In an exclusive announced on Tuesday, The Wrap reported that YouTube will be launching a movie on demand service for mainstream Hollywood movies. The move touted as a challenge to the iTunes service includes Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers…
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Wolfram|Alpha & DuckDuckGo Conspire to Eat Google’s Lunch
This afternoon, Wolphram|Alpha announced that DuckDuckGo is an ‘official partner’ and the latter will be fully integrating their open API announced in January. This will enable DuckDuckGo to provide Wolfram|Alpha’s computational knowledge engine into i…
Google Looks to Reduce ‘Virtual Regret’
Google is funding research from Tel Aviv University’s Blavatnik School of Computer Science to teach computers to understand and utilise hindsight in order to more accurately predict the future. The research launched at the International Conference on …
Happy Tree Friends Give a Lesson in Copyright
This copyright lesson from YouTube featuring the homicidal, suicidal and just plain crazy cute fluffy characters of Happy Tree Friends highlights some of the risks of copyright infringement, and explains what sorts of content are subject to copyright. …
Google Trivia: Boredom Breaker or Google Research Tool?
Today Google announced the launch of Google Trivia, a new online game that allows you to search for answers, while posing the questions in such a way that there is no easily searchable answer. Players will have to be very creative in how they search f…
