Old newspapers provide a window into our past, and a new algorithm co-developed by a School of Management researcher is helping turn those historic documents into useful, searchable data.Published in Decision Support Systems, the algorithm can find and rank people’s names in order of importance from the results produced by optical character recognition (OCR), the…
That’s the headline for my latest project (with Tomas Petricek), presented at HATRA. [paper] [recorded talk] With this work I am finally confronting the demon cursing my work: version control. If we are to liberate programming from text we need to make structure editing work, including version control. After all, there will be limited benefit…
Media companies are always looking for the hook to grab readers’ attention, especially during the hectic holiday season. As a channel, email has gotten a lot of buzz lately and continues to hold its own as a way of getting directly in front of an audience. For example, during recent social media network outages, marketers…
Haas F1 fait partie de ces équipes qui n’ont pas du tout développé la voiture 2021, à part pour la mettre en conformité avec le nouveau règlement (entailles dans le fond plat notamment). La logique est respectée cette année, puisque Haas occupe sans surprise la dernière place au classement des constructeurs. Günther Steiner a de…
Naming names — Rob Willis now says no to a “half-assed whistleblow.” Nate Anderson – Oct 18, 2021 6:23 pm UTC Rob Willis. Robert Willis, the hacker who helped build a massive, US-based disinformation network and was profiled in a recent Ars Technica feature, has decided to name names. In a blog post today, Willis…
hey hey monterey — Focus, Universal Control, and Shortcuts will define this low-key release. Andrew Cunningham – Oct 18, 2021 6:01 pm UTC Apple Apple will release macOS Monterey, the next major version of its Mac operating system, on October 25, the company announced today. The new software will also ship on the new 14-…
Apple Silicon — M1 Pro and M1 Max include 10 CPU cores, 16 or 32 GPU cores, and up to 64 GB RAM. Samuel Axon and Andrew Cunningham – Oct 18, 2021 5:33 pm UTC Enlarge / The new MacBook Pro.Apple Nearly a year after announcing the first low-end M1 Macs last November, Apple has…
Wireless Audio — New true wireless earbuds cost $179, take inspiration from the AirPods Pro. Samuel Axon and Jeff Dunn – Oct 18, 2021 5:15 pm UTC Enlarge / The third-generation Apple AirPods.Apple Today, Apple announced an update to its popular AirPods true wireless earbuds. The new third-generation model features a slightly revamped design that…
M1X missiles — Today’s MacBook-y event gets started at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern. Lee Hutchinson – Oct 18, 2021 4:40 pm UTC Enlarge / This is happening.Apple We’ve rounded the bend in 2021 to October, and you know what that means: it’s time for a second fall Apple event! Last month, we…
An employee at a second IRT aged care facility in the Illawarra has tested positive for COVID-19.Key points:An employee of IRT’s Links Seaside Aged Care Centre tested positive on MondayTwenty-four residents and four staff have been linked to a cluster at the company’s Tarrawanna facilityIRT says it is enacting its management plan and doing all it can to…
