Home-built Batman Tumbler invades the suburbs (38)
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Filed under: Transportation While we're guessing "working replica" might be a bit of a stretch, this full-size, drivable Tumbler built by Bob Dullam in his garage is still quite the impressive piece of work, and will no doubt crush any eBay records set by home-built K.I.T.T.s if it ever actually goes up on the auction block. Unfortunately, apart from the fact that it cost between $50,000 and $70,000 to build, there aren't many more details ...
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Dylan said:
I wish this would show up in my driveway and not have Batman kick my ass!
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dbingham said:
Sign me up for one of these things. Anyone want to donate $70,000 to the cause?
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Carlos said:
GODDAMMIT
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Seth said:
HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME!
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ABrad45 said:
epic win all over the place
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Chris said:
Insane!
Now playing on YouTube: online family safety (2)
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Posted by Pablo Chavez, Senior Policy CouncilAs a member and supporter of the Family Online Safety Institute, we are proud to let you know that FOSI recently launched its own branded YouTube channel. This YouTube channel represents one more example of how FOSI is identifying the best practices, tools, and methods for keeping kids safe online. The videos on FOSI's channel include an interview with Rachel Dretzin, producer of the PBS documentary "Growing Up Online," ...
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shuman said:
A new YouTube channel from the Family Online Safety Institute.
The Dark Knight #8 grossing movie of all-time after 3 weeks (1)
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A good illustration of how big movies can open these days. Considering it beat Mummy 3 this weekend, TDK looks like it may be the first movie since Titanic to cross $500MM.
With No Frills or Tuition, a College Draws Notice (6)
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Berea College, which charges no tuition and only accepts applicants from low-income families, provides an unusual perspective on how universities should handle endowments.
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shuman said:
A great example. Hopefully we'll see the richest US universities continuing to expand the set of students for whom tuition is free.
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Aton said:
This is really dope. I mean, dogs, there are literally hundreds of options of ways to make this happen with those type of endowments. Top universities should all have "feeder academies" that target low income students and prepare them for acceptance there should be minimum achievement benchmarks and regular evaluations to make sure kids keep up. if you meet standards you get a free ride to the university...that's just one option off my head.
The Dark Knight hits #1 on IMDb! (25)
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On Thursday we told you that 4,591 Internet Movie Database users had rated The Dark Knight a 9.7 out of 10 (or a 9.0 out of 10 from regular IMDb voters), good enough for the #4 spot on the top 250 movies of all time list. We expected the film to slide down a few slots as a larger sample of votes came in. We were wrong. It’s now Saturday night, and with 19,000 more ...
Technologies behind Google ranking (143)
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In my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See "Modern Information Retrieval: ...
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smuggyuk said:
It is great that they tell us all about their great synonym and concept systems, what would have been a better post would be to tell us they're opening up these great systems via an API so others can make use of the hard work they've put in. Shame!
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Ihar Mahaniok said:
Great examples by Amit. As for me, localizing globally is one of the greatest challenge, but it's worth it..
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Linda said:
This just astounds me.
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Umang Saini said:
Lots of bragging about the queries they got right. What about the ones that fail flatly?Interesting work in IR, whatever that is :-)
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Brandon Bloom said:
You already know this, but it is nice to hear spelled out: "Google is really good at search"
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Eric said:
Interesting to see how their system can distinguish between what you actually searched for and what you wanted to search for. The synonyms based upon intent are amazing stuff.
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shuman said:
Some good explanations of the technical challenges Google search handles.
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Reece said:
Google gives it to you in, fairly, plain English. Unfortunately, they describe basic search and retrieval concepts in a way that makes the reader think they invented them. Hardly standing on the shoulders of giants . . .
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Derek said:
really interesting look into all of the strides Google has made in search
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juzcoim said:
really worth reading
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Thaths said:
In case you have have been living under a rock and have not seen this already in the blogosphere or socialnetworkosphere, this post by Amit Singhal is a must read. It does an excellent job of explaining the complexities of search engine (in layman's terms)
Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account (32)
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Posted by Erwin D'Souza, Gmail Engineer Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I'm sure, you don't always want other people to see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are to you, so we're adding a new layer of information and control. With this new feature, you can now track your recent sessions and you can also sign yourself out remotely.If you are ...
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Cameron said:
i like this!
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Andrey said:
Should be pretty interesting for control freaks like me
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Antoine said:
This is a really outstanding feature.
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Kavinda said:
Its features like this that make Gmail stand out from the crowd.PS: I'm seeing this feature in my Google Apps email account as well.
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emacsian said:
Nice feature from google. I believe they are the first to role this out
Tesla Roadster takes 30 hours to charge from a standard wall socket (1)
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Filed under: TransportationIf you've got the coin to roll deep enough to own a Tesla Roadster, we'd imagine that making sure the car gets its 8 (or fewer) hour charge from a 220v / 80A circuit (like what powers some larger home appliances) won't be a huge issue. But if not, think twice about your driving schedule with the all-electric sports car, because while you can technically power a Roadster from any standard wall outlet, ...
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With a 220 mile range, even assuming a linear charging curve, this means that if you drive it more than 59 miles in a day, it won't be fully charged in 8 hours overnight. Not so great.
Pioneer's Blu-ray disc hits 400GB across 16-layers (3)
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Filed under: Storage 16-layers -- that's how many layers it takes to the hit the center of a 400GB Blu-ray disc, pops. That's 25GB per layer just like those dual-layer 50GB discs available for retail. Best of all, the technique used by Pioneer is expected to be backward compatible with existing Blu-ray gear since the specs and lenses required for pickup are identical. The prototype is read-only for the moment but R&D's on it so ...
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This much storage on a single disc is a game changer.
Tyrant alarm clock dials your contacts if you refuse to wake (13)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We've seen alarm clocks institute some fairly unorthodox methods of waking users up, but this is exceptionally high on the list of "oh, no they didn'ts." Alice Wang's Tyrant, which we can only assume is a concept, actually dials a random number in one's mobile contact list for every three minutes that the sleeper doesn't address the obnoxiously loud ringing. In other words, unless you pick yourself up out of bed ...
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ding3r said:
I think this might help.
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shuman said:
Imagine when hundreds of your friends have these.
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Nick said:
Best alarm clock ever!
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E.Marie said:
i love this! perfect for hamster_grrl, who has trouble getting up but who doesn't want to piss off the world for no reason.
Keeping kids safe in a digital world (2)
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Posted by Liz Eraker, Policy AnalystIn the spirit of National Internet Safety Month, we welcomed Ernie Allen, co-founder and president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to the Googleplex last week to discuss child protection issues.For those not familiar with it, NCMEC works closely with federal law enforcement across the U.S. to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation and to help find missing children. From serving as the clearinghouse for ...
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NCMEC talk and more here.
Official Google Blog: How to avoid getting hooked (1)
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Some recent tips from our security team on how to protect yourself against phishing attacks.
Official Google Blog: Using data to help prevent fraud (1)
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This post includes a simple example of analyzing IP distributions.
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A piece I wrote on creating businesses from hobbies using AdSense.
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