Singapore will pay $ 100,000 for the new YouTube

Singapore's A * STAR has announced an open competition to develop the best universal search engine. Feature of the technology to be developed by competitors is that it must search not only text content, but also for multimedia content.

The competition, organized by A * STAR, timed to coincide with the inauguration of a multifunctional complex Fyuzionopolis that will happen in the second half of 2008. To participate in it as a welcome development teams and single developers and architects.

Five finalists will be determined by August, all the teams who came to the final, will be invited to Singapore for the final round, scheduled for October 2008. Best idea for a new YouTube or Facebook would be awarded by a U.S. $ 100,000.

Electricity in the pyramids

During excavations in Duyyat servant near Baghdad in 1936 were found pottery, whose age is greater than two thousand years, placed in a copper cylinder, wrapped in blue strips of iron. . Formed the current voltage of one volt. In the mysterious tomb of Egyptian temple at Dendera (790 kilometers north of Luxor ) was depicted on the relief replica of the light bulb. Taking it as a basis, the Austrian engineer Walter Garn produced an accurate model of such an arc lamp with a glass enclosure 40santimetrov length and diameter at the widest part 12 inches.

Cap tubes impregnated with resin, which strengthened the platinum electrode, another electrode is taken away. Between them missed the talk, and lit up the real ancient temple lamp.

Business will go into the online worlds?

After 5 years of sales in the ' virtual worlds ' will be no less significant than today's online commerce, promises to research company Forrester Research.

Since then, both in three-dimensional virtual worlds have been opened representative offices of companies such as IBM, Coca-Cola, BP, Intel, it's been a long time. Online applications that allow you to not only communicate, but communicate in the online ' virtual reality ', since become more popular and accessible to use for business.

For example, the audience of the project Second Life has millions of users. Among the Russian reality, 3D- emulators can be noted the project ' Virtual Moscow ' and is rumored to have created the current 3D- representation of St. Petersburg and the ' Olympic ' Sochi.

Experts predict the future success of companies that interact with an audience of similar projects - especially if a company is directly connected to the Internet, including, sells online. It is also expected to increase the number of sotruzhnikov working remotely, and the development of various interactive tools for online and video communications.