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IBM makes amazing breakthrough in technology

Even though Apple and Microsoft have dominated technology in recent years, an amazing discovery by IBM researchers unveiled last Thursday, January...
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Netflix Awards $1 Million Dollar Prize

We've been talking about this contest for months. But today, Los-Gatos based Netflix awarded a $1 million dollar bounty to a global team of...
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"Gaydar" Experiment Raises Eyebrows

Slashdot has instigated an interesting conversation about an MIT experiment that uses social data -- i.e., information gleaned from social networks...
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A Bicycle Built for Two: One Guy, One Robot

Alas, your honey has left you, and that tandem bike you purchased last summer is just sitting there, gathering dust. But weep not, because Joules...
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Pool Hustling Robots

My biological dad was a pool hustler (really). He retired from the game for a career selling Latin-American music (a far gentler sport, despite...
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Lipreading Machine Outperforms Human Beings

A team at the University of East Anglia reports an experiment where a "machine-based lip-reading system" outperformed human beings by a...
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UK Apologizes for Persecuting Gay Scientist

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown formally apologized today for the country's "appalling" treatment of WWII codebreaker and AI pioneer...
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Call Center Robots Will Answer the Most Annoying Questions

A Minneapolis company called Subjex is claiming a big first in artificial intelligence: a service that enables call centers to replicate the human...
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Siri is amazing

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  • October 14, 2011
By now, almost everyone has heard of Siri, the new virtual assistant Apple has included on the iPhone 4S. I've been getting to know her for the...
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Let two chatbots talk to each other, and the result is hilarity

Follow me on Twitterandon FacebookWhat might happen if you allowed two chatbots to "speak" to each other. Based on an experiment by...
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