Robert Sloan, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has found an AI system to be as smart as a four-year-old. Scientists often talk about creating artificial intelligence, but how "intelligent" are these systems really? ...
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Samsung's upcoming ATIV Q convertible tablet is versatile: The 13.3-in. device runs two operating systems, Windows 8 and Android, and it can unfold to function as a laptop with a physical qwerty keyboard. But while that versatility may ...
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Hoping to save money on labor, China's Foxconn Technology Group could also be ushering in a new era of manufacturing as it sets its sites on putting 1 million robots to work. The world's largest contract electronics maker already has ...
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Hewlett-Packard plans to stop supporting the venerable operating system OpenVMS in 2020. Long valued for its reliability and renowned for breakthrough features, OpenVMS came into being in October 1977, when Digital Equipment Corp. started ...
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MICROSOFT has slashed prices of its Surface RT tables in Australia by up to 30 per cent, a saving of $170 locally. The price cuts are part of a global response to lacklustre sales and a concern about the RT's inability to run standard ...
The US has blocked proposals for tough new global rules intended to reduce the tax avoidance policies of multinational companies, such as Apple, Amazon and Google. Instead, watered down proposals will be presented to the G20 summit this ...
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Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first ...
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In another example of the consumerization of IT, people have embraced cloud storage and file sharing services like Dropbox both at home and at work, and CIOs better take notice about this trend, according to a Forrester Research report. ...
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AT&T plans to acquire Leap Wireless, operator of the Cricket prepaid mobile service, in what would be the latest consolidation of the U.S. mobile industry. AT&T announced late Friday it has agreed to acquire Leap for $15 per share, nearly ...
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Microsoft is reportedly moving ahead quickly on development of a smartwatch, having reached the prototype stage with a 1.5-in. device running on a modified Windows 8 housed in a translucent aluminum case. In addition to a housing made of ...
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Oracle is introducing a new generation of its Exalytics appliance for high-speed data analysis that comes with a slightly higher price tag but major increases in memory and storage capacity. Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4, which was ...
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The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services, and in-app advertising is expected to double to $151 billion in the U.S. by 2017, AppNation said today. According to the research firm, the largest segment of ...
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Apple is said to be "aggressively" hiring specialists from outside the company to join its wearable "smartwatch" technology project, dubbed the "iWatch". According to the Financial Times, a senior team member had to be persuaded to stick ...
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Apple is reportedly looking to purchase the company behind the Kinect sensor, the motion controller for Microsoft's Xbox 360. PrimeSense, a semiconductor chip manufacturing company based in Israel, licensed the hardware design and chip ...
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Silicon Valley veteran Diane Greene, one of the co-founders of VMware, is returning to the industry with a new start-up called Datrium, a company that is only now emerging from "stealth mode". Datrium, according to Greene, will provide an ...