Researchers at Japan’s Tokyo Institute of Technology have updated their SOINN machine learning algorithm so that it can now use the Internet to identify items it’s never encountered before.

First impressions for day one at Webstock were generally positive. This is a well run event that’s clearly learnt a few lessons over its lifespan and put them in to play. The guest speakers offered a range of diverse topics that were high level concepts (in the main) but some of the concurrent sessions tended to get a bit more ‘under the hood’ and that I really enjoyed. A couple of good examples of this [...]

Today a new website (and associated social media channels) was launched to provide people and other organisations with information on the upcoming Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2001. The site is well worth a look – 3strikes.net.nz The amendment comes in to force on September 1st 2011 but the impact of it could well be felt from August 11th onwards in New Zealand because alleged infringements from this date will count . This is [...]

Tonight I’ve upgraded my site CMS (WordPress) to it’s latest version – the fifteenth major release of this software. The back-end interface looks great and I can see the collaborative efforts that have gone into the dashboard refresh. Here’s a short video that spotlights some of the new release features. Along with this update comes a new HTML5 compliant Twenty Eleven theme that acts as a natural springboard for theme developers. I read this evening that [...]