Cortana for all: Microsoft’s plan to put voice recognition behind anything | Ars Technica

Rampancy? No. All these Cortanas are coming to put artificial intelligence in all your things if Microsoft’s Project Oxford pays off.Microsoft cache hit 1131:single/related:dddab36ab28d02765c76f914daac1d70 empty When Microsoft introduced the Cortana digital personal assistant last year at the company’s Build developer conference, the company already left hints of its future ambitions for the technology. Cortana was built…

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Announcing National Day of Civic Hacking Challenges | National Day of Civic Hacking

<![endif] Start Fluid Video Embeds Style Tag End Fluid Video Embeds Style Tag All in One SEO Pack 2.2.3.1 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design[490,582] /all in one seo pack Announcing National Day of Civic Hacking Challenges Posted on Tue, 12th May 2015 by Nicholas Skytland /intro-content /container /intro National Day of Civic…

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Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ – Digits – WSJ

article start Google is changing its search algorithm Tuesday to favor sites that look good on smartphones, a move some are calling “mobilegeddon” because of its impact on website operators. The new formula will give a boost in Google’s “organic” search results to sites that are designed to look good on smartphones, while penalizing those…

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Security Advisory: XSS Vulnerability Affecting Multiple WordPress Plugins | Sucuri Blog

Multiple WordPress Plugins are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to the misuse of the add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() functions. These are popular functions used by developers to modify and add query strings to URLs within WordPress. The official WordPress Official Documentation (Codex) for these functions was not very clear and misled many plugin developers to…

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Its journalism is behind a paywall, but The Times of London’s developers embrace open source » Nieman Journalism Lab

LONDON — For Callum Jones, a digital reporter at The Times of London, every morning begins with a 4:30 a.m. wakeup call. Jones is responsible for assembling and sending Red Box, a newsletter from The Times and Sunday Times that delivers a roundup of political news, commentary, and polling every morning. Red Box — which…

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