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Supercomputer Against Humans – Who Will Win

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On Thursday, January 14, IBM’s ‘Watson’ AI computer was able to defeat the best two Jeopardy champs in the world during a practice round to showcase artificial intelligence. The research for the project has taken place at the Thomas J. Watson Center for Research, which is located in Westchester County. According to IBM spokesman, Joe [...]

Intel And Nvidia Settle Massive Patent Lawsuit

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The two companies Intel and Nvidia are joining forces with each other to share their technology. Intel is paying Nvidia $1.5 billion to gain access to their patent portfolio about graphics processing and Nvidia will also gain access to Intel’s vast patent portfolio. It has been well publicized that the two companies have never been [...]

More Than One Million Download From Mac App Store In First Day

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In its first day, the Mac App Store, developed by Apple Inc, as a digital platform for Mac OS X applications reported to receive over 1 million apps downloaded from it. The Mac App Store features over a thousand apps that are both free and fee-based. The revolutionary store is an experience directly for the [...]

Apple Macstore Already Hacked On The First Day

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The Mac App Store is already having to face reports that its copy protection has been hacked. The store was only launched yesterday by Apple, and initially received favorable feedback. Now Apple is having to respond to hacking claims as well as facing up to the face that the negligence of some developers is making [...]

Microsoft Kinect Adds Support For Multiple Streaming Video Players

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Microsoft announced that their Kinect motion sensor has sold 8 million devices during its first 2 months on the market. The announcement was mad at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. The product was launched by Microsoft at the beginning of November. It is a controller free gaming platform, which lets [...]

Microsoft Rumored To Announce Microsoft TV At CES

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The Consumer Electronics Show is set to open today and the buzz is all about Microsoft. The Internet giant has everyone’s attention at the world’s largest expo of electronic equipment because of expectations that they are going to announce a new television that can access the Internet running on its own version of Windows. This [...]

Microsoft Is Trying To Catch Up To The iPad

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Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, is set unveils new Microsoft tablet software during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the upcoming week. Critics doubt that Microsoft will be able to reduce Apples’ significant lead in the tablet market. The CES takes off on January 6th in Las Vegas. Microsoft is expected to preview a Windows [...]

Microsoft Joins The ARM’s Race

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Eyes are on Microsoft for the January Consumer Electronics Show. It seems that there are more than just a few rumors flying around about the software giant. First and foremost, Microsoft is going to debut a version of Windows that is compatible with ARM’s chip designs. This means that they will be able to bring [...]

Apple TV Reaches 1 Million Milestone

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On Tuesday, December 21, Apple shared the good news that it was predicting more than 1 million units of the Apple TV by the end of the week. The sales figures are for the 3 month period since the product’s launch. The Apple TV is a new product by Apple that focuses on streaming TV. [...]

Amazon Cloud Services To Offer Oracle Products

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Data intensive applications that require on-sight inputs haven’t traditionally been associated with workloads running on EC2. But Oracle applications are now compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. This step is a big improvement for Oracle. Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, firmly rejected cloud computing, saying his company is more comfortable in applications intended to run on-premises. [...]