Tech news aggregator TechFuga has some new features this morning, including a new news clustering algorithm, easier-to-read graphics, more news sources, and better news search.
The company is debuting a new feature called Trending Storylines — personalised news clusters based around topics of the moment, composed of content from outside LinkedIn's walled garden coupled with related writing published on LinkedIn itself.
Some of these news clusters will also feature a bar of videos and photos related to the articles' content.
3+ year old TechMeme, an automated news site that shows breaking news clustered by topic, has always generated "headlines" by analyzing how news sites link to each other.
In contrast, Weak AI is more narrow; it has no real intelligence or awareness and relies on fairly specific tricks and techniques to solve a particular problem – think Siri, or predictive texting, or Google's news clustering algorithms.
THE NEWS A cluster of new studies suggested that people who work out regularly need not worry about consuming fructose in their diets; indeed, the sugar was found to be beneficial in recovery after exhausting exercise.
By contrast, a shift in return patterns cannot be explained by fixed-date macroeconomic news, which cluster in the first third of a month.
Most importantly, Google News search now features click-to-expand news results clusters.
Outside Mr. Ledger's home in SoHo and his former residence in Brooklyn, news crews clustered for a second day and mourners and fans trickled by to leave flowers or notes.
In a non-old media departure, the site is about to allow readers to post their own local news articles clustered around specific towns and communities in the US.
Britain's housing bubble was more dangerously inflated than most countries'; its households are more indebted; financial services account for a bigger share of its economy; and its government, thanks in large part to Mr Brown, spent with both hands during long years of unremitting economic growth, leaving little scope for fiscal fine-tuning now.So the bad news is clustering thick and fast.
