Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

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HP set for webOS tablets in February: Could the Slate drop Windows 7?

HP is set to announce one or more webOS tablets on 9 February. An HP boss has confirmed that a range of products will make an appearance at a launch event in San Francisco.
HP VP for personal systems Todd Bradley went on US telly to discuss the "ecosystem" of HP's devices, which will include tablets and smart phones based on a new version of the slick webOS mobile operating system.

Quantum cryptography

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Brian Lara Gets Snub At IPL Auction For 2011

Brian Lara, one of the greatest batsmen of all times, didn't find any takers for him in the 4th edition of the IPL 2011 players' auction. The West Indies cricket icon joined the likes of Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Herschelle Gibbs and Jesse Ryder to be left out of the IPL 4. None of the 10 IPL teams placed any bid for the man who holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history. Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004. He is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career. Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.

Biometrics

Biometrics

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Sweet Couple

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History of PHP

Originally started in 1994 as a replacement for various Perl scripts used to maintain his Personal Web Page (thus the acronym PHP) by the Danish/Greenlandish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, the project has since grown into an open source community effort. Initial uses of PHP were limited to basic tasks such as counting how many visitors a web site had received, the introduction of PHP/FI (The FI stands for Form Interpreter) added additional functionality including implementation for the C programming language.

In addition to the inclusion of C support, PHP/FI also introduced native support for database communications. These two features have become the bedrock for future versions of PHP and together allowed the relatively swift and easy construction of dynamic web sites. While sites created with PHP at that time may be considered simple by modern standards were still leaps and bounds more impressive than static content and certainly helped to pave the way for the internet to flourish and grow as a medium.

In 1995 Lerdorf made the project public in an effort to improve the PHP code base in both reliability and scope. This release would eventually be known as PHP 2. At the time Perl was still the preeminent language for performing the tasks that PHP was seeking to perform and PHP had yet to reach a point where it had the same scope, depth, and consistency offered by Perl.