According to research, a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds - but how prepared are you for what comes next? Last Tuesday after work, I headed to a bar in Kings Cross with a couple of colleagues, slung my rucksack on the table next to us, and spent a pleasant hour brainstorming feature ideas. When I got up to leave, the rucksack was gone - complete with my laptop, notebook and a copy of The Secret..
German researchers working on giving Nintendo hero adaptive learning artificial intelligence to become a 'living and conversing agent' There are gamers who can complete Super Mario Bros in less than five minutes, and gamers who still struggle with the finer elements of mushrooms, pipes and coins. But how would Mario fare playing his own games? Thanks to a team of cognitive modelling researchers ..
A dip in the search behemoth's market share has encouraged some commentators to compare it to Bill Gate's company The news that Google's share of the websearch market in the US has suddenly dropped is interesting. According to an independent analytics firm, StatCounter, last month Google's market share dropped to 75.2%, compared with 79.3% a year earlier. That is its lowest share since 2008, whe..