Wednesday 16 February 2011

IBM's Watson Dominates Jeopardy Competition on Day 2

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IBM's Watson Dominates Jeopardy Competition on Day 2 Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter were no match for the supercomputer, as Watson ended the night with $35,734, followed by Rutter at $10,400 and Jennings at $4,800.
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Android Phones Take Over Mobile World Congress The next round of hot Android phones were on display in Barcelona. Will one of them seriously threaten the iPhones supremacy? Let's take a look at them.
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Apple's New Subscription Model: Pros and Cons Apple's move may force digital publishers and content providers such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu to think long and hard about continuing to offer apps for iOS devices.
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Toshiba Shows Off Android 3.0 Tablet Toshiba's tablet is media-centric, with a 16:10 aspect ratio display at a 1,280-by-800-pixel resolution, a 5-megapixel camera at the back and a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video calling.
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5 Ways to Make Sure You Aren't the Next Wikileak Here are five key tips to help your government agency or enterprise avoid being the source of the next Wikileak.
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Take Your First Look at A Game of Thrones: Genesis It's a real-time strategy game based on George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, and it's due out this year.
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HTC's Flyer May Be a Standout in Crowded Tablet Market The new tablet uses a special version of HTC's Sense overlay software to create a unique user environment.
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Hulu Steps on Netflix's Toes, Starts Streaming Movies Hulu added 800 movies from Criterion Collection to its Hulu Plus subscription service.
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Google Lets Users Block Content Farms A new Chrome extension allows users to block content farms such as Associated Content and eHow from their search results.
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New Windows Zero-Day Surfaces as Researcher Releases Attack Code A security researcher yesterday disclosed a new unpatched bug in Windows that some experts believe could be used to remotely hijack a PC.
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Apple Nixes Child Labor Practices at Chinese Factories Apple Tuesday said that it has terminated business with a Chinese factory that it found had employed 42 underage workers.
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Warner Bros. Stuffs Movies Into iPad, iPhone Apps The in-app movies are separate from iTunes so you're forever bound to an iPhone or iPad.
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Duke Nukem Forever to Use Controversial Steamworks 2K announces Steamworks to power PC version of Duke Nukem Forever when it ships in early May this year.
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Comcast, Time Warner Cable Sign On for 24-Hour IPv6 Trial Comcast and Time Warner Cable have joined the throng of network vendors that are participating in World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of the next-generation Internet protocol scheduled for June 8.
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Has Zune Finally Met Its Inevitable Demise? Microsoft seems to be incorporating Zune's platform further into other successful offerings -- Windows Live, Xbox, etc. -- and that's a good thing. Maybe that's what the future holds for the brand.
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Tablets and Smartphones Force Cisco to Rethink Security Cisco has unveiled a self-described "complicated" security architecture dubbed SecureX that it says provides a context-aware way to safeguard networks increasingly overrun with smartphones, tablets and virtualization.
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