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30 Japanese orgs building new search engine
Mainichi Daily News is reporting that about 30 Japanese organizations in Japan, including the University of Tokyo and major electronics and telecom companies, will be jointly opening a research institute to develop a next-generation search engine. The institute, which will be subsidized by the Japanese government, plans to have the new search engine "put into practical use" within two years. Among the companies involved are Hitachi, Fujitsu, and NTT, and the Mainichi article seems to imply that the end product will be open source.
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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
