Predictive, adaptive, semantic search. It’s that holy grail wherein a search engine will know that, if you input the word barbecue, you really mean recipes instead of the history of grills. While search has gotten exponentially more intelligent over the years, there are still areas in which it fails and semantics is just such an area. The team atBing, however, thinks that it has the answer in a new product calledAdaptive Search....

Bing exploded in 2010, growing its total aggregate search volume in the US by astunning 29%. That compares favorably to the 12% growth rate for the total US search market in the same time period. Google grew 13% in 2010, just above the average US rate of growth. By the end of 2010, Bing controlled a firm 12% of the US search market, up 1.6 percent from the end of 2009 when the search engine stood at 10....

In the world of web development, the ability to speed up the process while still maintaining quality is often times key. Surely you’ve run into a scenario where there’s something that you want to do on your site, but you don’t yet know how. Rather than spending months researching and delaying your product, there’sbinpress. binpress is a marketplace. But rather than purchasing an entire application or website, it’s a marketplace for source code....

With the right computer program, proteins become pleasant music. There are many surprising analogies betweenproteins, the basic building blocks of life, and musical notation. These analogies can be used not only to help advance research but also to make the complexity of proteins accessible to the public. We’recomputationalbiologistswho believe that hearing the sound of life at the molecular level could help inspire people to learn more about biology and the computational sciences....

Did you know SHIFT istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! In June, Bird expanded its micromobility services by adding to its escootersa fleet of shared ebikes. The company launched its first dedicated Bird Bike along with the “Smart Bikeshare Program” that allowslocal shared ebike and emoped providers to integrate with the Bird app....