Posts Tagged Technology

Some things will never change

Some things will never change, some things will… This is the slogan announcing a major step forward in PayPal’s technological evolution, ie the opening of its platform to third party developer.

One little movie to launch the campaign:

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Wolfram|Alpha goes live

Wolfram|Alpha is live since last night.

What Wolfram|Alpha? Although it may look like a search engine characterized by its simple interface, Wolfram Alpha can more be defined as a knowledge base or an answer engine. This “Computational Knowledge Engine” as they call it has been developed by a team led by British mathematician Steven Wolfram.

The lon- term goal of the site is to make “all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone”. The site, which is very focussed on the “English-speaking knowledge” today, will not give you a list of web sites as a traditional search engine, but the answers to your questions in a structured form. A dream for every lazy student. Read the rest of this entry »

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