After the third day of competition on Jeopardy, last night, IBM’s supercomputer Watson was declared the winner.  The two former Jeopardy champions that played against Watson were stunned by the defeat, losing to the computer by a margin of almost $50,000. The IBM team responsible for building Watson went ballistic when it won.  ”We just [...]

As each year passes, we look back and think about our achievements, it’s only natural.  And who would expect any different from the Chinese Government?  Of their most notable accomplishments in 2010, they proudly claim that they eliminated 350 million pieces of harmful information (text, pictures, videos) and took down 60,000 porn websites. Of the [...]

PORTLAND, OR – As a new initiative to tune the programming for the Terminator AI, to that of your personal preferences, in order to find and eliminate you faster, Google is releasing a new advertising and marketing platform for local businesses. Named “Hotpot,” an anagram for oHTTPo, the Skynet language protocol, they use the data from Google [...]

As if we needed a new browser, when there’s Opera, IE, Flock, Firefox, Safari, Chrome – to name a few …the former co-founder of Netscape, Marc Andreessen – along with other internet superstars have come together to build a brand new browser, which has a focus on social media called, RockMelt.  (Flock actually was created [...]