16-Year-Old Anmol Tukrel Claims His Search Engine Is 47 Percent More Accurate Than Google

Anmol Tukrel, a 16-year-old Indian-origin Canadian citizen, has designed a personalised search engine which he claims is 47 percent more accurate than Google.

The young student designed the search engine as part of a high school project and also to submit to the Google Science Fair, pressexaminer.com reported.

Tukrel came across the idea of a personalised search engine during an internship stint in India at Bengaluru-based adtech firm IceCream Labs.

He planned to take it Google's personalised search engine idea to the next level.

Tukrel said that unlike most search engines that use a person's location or browsing history to throw relevant results, his engine tries to show the most relevant content by mapping it to a user's personality.

Tukrel's search engine is currently restricted to one year's news articles that appeared in The New York Times.

His development kit included only a computer, a python-language development environment, a spreadsheet programme and access to Google and New York Times.

To test the accuracy of his search engine, Tukrel limited the search query to this year's articles from the New York Times.

How to Get Free WiFi Anywhere, Anytime

Need to stay connected? Don't panic. There are several ways you can find free WiFi wherever you are.

If you want a quick and easy way to scan your area to find the closest hotspots, check out a free app called WeFi. WeFi lists over 200 million WiFi hotspots around the world so you'll never have to go too far to find a connection.

Another thing to consider is your cable company. Depending on your provider, you may already have free WiFi access. Cablevision, Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks all provide more than 250,000 free hotspots in metropolitan areas for qualified customers. For more info, visit your provider's WiFi homepage, or just download its free WiFi finder app.

Another way to connect is by tethering. Tethering is a feature that turns your smartphone into a portable WiFi hotspot. Most smartphones have this capability already built in. To activate it, go into your WiFi settings and enable your "personal hotspot" option. Once it's set, your phone will appear as an available WiFi network, so you can share -- or "tether" -- your phone's connection to your laptop or tablet.

There's one thing to watch out for, though. Tethering does tend to use up your phone's data plan pretty quickly, so check your network's terms and conditions first so you don't get hit with any unwanted charges.

No internet? No problem! Give these options a try and you'll be able to find a free connection, anytime, anywhere.

                                                                                             Ref: http://www.dailyfinance.com

What Is the Resolution of the Human Eye?

The new iPhone camera is 8-megapixels. Meanwhile, Canon is reportedly testing a new DSLR with 75-megapixels. But how many megapixels is the human eye? That is, how many megapixels would an image the size of your field of vision need to be to look normal?

Well, as Vsauce explains in its latest video, the better question is actually: What is the resolution of the human eye?

It's a complicated question, one that must take into account the peculiar anatomy of the eye which is different than the less peculiar engineering of a digital camera. As such, it's worth watching all ten minutes of the video, explaining not only how we see but also how well. Spoiler: the human eye is 576 megapixels.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                             Ref:http://gizmodo.com