Social Media, Technology & Design

IBM is working to turn its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer into the newest mobile device personal assistant. ...

London-based startup Mendeley, which provides a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers and collaborating online has hit a milestone as its database queries ...

Oxford University Press has announced a partnership with SecretBuilders to promote the publisher's "50 Great Reads Before 15" initiative.

For every 100 hardback and paperback books it sells on its UK site, 114 ebooks are downloaded in 'reading renaissance'...

This past week, the media has worked itself into a frenzy over Wikipedia’s future. On Monday, Robinson Meyer wrote an article for The Atlantic warning about the alarming decline in the number of administrators and participating users on Wikipedia. Gizmodo soon followed suit with a pessimistically headlined post, “Wikipedia is running out of editors and admins” and the story has since spread to BBC and MSNBC.

Cognitive Code CEO, Leslie Spring, is seeing his world explode, in a good way. Since the emergence of Siri, the world has awoken to the realities of how artificial intelligence will take on a major role in the way we search and organize our lives.

For over a decade the Semantic Web has been maligned, misconstrued and misunderstood. It’s been overhyped by its supporters while its critics have hung the albatross of artificial intelligence around its neck.

SAMI the mobile robotic platform created by the Criif SAMI is a life-sized, semi-humanoid robotic prototype built by the Criif, a research and technology research lab in Paris.

In 1945, The Atlantic Monthly published an article by the American inventor Vannevar Bush. The title of the article was “As We May Think”. It outlined a concept (considered revolutionary at that time) for a futuristic networked machine similar to today’s Internet-enabled devices. This apparatus was called a Memex. The Memex can be seen as a powerful precursor to present-day digital tech.

Wikipedia attributes its volunteer problem to technology.

If it was easier to edit posts, more people would edit them.

Yet the technology hasn't changed much since its peak in 2007.

If it was a technology problem, how did they recruit so many volunteers in the first place?

Facebook won’t always exist. Sure, a company named Facebook will exist and sure, it will have a social network that is hosted on Facebook.com. But Facebook as our go-to social network has a finite lifespan..

It’s been a year since YouTube launched its Creative Commons video library, inviting people to upload videos that could be repurposed and remixed for brand new content.

Since then, over 4 million Creative Commons-licensed videos are hosted on YouTube and are ready for your creative mind. In case you were wondering, Flickr is the champion when it comes to the most Creative Commons-licensed photos.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells the BBC he is not concerned over reports that the site is failing to recruit new volunteer administrators.

Wikiweb’s main selling point is as a Wikipedia reader that not only serves up the usual content crowdsourced from willing bodies around the world, but it also visualizes the connections between articles.

You can explore any Wikipedia article, and you’ll be issued with articles containing gorgeous, beautifully presented typeset. But the presentation is only part of the appeal here. It lets you discover interesting articles through connections you may not have initially expected.

When you think about all of the amazing inventions during the past 100 years, one of the things that changed the world was the computer mouse. By pointing and clicking, you can manipulate things on your screen and get things done that people never imagined would be possible.