Turing Test Contest Proves Artificial Intelligence is Making Gains

The Loebner Prize contest was held in England this past weekend, where artificial intelligence machines were put to the test to see if they could convince judges that they were intelligent humans.  Based on...

Computer ‘Gold Farming’ Turning Virtual Reality into Real Profits

The rapid spread of the internet around the global South is bringing with it new forms of work. One of these trends is so-called “gold farming”: making money in the virtual world of computer gaming by trading...

Indian-American scientist working to tackle 'hot' laptops

Faster and greater processing speeds are producing hotter and hotter miniaturised computer models like the laptop.Read More:

IT Fallout of the Wall Street Crash

Wall Street's banking giants seek out the best computer equipment and the most robust networks that (lots and lots of ) money can buy. Now, as Lehman Bros and Merrill Lynch prepare for takeover, their IT...

The microchip celebrates 50th birthday

September the 12th 2008 - the 50th birthday of the microchip. If Jack Kilby had been allowed holiday leave we might never have got the microchip or at least not as soon. In 50 years the chip has changed the...

What Girls Want - The Form Factor Of New Media :: Symblogogy

"Jeff Moriarty, Intel’s Mobility Community Manager (center, left) leads a discussion on mobile internet devices and their form factor/function. Image Credit: IntelWhat Girls Want - The Form Factor Of New...

911 2.0: NYC's Multimedia Emergency Line

So maybe New York City's subway stations flood during a spring rain, and the streets smell like a wastebin, but the Big Apple's emergency hotline is next-level, becoming the first system to be able to process photo and video imagery from mobiel phone cameras."Tipsters in New...

Cyberwar fears grow after Georgia websites attacked

"Attacks that hit Georgian government and news websites after Russian tanks rolled across the border into South Ossettia last month have US officials concerned that bands of independent "cyber militias" will increasingly wield power over international relations. ...

Low cost Internet phone revolution beckons for India

The internet continues to revolutionize communications around the world; this is the Network Age."Under the plan proposed this week by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, people could call from their...

"Gruesome" Chinese Student Murder "Involved in Internet BETTING SCAM"

Detectives piecing together the motive for the murders of ex-Newcastle University students Yang Zhen Xing and girlfriend Xi Xhou say Yang may have been involved in an international BETTING SCAM on the internet....

FBI tries to fight zombie hordes

"The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes. The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread...

Beware Your Friends: Worm targets Facebook, MySpace

Leave it to malware creators to turn your Facebook session into a remake of The Thing. In this case, a new work replicates by nesting in a Facebook or MySpace account and then sending out copies of itself via the...

U.S. Agents Can Seize laptops,ipods,books

"U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday. Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, such...

NBC to Stream Olympics Live on Web

"NEW YORK Olympics fans will have a bevy of opportunities to get content from NBC Universal next month -- 2,200 hours of live online coverage, live events on their mobile phone and even a way to download coverage...

I can haz lolcode?

This site cracked me up when I first saw it. Someone has decided to make a real, working computer language from lolcat-ese. Hundreds of would-be programmers have embraced the idea and are in the process of...

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