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  New IBM project puts Watson to work in customer service

  By Adi Robertson on May 21, 2013 09:36 am + 9 comments

  Watson, the powerful computer that rose to fame as a Jeopardy! contestant in 2011, has proved Continue reading…

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  Beyond the smartwatch: how invisible machines will shape Microsoft's future

  By Amar Toor on April 24, 2013 12:22 pm + 31 comments

  Rick Rashid has a lot on his plate. As the chief research officer at Microsoft Research, the Continue reading…

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  Creating a crash-free computer out of chaos

  By Amar Toor on February 15, 2013 07:26 am + 16 comments

  Researchers at University College London have developed a computer that instantly recovers from Continue reading…

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  Dell's 'Project Ophelia' Android-powered MHL stick turns TVs into cloud computers

  By Justin Rubio on January 8, 2013 01:39 pm + 1 comments

  Using its Wyse cloud computing technology, Dell has created "Project Ophelia"' an Android-powered Continue reading…

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  Researchers resurrect 'The Witch,' world's oldest working computer

  By Amar Toor on November 20, 2012 04:17 am + 25 comments

  Researchers at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in the UK have restored a massive, 1950s-era Continue reading…

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  Steve Jobs discusses 21st century technology in rare 1983 speech

  By Ben Kersey on October 3, 2012 04:55 am + 89 comments

  An additional 40 minutes of a speech that Steve Jobs gave at the International Design Conference in Continue reading…

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  Why Amazon's worldwide cloud computing service is just the start

  By Louis Goddard on August 28, 2012 09:36 am + 9 comments

  The New York Times has published a short feature profiling Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud Continue reading…

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  Alan Turing's 100th birthday celebrated with Science Museum exhibition, words from Vint Cerf

  By Kimber Streams on June 18, 2012 02:16 pm + 23 comments

  June 23rd marks the centenary of Alan Turing's birth, and technologists across the world are Continue reading…

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  Stephen Wolfram looks back at 'A New Kind of Science,' 10 years on

  By Jamie Keene on May 15, 2012 05:21 am + 11 comments

  Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science (NKS), published 10 years ago this week, was one of the Continue reading…

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  Kickstarter: MaKey MaKey turns the world into a $35 input device

  By Jamie Keene on May 15, 2012 04:44 am + 16 comments

  MaKey MaKey is a new and extremely simple circuit board that lets you turn any surface into an input Continue reading…