Ken Jennings / Slate:
Jeopardy! genius Ken Jennings on what it’s like to play against a supercomputer. — When I was selected as one of the two human players to be pitted against IBM’s “Watson” supercomputer in a special man-vs.-machine Jeopardy! exhibition match, I felt honored, even heroic.
I still don’t sense an urgency to fix the problem,” said Hoekstra, R-Michigan. Hoekstra spoke after attending a high-level meeting to discuss the government computer security breach exposed by WikiLeaks. “I think that there are still other government …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Qwiki Just May Be The Future Of Information Consumption. And It’s Here Now. — In the late 1980s, Apple created a few concept videos about a device they called the Computer Knowledge Navigator. These videos came up recently when Apple unveiled the iPad, because the machine in the videos is a tablet computer.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
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