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Google Wants Your Voice Data 138

Posted by CmdrTaco from the and-your-soul dept.
00_NOP writes "Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, has told New Scientist that one of the reasons the search engine launched Google Voice is that it needs more human voice data to perfect the sort of 'big data, simple algorithm' probabilistic approach to translating voices to text that drives Google Translate. Norvig says that no one is listening to your calls on Google Voice — it is simply their servers trying to get the translation right."

Submission + - 1st International Flight for Solar-powered Plane (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Solar Impulse is on standby for its first international flight this week. Brussels has been chosen as the destination for the first venture outside Swiss borders, which follows the solar powered aircraft's maiden flight and first overnight flight last year and will mark another important step towards the goal of flying around the world in 2012.
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Submission + - Fox, Paramount may skip YouTube due to lack of pir (electronista.com)

Submitted by mr100percent
mr100percent writes: Fox and Paramount have supposedly backed out of YouTube's imminent major movie service in an attempt to force action on piracy. Unofficial comments from the two claim that they won't get onboard as long as Google is indexing pirate video sites in its search engine and allowing them AdSense placement. Disney, not mentioned before, was also leaning the same direction, The Wrap said.

Comment Re:How Amusing (Score 1) 195

by CTalkobt (#35797630) Attached to: Third Humble Bundle Arrives, 'Frozenbyte' Edition
So... my formulas were off but in the end there were more solutions than I had thought reasonable :

I've starred lines where I think the assumption mac
windows linux mac
10002 133 7593
10282 254 7192
10562 375 6791
10842 496 6390
11122 617 5989
11402 738 5588
11682 859 5187
11962 980 4786
12242 1101 4385
12522 1222 3984
12802 1343 3583
13082 1464 3182
13362 1585 2781
13642 1706 2380
13922 1827 1979
14202 1948 1578 **
14482 2069 1177 **
14762 2190 776 **
15042 2311 375 **

Comment Re:How Amusing (Score 1) 195

by CTalkobt (#35797304) Attached to: Third Humble Bundle Arrives, 'Frozenbyte' Edition

Oh how I find this quite amusing. (Snapshot from when I was at the payment page)

  • Total payments: $92,658.36
  • Number of purchases: 17,728
  • Average purchase: $5.23
  • Average Windows: $4.13
  • Average Mac: $6.55
  • Average Linux: $12.15

Anybody care to run the figures and find out the % breakdown for each OS category?

( 4.13w + 6.55m + 12.15l ) / 17728 = 5.23

for some numbers w, m, l.

Comment Re:and in the usa you pay up to $0.25 per text for (Score 1) 573

by CTalkobt (#35033194) Attached to: Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber
AFAIK, It's pretty much always been free to block SMS. I've done it on all cell plans I've had (various carriers over the past 10-12 years). They don't like to advertise / push it - but if you ask how they'll certainly tell you and it's not complicated.

After all, you should be in charge of your bill - not somebody spamming you w/ SMS texts.

My wife and I use google talk to get around lack of SMS, which ironically probably costs the telco more but costs us less.

Comment Re:Absolutely spot on (Score 1) 419

by CTalkobt (#33875226) Attached to: Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers

I'd become evil in an eye blink. Deep within my lair I would tie people to by horrendously over engineered table and unfold my nefarious plots to educate people about how bad their sense of editing, spelling, grammar and story selection are.

"No Mr Samzenpus, I expect you to learn"

...tie people to my horrendously...

There - fixed that for you since you're doing such a good job as a villain.

Comment Finally!! (Score 1) 77

by CTalkobt (#33678108) Attached to: Preliminary Finding Invalidates VoIP Patent
This will allow me to call my hot girlfriend who is just waiting for me on the other end of the line. Now I can do it via VOIP.

When I tell her about she'll be so enthused - I can just imagine her response now.

[ insert response below ]

Comment Re:That is the modus operandi (Score 1) 373

by CTalkobt (#33639348) Attached to: Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack
Actually 2 bit encryption has 4 keys : 00, 01, 10, and 11. I believe you're thinking of 1 bit encryption.

Depending upon your function to encrypt and what it does, having a 1 bit key doesn't make things necessarily any easier or harder. There may be additional values associated with the encryption algorithm which adds to the encryption complexity (eg: prior lookup on the past x+key bits that have been encrypted ).

Submission + - Summer IT Soap Season: AAPL vs GOOG vs MSFT (takethe5th.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This is a great set of reference links to the ongoing Soap Opera that is Apple vs Google vs Microsoft. There is humor, there is drama, and there are some great must read articles — for example, see the widely varying latest reviews of Windows Phone 7.
Media

Submission + - Journalists plot to kill stories critical of Obama (dailycaller.com)

Submitted by Third Position
Third Position writes: Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."

Submission + - Pirate ISP for Sweden (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Fireking300
Fireking300 writes: The Pirate Party of Sweden has announced the creation of 'Pirate ISP'. Which will be a broadband provider to offer anonymity and protection to its Swedish residents from 'Big Brother'. They plan to uphold against the Swedish Government which set a law for ISPs to monitor all traffic of it's users.

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