Contestants on Jeopardy
This highly successful television quiz show is the latest challenge for artificial intelligence.
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Second Life Continues To Grow Despite Stories Of Its Demise
A Second Life avatar in WWF’s Conservation Island.
Linden Lab chief executive Mark Kingdon shakes his head when he sees news stories heralding the demise of former Internet darling Second Life.
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IBM Helping To Develop A Hydraulic Hybrid
IBM is helping to develop a hydraulic hybrid (SHH) system — that promises dramatic fuel savings and environmental benefits — replaces the conventional drivetrain and transmission. The system uses hydraulic pumps and hydraulic storage tanks to capture and store energy, similar to what is done with electric motors and batteries in a hybrid electric vehicle.
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IBM Unveils Innovations That Will Change Our Lives In The Next Five Years
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Unveiled today, the third annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
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Software That Can Help Improve Memory
If memory keeps failing you, worry not. IBM has been working on a software that might help you in recalling forgotten pieces of your life.
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World’s First Intelligent Audio Masking System Developed By IBM
IBM’s India Research Laboratory have developed an intelligent system that can trace and mask the sensitive information in the form of audio signals on it’s own. This means customers can now dial the helplines without being worried about the sensitive data theft they need to speak out to the representatives across the phone lines. The need to develop this kind of security system was felt owing to the fact that everyday thousands of callers just speak out their sensitive information regarding credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc. to the call center employees in India. This communication takes place through regular phone lines, which if traced by a rouge third-party cyber vandal can lead to a significant havoc.
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$100 Million Machine Performs 1,000 Trillion Calculations Per Second
Scientists unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
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Online Video Ads are Blazin’ Hot
There is no question that online video advertising is generating plenty of excitement, and also a great deal of confusion.
In-stream, in-banner, in-text, linear, non-linear, pre-roll, post-roll, layovers; when it comes to online video ads the jargon piles up faster than e-mail messages. But what exactly does it all mean?
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Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline
A recent poll of about 12,000 US business decision-makers by market researcher CoreBrand found that Microsoft’s brand power has taken a dive over the past four years. According to the study, Microsoft dropped from number 12 in the ranking of the most powerful US company brands in 2004 to number 59 last year. In 1996, the company ranked number 1 in brand power among 1,200 top companies in about 50 industries.
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