search engines are going to unite

Engineers at Google, Apple, Microsoft andMozilla are partnering to create WebAssembly, a bytecode for use in the browsers of the future that promises up to 20 times faster performance.

WebAssembly is a project to create a new bytecode (a machine-readable instruction set that’s quicker for browsers to load than high-level languages) that’s more efficient for both desktop and mobile browsers to parse than the full source code of a Web page or app.

Proposed as a standard that could one day be implemented in all browsers, WebAssembly could bring app-like performance to Web content and apps.

Until WebAssembly becomes more widely available, the coalition of developers plan to bridge the gap with a JS script that will convert wasm to Mozilla’s widely supported asm.js for browsers that don’t support the new format yet.

WebAssembly is still very much in its early days: neither its specifications nor its high level design have been finalized yet. However, with major browser developers behind the project, it should see the light of day soon enough.

FUTURE HOTELS

To you, hotel rooms may seem the same — there’s a bed, a TV, maybe two nightstands and a bathroom — but in reality, hotel rooms are changing at the speed of light: modernizing, adapting to today’s traveler’s needs, and looking to innovate for the future.

Hotels are scrambling to anticipate travelers' future needs, and while no one has a crystal ball, some changes already taking effect can help us get a glimpse of what’s to come.

We spoke to hotel designers and industry insiders to get an idea of what hotels will look like in the future.

Twitter buys artificial intelligence group Whetlab

Twitter on Wednesday acquired the artificial intelligence startup Whetlab, bolstering the analytics capacity which is becoming increasingly important for social networks.

Terms were not announced for the deal, which was disclosed in a tweet by the Twitter engineering team and on the website of the Massachusetts-based Whetlab.

Twitter did not comment on its plan for the service, but artificial intelligence can be used to determine the most relevant tweets and advertising messages for each user, or to better filter spam.

"Over the past year, we have created a technology to make machine learning better and faster for companies, automatically," a statement on the Whetlab website said.

"Twitter is the platform for open communication on the Internet and we believe that Whetlab's technology can have a great impact by accelerating Twitter's internal machine learning efforts."

The move comes with Twitter searching for a new chief executive following Dick Costolo's announcement he is stepping down. Co-founder Jack Dorsey will be the interim CEO.

Whetlab, which was founded by computer scientists and neuroscientists from Harvard and Canadian universities, aims to help companies make better use of artificial intelligence, or machine learning.

With some 300 million active users, Twitter has been growing at a slower pace than some rival social networks and has yet to show a profit, despite creating new advertising products for the one-to-many messaging service.

Facebook has been investing heavily in artificial intelligence  to show more relevant items in user news feeds.

Giant 'Earth Stethoscope' Spies on Planet's Wonky Behavior

The planet is crawling with tiny spies: Hidden undersea microphones, instrument-clad satellites and infrared cameras are listening, watching and smelling all the action on planet Earth, from a migrating whale to a meteor crash. 

The international system, called the (CTBTO), has been spying on Earth for the past 18 years, but researchers are still finding fresh ways to interpret its data. In fact, about 1,000 scientists plan to discuss their findings at the CTBT Science and Technology conference, to be held June 22-26 in Vienna.

Here's a look at four things the CTBTO can see, hear and sniff on planet Earth.

THINK

First open your mind  before,

before opening your mouth.........