“Watson” beta released, digital assistants are getting there?

Turning the concept of search on its head – The Boston Globe – Boston.com – Personal Tech – Business Watson, software produced by Chicago-based Intellext, does the searching for you. It runs in the background as you work, analyzing your documents and looking for relevant information. The results (clickable links) are continuously delivered in a […]

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investing for your future?

from Wired News Taking Stock of Life Extension Chronic disease can make for healthy investments: Investors who don’t operate on a multi-decade time frame would be wiser to focus on technologies that extend the life spans of unhealthy people. The longer we live, the more time we have to fall victim to cancer, diabetes, senility […]

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rise and rise of the virtual economy

from Wired 13.08: START The not-so-secret trick to succeeding at EverQuest, the popular multiplayer online game, is to hit the black market. In the thriving world of message boards and auction sites, players can buy and sell virtual in-game objects – weapons, currency, even whole characters – among themselves using real cash. But this summer, […]

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Cell-Phone Rappers Spit Grime

Wired News: Cell-Phone Rappers Spit Grime The success of a U.K. music genre known as grime, championed by the likes of Dizzee Rascal, has made rapping to mobile phones a popular pastime for a lot of British young people. On the street, cell phones enable impromptu rapping, or “spitting,” over music played through speaker phones. […]

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coming soon.. Nerd TV..

PBS | I, Cringely . July 7, 2005 – Pod Person NerdTV is pretty much as I described it back in 2002: a downloadable video show that features long-form interviews with notable nerds. I was definitely ahead of the curve with that download feature. What has changed about the show is just the episode length, […]

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