Recently I’ve seen people mention the difficulty of generating content that can garner massive attention and links. They suggest that maybe it’s better to focus on content without such potential that can earn just a few links but do it more consistently and at higher volumes. In some cases, this …
Read More »IAC buying Angie’s List, will combine with HomeAdvisor into new public company
IAC is buying Angie’s List and will combine it with its own home services lead-gen site, HomeAdvisor, in a deal worth in excess of $500 million. The merged entity will then be spun out as a new public company: ANGI Homeservices Inc. IAC had been seeking to acquire Angie’s List …
Read More »Ask.com exposing real-time user queries to the public
Ask.com’s Apache server status page is open to the public at ask.com/server-status. That technically means that any queries and user actions done on that server on Ask.com are open to anyone to look at. It is unclear how long this page has been open to the public, but the server …
Read More »IBM is making its quantum computer API available to the public
Most of the time, when we talk about functional quantum computers in the world, we’re talking about D-Wave. That company has taken the lead on quantum computing and provides its own 2048-bit quantum annealers for solving certain types of problems. IBM, however, has its own five-qubit system it’s been working …
Read More »The government’s public evidence falls short of proving Russian involvement in the DNC hack
On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an updated report on whether or not Russia was responsible for both hacking the Democratic National Committee and aiding in the distribution of the stolen material. The report pulls no punches and argues that, in both cases, the answer …
Read More »Peru’s public TV airs first news programme in Quechua
Image copyright TV Peru Image caption The programme is presented in Quechua by Clodomiro Landeo and Marisol Mena Peru’s public broadcaster, TV Peru, has begun broadcasting its first ever news programme in Quechua, the ancient indigenous language spoken by some eight million people in the Andes. The hour-long programme, entitled …
Read More »Uber partners with TripGo to seamlessly connect public transport
Uber has today announced that it will partner with the public transport app TripGo, allowing users to seamlessly travel on public transport with Uber acting as a way to get to or from their local train, buss or tram stop. TripGo will be given access to Uber’s real-time ridesharing data and …
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