AI Takes on Jeopardy (revisited)
There’s an earlier post here on this initiative at IBM, and the advancements continue. To me, this sort of natural-language …
High Speed Robotic Hand
The story I’m working on now isn’t about robots, but it does center around the extension of human capabilities through …
Nothing to See Here, Dept.
from The London Evening Standard 70-year gag on Kelly death evidence 24.01.10 Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons …
While we’re watching us, who’s watching them?
The quotation “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance“ has been attributed to a number of likely figures, including Jefferson, …
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The biggest scandal ever
Well, it certainly was at the time, but not anymore. “The Biggest Scandal Ever” was the New York Times headline …
Revolutionary Guards commander defies Khamenei’s orders
General Ali Fazli, who was recently appointed as a commander of the Revolutionary Guards in the province of Tehran, is …
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The Coming Superbrain
from John Markoff at The New York Times Artificial intelligence is back in fashion, which raises the question: Will computer …
Momentum Builds For Ron Paul’s Fed Transparency Act, HR 1207
The goal of this bill is simple: direct the Government Accountability Office to complete, before the end of 2010, an …
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Inside the bad-ass world of military research
Few science teams can match the flash and audacity of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Last week DARPA …
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The case of the missing H-bomb
I suppose the two books I’ve written (and the third that I’m working on now) are historical thrillers, in that …
G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’
from The Guardian An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an …
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