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YouTube uses Amazon’s recommendation algorithm — In a paper at the recent RecSys 2010 conference, “The YouTube Video Recommendation System” (ACM), eleven Googlers describe the system behind YouTube’s recommendations and personalization in detail. — The most interesting disclosure …
Federal Express does not want your Social Security number. Neither does UPS . Customers have reported receiving emails claiming to be from the shipping companies, warning them that a package went undelivered and asking for information. Or they’re sent a …
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The school updated its security blocker and I can’t get to anything.
Multiple World Bank officials were alerted this week to beware an email virus purporting to be from an unlikely source: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner . Getty Images Timothy Geithner The virus was detected in an attachment sent to several World Bank …
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