Dotcom World-44: Google launches new search engine for scientific community

Google launches new Search engine for scientific community

The service, called Dataset Search, will help scientists, data journalists and geeks find the data required for their work and their stories.

IANS

Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 11:25

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Dotcom World-43: THE NEW LI-FI INTERNET

FORGET WI-FI.

MEET THE NEW LI-FI INTERNET

Harald Haas

800,423 views

TED

Published on Dec 2, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWIZsIBj3Q

What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? Using off-the-shelf LEDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have pioneered a new technology that transmits data using light, and it may just be the key to bridging the digital divide. Take a look at what the future of the Internet could look like.

Grateful thanks to Harald Hass, TED and YouTube.

Dotcom World-42: THE TRUE STORY OF THE INTERNET: DOT COM BUBBLE

THE TRUE STORY OF THE INTERNET:

DOT COM BUBBLE

164,093 views

Published captjack5169 on Feb 5, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQjnkyoNIfg

The True Story of the Internet: Dot Com Bubble - The true story of the .com bubble that fueled ebusiness internet of today.

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Dotcom World-41: The Dot Com Bubble Explained in One Minute

The Dot Com Bubble Explained in One Minute

114,024 views

Published by OneMinuteEconomics on May 4, 2016

A one-minute video which explains what the dot com bubble was all about. By knowing what generated the dot com bubble and how things unfolded, you'll understand a thing or two about how markets function and ultimately about what makes human beings tick.

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Dotcom World-40: Microsoft Artificial Intelligence technology can read documents, answer questions

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence technology can read documents, answer questions

The Financial Express, 16 January 2018

Microsoft researchers have created a technology  that uses Artificial Intelligence(AI) to read a document and answer questions about it as a human. “It is major milestone in the push to have search engines such as Bing and intelligent assistants such as Cortana interact with people and provide information in more natural ways, much like people communicate with each other,” Allison Linn, senior writer at Microsoft, wrte in a blog post.  The team at Microsoft Research Asia reached the human pariyty milestone using the “Standford Question Answer Dataset” known among researchers as “SQuAD”.

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Dotcom World-39: COINING ‘SURF’ THE NET

COINING ‘SURF’ THE NET

Sometimes we forget to wonder about the most common things that we do, like why we use the term ‘surf’  the net.  The term ‘surfing’  the Internet was coined in 1992 by a librarian, Jean Armour Polly, who goes by the popular name ‘Net Mom’ and also owns a domain by the same name.

Courtesy: The Times of India, Chennai, Oct 16, 2014

Dotcom World-38: ONLINE DATING WEBSITE CREATES HISTORY

ONLINE DATING WEBSITE CREATES HISTORY

From the millions of people that may have met one another on Match.com, it is reported that one million babies have been born.

Courtesy: The Times of India, Chennai, Oct 16, 2014

Dotcom World-37: INTERNET SEES THE EXTINCTION OF FOUR LETTER DOTCOM DOMAINS

INTERNET SEES THE EXTINCTION OF FOUR LETTER DOTCOM DOMAINS

Every possible combination of four-letter domain names has been registered as of December 2013.  The 4,56,976 combinations that can be made ranging from AAAA to ZZZZ have all been used up.  The three-character domains have been used up since 1997.

Courtesy: The Times of India, Chennai, Oct 16, 2014

Dotcom World-36: The first registered domain name

The first registered domain name: 

SYMBOLICS.COM

Symbolics was a company that’s pioneered computer development.  It also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s.

Courtesy: The Times of India, Chennai, Oct 16, 2014

Dotcom World-35: THE INTERNET TURNS 8472 DAYS OLD (as of Ocst 16, 2014)

THE INTERNET TURNS 8472 DAYS OLD

Although it has been 16,480 days (about 45 years) since the day the Internet technology was made, this year marks the 25^th anniversary of the Internet as we know it, the World Wide Web.

Courtesy: The Times of India, Chennai, Oct 16, 2014

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Dotcom World-34: Newspapers to charge for Online Access

Rupert Murdoch's Times and The Sunday Times have announced that they are ending the free access to their online editions. From June, they will be charging for online access.

Based on the article, "Two UK papers to charges for online access" by Hasan Suroor in The Hindu, Trichy, March 27, 2010.

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Dotcom World-33: "Google Website Optimizer"

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Dotcom World-32: "Stephen Lawler tours Microsoft Virtual Earth"

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Dotcom World-31:

British entrepreneurs launched Internet Eyes, a program that allows registered users to monitor live feeds from some of the United Kingdom's 4.2 million surveillance cameras in order to search for a crime in progress, with cash prizes for viewers who spot the most criminals.

-- Margaret Cordi
HARPER'S WEEKLY
October 13, 2009

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Dotcom World-30 : "Google Search Tips"

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Dotcom World-29: "Monitoring Internet Use"

As a step in modernising surveilance tactics to check the alarming rise of crime, terrorism and other evils, UK Govt plans to demand communication services like internet service providers and mobile service providers to record all internet contacts like email, phone calls and other internet usage like visits to social network sites.

Courtesy: BBC News
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Dotcom World-28: "Internet Explorer 8 Launched"

Microsoft is launching Internet Explorer 8, to be downloaded from its website free of cost for those using licensed Microsoft operating systems.

Courtesy: The Hindu, Madurai, March 20, 2009.

Detailed Wikipedia article on "Internet Explorer 8": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer_8

Grateful thanks to The Hindu, India's National Newspaper and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

TED Talk-1: "Tim Berners-Lee's Talk on Concept of Linked Data" (A TED audio-video Presentation)

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Dotcom World-26: "YouTube Landmark"

The number of U.S.Internet users watching videos at the YouTube site hit a new monthly high in January, topping all of 100 million.

Courtesy: The Hindu, Madurai, March 6, 2009 ("Newscape")

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