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Chatbots take the ultimate AI test - and fail
Remember the Loebner Prize - the annual test of artificial intelligence that we mentioned last weekend ? Well, it took place on Sunday in Reading, featuring five chatbots desperate to be the first to pass Alan Turing's famous test. Elbot emerged as the winner, after scooping a 25% success rate at convincing the judges that it was actually human. That's not enough to please the ghost ...
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No Internet access for 9/11 defendants at Guantanamo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A U.S. military judge has denied a request from professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for Internet access inside his Guantanamo cell, ruling he does not need it to prepare for his death penalty trial.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Tomizone Extends Free iPhone Wi-Fi Hotspot Access
13th October 2008 -- Tomizone, the global company offering innovative services for high-speed wireless Internet access, today announced that it has extended its free Internet access offer for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users across its independent Australasian network of Wi-Fi Hotspots until December 31, 2008. The extension includes a free 500MB "top-up" for users who have already registered ...
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Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server
Instead of having a big, loud and complex computer on your desk, what if you could have a quiet, thin machine that rarely needed an upgrade or a fix?
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RWW Predictions Double: Facebook, Microsoft, & Pandora
Just last year, Microsoft snagged a $240 million stake in Facebook in a bidding war against Google . However nothing but speculation has resulted since that stake was won. This week we saw the first steps of integration of Microsoft Live Search on Facebook . Microsoft is promising to improve the user experience on Facebook with the addition of Live Search functionality and advertisements. ...
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IMF Sees Spain 08 GDP Slowing Down, Recession In 09 -Report
The International Monetary Fund sees Spain's gross domestic product slowing down in 2008 and the economy sliding into recession in 2009, IMF senior economist Jorg Decressin told Expansion in an interview published in its Monday Internet edition.
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My Yahoo! Years, Part 4: Racehorses Run to Death
All for Yahoo!, but Yahoo! for Yahoo!. How Yahoo! gave purple a bad name. Have you ever been to a thoroughbred rescue? Those horses aren’t all losers. Some were stakes winners, but they were gelded, meaning that no money could be made from breeding stud fees and so they were often run until they could run no more or started losing and then cut loose — donated to a rescue or a slaughter house. ...
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Brunei Taking Part In MIPCOM For The First Time
Cannes - A golden age for television beckons as established TV companies go head on with the Internet and other new digital media platforms to woo audiences worldwide.
BruDirect.com |
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White people will like this
Coffee. David Sedaris. Microbreweries. Public radio. Standing still at concerts. Rugby. Expensive strollers. Subtitles. St. Patrick's Day. Christian Lander kept adding to his Internet list with witty snippets humorously explaining each choice and — to his shock — became an Internet sensation. Then — again to his shock — book agents contacted him within weeks of his first blog. Finally (and, yes, ...
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Internet amplifies third-party candidates
Third-party and independent candidates have always faced an uphill battle to be heard by voters, but those candidates contend that the role of the Internet as a potent force in politics has helped to level the playing field in recent years.
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Micron Technology Strengthens Its Partnership With Nanya Technology Corporation
Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE:MU), today announced that it is expanding its partnership with Nanya Technology Corporation and signing a definitive agreement to acquire Qimonda AG's 35.6 percent ownership stake in Inotera Memories, Inc., a leading Taiwanese DRAM memory manufacturer, for $400 million in cash. To help fund the purchase price, Micron has obtained $285 million in term loan financing ...
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Looking back on past celebrity life
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- By today's computer-generated, HD-animated standards, "Romper Room" seems pretty tame stuff for kids. Just a show with a cute hostess, puppets and parades, and a...
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On the day he knocked Yahoo offline, Michael Calce, who was known at the time only by his online moniker, Mafiaboy, estimates that he had hacked into perhaps 40 percent of the major universities in the United States, using attack code that he picked up online.
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Mafiaboy grows up; a hacker seeks redemption
The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo , then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours.
IT World |
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In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship.
IT World |
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ANZ Australia Total Job Ads Down 1.4% In Sep Vs Aug
SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- The number of Australian newspaper and online job advertisements fell 1.4% in seasonally adjusted terms in September compared with August to an average of 245,734 ads per week, contributing to a 2.2% on-year decline, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ.AU), which compiles the data from major newspapers, said Monday.
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Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm
In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics , a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship.
IT World |
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Microsoft is suing U.S.-based cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a train derailment in Texas, according to court documents.
IT World |
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Micron buys Taiwanese DRAM maker for $400 million
Micron Technology, Inc., announced Sunday that it is expanding its partnership with Nanya Technology Corporation and signing a definitive agreement to acquire Qimonda AG’s 35.6 percent ownership stake in Inotera Memories, Inc., a leading Taiwanese DRAM memory manufacturer, for $400 million in cash.
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Geek of the Week: Mike Davidson, Newsvine (now part of MSNBC.com)
Geek of the week: Mike Davidson, CEO, Newsvine (now part of MSNBC.com)
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Police Taser man accused of burglarizing home
Wilton Manors police shocked a man with a Taser them arrested him on charges of stealing jewelry, money and a laptop computer from a home Sunday afternoon.
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Golden Age for TV beckons
CANNES, France: A golden age for television beckons as established TV companies go head on with the Internet and other new digital media platforms to woo audiences worldwide.
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Job ads fall for fifth month in a row
Advertisements for jobs in September fell in Australia for the fifth straight month as firms reduce hiring staff in the slowing economy. Job ads in major newspapers and on the internet fell by 1.4 pe
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Advertisements for jobs in September fell in Australia for the fifth straight month as firms reduce hiring staff in the slowing economy. Job ads in major newspapers and on the internet fell by 1.4 per cent to a weekly average of 245,734 ads per week, the latest ANZ job ads survey found.
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Web site offers lowdown on Valley auto repair
A new Web site that offers a wide range of information about automobiles - particularly auto repair shops in the Valley - is making its debut on the Internet.
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