Pin Itemailprint A Reddit user asked uber-genius Ken Jennings to sign his book, “Brainiac”, with an illustration of Jennings “locked in mortal combat with Watson.” Watson, of course, is the IBM supercomputer that wiped the floor with humanity on Jeopardy last week. Needless to day, Ken came through in a big way. Photo below… Incoming [...]
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The puny humans proved to be no match for the IBM supercomputer Watson on Jeopardy. Watson finished with a two-game total of $77,147. Ken Jennings finished with $24,000 and Brad Rutter ended up with $21,400. The humans made a good show of it, but Watson just proved to be too much to handle, despite running [...]
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IBM’s artificial intelligence experiment Watson is ready for prime time, taking on two of the best players ever on the popular trivia and knowledge game show Jeopardy. It took years to get Watson to the point where it was able to efficiently answer questions, and now it’s duking it out with such great Jeopardy champs [...]
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IBM withdrew its $7 billion takeover offer for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, just one day after the Sun board balked at a reduced offer. On Saturday, IBM had dropped its bid from $9.55 a share to $9.40 a share after the issues rose in due-diligence. The board of directors at Sun Microsystems didn’t decline the [...]
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The job losses continue to mount as the economy trudges on. Yesterday, layoffs were announced by IBM, Google, Amazon and The New York Times. IBM has the highest tally with 5,000 people losing their jobs. Amazon cut 210 employees at distribution centers in Nevada, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Google is also letting about 200 people go [...]
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Image via CrunchBase As if Google doesn’t already know everything there is to know about you, together with IBM, Google has launched a new Google Health initiative. This project will now be able to pull data directly from various medical devices such as heart rate monitors, scales, blood-sugar measurement meters and so on. Hooking up [...]
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