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Babylonian language, revived online

Several linguists worldwide have compiled an online collection of Babylonian texts spoken language to allow anyone to find out how the language sounds that dominate the Middle East just two and a half thousand years, informs Yahoo News

Among the texts are found recorded Epic of Gilgamesh and Hammurabi's Code, which contains the oldest laws in history. Professor Martin Worthingtington from Cambridge University said that the language sounds like a mixture of Arabic and Italian.

The sounds were reconstructed using a comparison with other related languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. They also used words written in Greek or Babylonian Aramaic.

Babylon is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and texts stored in the form of clay tablets in the literature is the beginning of all humanity. Thirty recordings are available at www.speechisfire.com.

Google published an interactive book about the Internet

Google announced Friday that it has published an online guide to the Internet for beginners called "20 things I learned about web browsers. Interactive book is available online and address issues ranging from simple themes, such as "What is the Web and how it works?"to more complicated topics, such as "What is HTML 5?".

The guide is illustrated by the famous German artist Christoph Niemann, known for his illustrations of several books for children.

The book comes in a context where a survey last year by Google, only 8% of respondents could correctly answer the question "What is a browser?".

Bulgaria among the countries with the highest level of internet piracy

Bulgaria is among the countries with the highest level of piracy on the Internet in Central and Eastern Europe, was announced at the Forum BAIT 2.10 Week held in Sofia Novinite informs.

Matthew Lambert, coordinator of the U.S. Department of Justice and Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in Eastern Europe, said about 100% of pirated software and files in Central and Eastern Europe are distributed online.

He also said that Bulgaria is among the countries with highest piracy, content for which was not previously obtained a license is distributed mostly on the Internet.

Forum organized by the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT) took place on November 29 in Sofia.

Internet should win the Nobel Peace Prize?

The Internet has entered this year's competition for the Nobel Peace Prize. Awarding the prize to a structure that is neither an individual nor a group of people is perfectly justified. "Marx would certainly understand why people favor the detriment of processes and structures, is an error. " May remains one question: is the internet candidate for this award?

Philosopher and chief editor of the "Philosophers' Magazine has done an analysis taken from the BBC which would be to indicate to what extent the internet would be a suitable candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. Among the positive aspects include the fact that the Internet allows coexistence in an open, tolerant, and focused on discussion and debate. However the Internet fosters harmony rather than conflict situations. Moreover contribute to the depersonalization of people about which psychologists say that it leads to aggressive behavior.

Those nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Internet may be right when it says that "failure to communicate has always been the most effective antidote to hatred and conflict. " With all these conditions and how this communication takes place are equally important.

E-house. Future Home

At first glance, science fiction is all about: Electronic devices work only when the current tariff is lower, radiators controlled by mobile phone, 3D TVs that talk. This is the reality but the near future. All the above features mentioned before, but many others are already happening. They are found in a modern house, a house called E-house, like the one presented at the international electronics fair IFA in Berlin and telecommunications.

The brain works like the Internet

According to a recent study brain seems to resemble a vast interconnected network like the Internet, reports BBC. This information is contrary view "top-down" of the human brain, specific to the 19th century.

Research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America can contribute to the complete map of the nervous system.

The novelty of this research is that the injection of two markers was performed while at the same point: one that showed how it is going signals and one which showed the direction they come from these signals. This approach can display up to four levels of connection.

Such an interconnected structure was intuitive in the past, proved to be an important tool for analyzing how the brain processes information, but this has not been demonstrated so far.

Google accused that it violates the principle of Internet neutrality

Online giant Google was accused of violating one of the most important laws of the Internet, the principle of neutrality, according to which everyone has equal access to information. Critics fear that with U.S. telecommunications company Verizon, Google has sketched a plan for "shared" performance allocation leading Internet and only those who pay the most.

Some voices believe that such a scenario could mean the beginning of the end for the Internet that we know, but Google says that discriminatory access is allowed in certain cases.

Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge, a group that advocates for digital rights, said the deal between Google and Verizon on the management of Internet traffic is regrettable. The fate of the Internet is a problem too large to be decided by negotiations between two companies. "