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IBM’s Jeopardy-winning AI is one step closer to reality

Can Watson, the Jeopardy-winning computer whose software enables it to learn from past experience, become of one of the biggest inventions in IBM's 103-year history? That is the question IBM executives are asking themselves...

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Microsoft is pulling Security Essentials from Windows XP

Most people are aware that Microsoft will end support for Windows XP on April 8th and that Microsoft Security Essentials will stop getting definition updates. However,  it came as a...

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Apple users spent over $10 billion at the App Store last year

Apple today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone. App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps...

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Apple acquires developer of rapid-fire camera app

Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam. The startup was founded and run solely by John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineering PhD from the University Of Melbourne who invented...

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Will really Chromebooks be able to replace Windows PCs?

As Google continues to update both ChromeOS and its own cloud services, Chromebooks are starting to look less like a glorified web browsing machine and more like a potential replacement for...

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Intel promises “innovative wearable devices” at CES 2014

After taking a brief dip inside the TV market, Intel has decided to focus more attention on wearable devices. Intel has already confirmed that it has been experimenting with smartwatches...

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Sony claims that consoles can can benefit from mobile gaming

In recent years, mobile gaming has risen to dominate the gaming market, exceeding both console gaming and PC gaming in terms or revenue. While this may worry non-mobile gaming companies,...

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Microsoft creates new programming language called M#

Midori, a non-Windows operating system that Microsoft has been developing since 2008, has spawned a new programming language reportedly called M#. The new language strives to strike a balance between performance and safety/productivity....

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LG will be bringing its popular Knock tech to all future phones

LG's intuitive display-waking tech called Knock will be coming to all of the company's future phones. The UI tool allows users to turn the display on and off simply by double...

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Amazon gifting $5 to people who download an app from its AppStore

Amazon will celebrate Christmas by handing out $5 store credits to anyone who downloads an app from its Amazon Appstore. It can even be a free app, so the deal...

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