Daily Archives: October 13, 2008

I for one welcome our robot overlords

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Jeff

AIs are get­ting closer and closer to pass­ing the Tur­ing test. Note that every AI man­aged to fool at least one human judge. Sci­en­tists at the Uni­ver­sity of Read­ing tested five machines to see if they could pass them­selves off as … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Well, that was quick…

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Jeff

Looks like the hon­ey­moon is already over for Chrome. After its launch to a frenzy of news cov­er­age Chrome peaked with a 3.1% share of the browser mar­ket. Since then it’s been a steady decline, down to just over 1.5%. And it looks … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Are netbooks recession-​proof?

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Jeff

Jason Per­low has an inter­est­ing arti­cle over on ZDnet about how the eco­nomic cri­sis might spur IT inno­va­tion to save costs. He’s focused mostly on a top-​down, enterprise-​focused “how the heck can we afford this dat­a­cen­ter” per­spec­tive, but it got me … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Proof that some Republicans are just thugs

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Jeff

And sore losers, too, appar­ently. And the elec­tion hasn’t even hap­pened yet. DENVER (AP) — Democratic Party offi­cials say a sec­ond brick has been thrown through a win­dow at Demo­c­ra­tic Party head­quar­ters in Den­ver. Spokesman Matt Far­rauto says the brick had the word “mav­er­ick” writ­ten … Con­tinue read­ing →

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