Google reveals new search engine
Google has revealed first details of ‘Caffeine’, the codename for the newest edition of its powerful search engine.
The company says that Caffeine will be the “first step in improving the speed, accuracy and comprehensiveness of search results".
Web developers are now invited to test the new search engine and provide feedback.
Though the front-end of the engine will look no different to the one online today, the tech driving it will speed up indexing search results and create a larger index.
One clear outcome of this will be the reduction in time it takes for the search engine to find new content freshly-published on the web.
Taiwan military rescues some 300 typhoon victims
CISHAN, Taiwan — Taiwan’s military rescued about 300 people Tuesday after a mudslide touched off by Typhoon Morakot consumed a village, but scores remained missing. A helicopter on a relief operation in the area crashed into a mountain with three crew aboard.
Chen Chung-hsien, an official in charge of the relief effort, said it was unclear if the two pilots and one technician had survived the crash near Wutai in Pingtung county, where the chopper was delivering food and trying to reach villagers.
Morakot, which triggered the worst flooding in Taiwan in 50 years, dumped as much as 80 inches (two meters) of rain at the weekend before moving on to China.
Taiwanese authorities put the confirmed death toll from Morakot at 50 and listed 58 people as missing, not including the residents missing in Shiao Lin, whose fate has been unclear since Sunday’s mudslide. At least 400 people there are unaccounted for. Access to the area — in the southern reaches of the island’s heavily foliated mountainous spine — is restricted to the military.
Clinton Demands Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined a chorus of predominantly Western voices condemning the sentencing of Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, on Tuesday, demanding her release and saying that, without a change in its human rights practices, Myanmar’s scheduled elections next year would be illegitimate.
“She should not have been tried, and she should not have been convicted. We continue to call for her release,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters in Goma, Congo, where she is on an African tour.
“We also call for the release of more than 2,000 political prisoners, including the American, John Yettaw,” she said, referring to a 53-year-old man who swam across a lake in central Yangon, Myanmar’s main city, last May and spent two nights in Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi’s villa. The episode led to the case against her on charges of violating the terms of her house arrest.
Three top Hollywood studios bring films to Web
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – It is a dash of Hulu and a sprinkle of YouTube, features a crystal clear picture, can rewind or fast-forward at lightning speed, and doesn’t require a download of any special software.
But epixHD.com, the soon-to-launch video website, will have its success dictated more by the movies, concerts and original programs it offers than the technology behind it, said the executive charged with creating and running the site.
"The critical linchpin to what we’ve got is that we have one-third of the box office of Hollywood," Epix Chief Digital Officer Emil Rensing said in an interview.
That comes thanks to the three parent companies of Epix: Viacom Inc’s Paramount film studio, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp and MGM. In putting together Epix, the companies hope to compete with Time Warner Inc’s HBO and CBS Corp’s Showtime in the premium movie channel business.
But they added a twist. In addition to the premium movie channel and a video-on-demand component, the venture is building epixHD.com, a website where the studios’ vast collections of full-length movies and new original programing can be streamed by any subscriber.
Rensing, a former executive with Time Warner’s AOL, was hired to run the site. His aim, he said in an interview, was to make it "all about being easy to use" yet not a "dumb player" that simply acts as a projection screen for video.
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