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Blake Ross writes about the Firefox phenomenon; One of the questions
I’m asked most frequently by innocent observers of the Firefox phenomenon is: “What’s all the fuss about? It just surfs the web.�

blakeross.com : The Firefox religion

According to slashdot.org; heptapod writes “New Scientist is reporting that UK researchers have created a computer that can learn rock, paper, scissors by observing humans. CogVis uses visual information to recognize events and objects in addition to learning by observing.”

Slashdot | Machine Learns Games

prostoalex writes “Scientific Americans looks into the human brain, trying to figure out why some events just tend to stick in our memories forever, while the others are gone: “How does a gene “know” when to strengthen a synapse permanently and when to let a fleeting moment fade unrecorded? And how do the proteins encoded by the gene “know” which of thousands of synapses to strengthen? The same questions have implications for understanding fetal brain development, a time when the brain is deciding which synaptic connections to keep and which to discard. In studying that phenomenon, my lab came up with an intriguing solution to one of these mysteries of memory.”

Slashdot | Volatility of Human Memory

According to slashdot.org; zmarties writes “In a very low key announcement on his blog, Ben Goodger, lead developer for Firefox, has announce that effective from a couple of weeks ago, he has become a Google employee. In practice his day to day job won’t change that much, in that he will still lead Firefox through its forthcoming releases, but with Google paying his wages, we can be sure that new and interesting overlap between the Mozilla Foundation’s browsers and Google’s services are sure to develop.”

Slashdot | Firefox Lead Now Working For Google