?
A: 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes Read more
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