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Comment Poor facebook (Score 1) 9

by Topman on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:44AM (#60299131) Attached to: Google Steers Users To YouTube Over Rivals

Where is the analysis of facebook pushing traffic to Google Youtube? Facebook is, was and will for ever be a closed shop, pushing people only on to Facebook. How can google show me a facebook post that since I don't have a facebook account I cannot see. They are for free and open web, not the closed off nearly compuserve version that facebook wants. Simply put its a very badly researched article paid for by facebook. I suppose WSJ has chosen sides.

How can the google algorithm understand the popularity of a video on a closed platform and judge it against its own known popularity from youtube? You are asking them to put facebook videos above youtube on faith alone? What a crock of s**t.

Submission + - Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 23, 2010 @03:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: Firefox 4's JavaScript engine is now faster than V8 (used in Chrome) and Nitro (used in Safari) in the SunSpider benchmark on x86. On Mozilla's test system Nitro completes the benchmark in 369.7 milliseconds, V8 in 356.5 milliseconds, and Firefox 4's TraceMonkey and JaegerMonkey combination in 350.3 milliseconds. Conceivably Tech has a brief rundown of some benchmark figures from their test system obtained with the latest JS preview build of Firefox 4: 'Our AMD Phenom X6-based Dell XPS 7100 PC completed the Sunspider test with the latest Firefox JS (4.0 b8-pre) build in 478.6 ms this morning, while Chrome 8.0.560.0 clocked in at 589.8 ms.' On x86-64 Nitro still has the lead over V8 and TraceMonkey+JaegerMonkey in the SunSpider benchmark.

Submission + - Hard-to-read fonts improve learning (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by arkenian on Friday October 22, 2010 @10:18PM

arkenian writes: Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. The finding is about to be published in the international journal Cognition. Researchers at Princeton University employed volunteers to learn made-up information about different types of aliens — and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later.

The article goes on to note a second test in a real school environment: "Keen to see if their findings actually worked in practice, the Princeton University team then tested their results on 222 students aged between 15 and 18 at a secondary school in Chesterfield, Ohio."... "Students given the harder-to-read materials scored higher in their classroom assessments than those in the control group. This was the case across a range of subjects — from English, to Physics to History."

Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight 38

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 11, 2008 @02:12PM from the dyson-vacuum-of-space dept.

DynaSoar writes "Esther Dyson, known to many as a founding and consistently guiding member of ICANN, and for working with the startups of Flickr, del.icio.us, Medscape and others, is now expanding her interests upwards. She recently announced that she will be heading to Moscow to train as backup astronaut for Charles Simonyi, who plans to fly aboard Soyuz TMA-14 next year. The US$3 million price tag won't be her first cash contribution towards personal space flight. She's already an investor in Space Adventures, the company that arranges the space tourist flights on Soyuz."

CNET UK Credits Claim That Apple Will Release Networked TVs 110

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 11, 2008 @07:33AM from the logical-progression dept.

r2k writes "While the Apple rumours posted yesterday highlight some of the most commonly talked-about opinions, a writer for CNet UK sat down with Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, who told CNet he knew for a fact that Apple is developing fully networked LCD TV sets. As the writer points out, Apple dropped 'Computer' from its company name for a very good reason."

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