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Playtime With the First Toy Powered by IBM Watson
All of our devices are getting a dose of “smart,” including our children’s toys.A NYC-based company is developing CogniToys—a line of fun and interactive educational toys packed with personalty, jokes and facts. Their premiere toy is a friendly green dinosaur that is the first toy ever to be powered by IBM Watson, the AI computer that won $1 million on Jeopardy!. The company, Elemental Path, launched their Kickstarter campaign today, but we stopped by their Midtown office last week where...
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Inside the world’s quietest room
Deep below Zurich, IBM has built the stillest, most shielded rooms in the world. By Sebastian Anthony.
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IBM unlocks the secret to carbon nanotube transistors
Smaller, faster, more powerful computers?
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IBM to Acquire the Weather Company
IBM hopes it has a new use for Watson, its artificial intelligence business. The company announced on Wednesday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire most of the assets of the Weather Company, including its Weather.com website, a large number of weather data collection points, consumer and business applications and a staff of over 900 people.
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IBM's Watson using data to transform health care
IBM Watson once won $1 million playing "Jeopardy." Soon, it could be helping your doctor read your X-rays. IBM Watson Health aims to make sense of a growing pool of health care-related data to help patients and providers make better decisions. Deborah DiSanzo, former CEO of Philips Healthcare, was named its head and general manager in September. Since April, the health unit has added 100 companies to what IBM calls Ecosystem, allowing them to...
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Hack a hairdryer: Campaign aimed at women suddenly backfires
After running for a couple of months more or less unnoticed online, IBM's "hack a hairdryer" campaign suddenly attracted a barrage of criticism by Twitter users who called it patronising and sexist - and the company has now apologised. A video created by American computing giant IBM aimed to "reengineer misperceptions about women in tech, and to focus on what really matters in science". Women working in science and tech were asked to "hack a hair dryer", then share their work on the IBM website.
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CELIA: The Next Generation of Watson
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X Prize and IBM announce a $5 million artificial intelligence competition
The X Prize Foundation and IBM have just announced a new global X Prize competition with a focus on artificial intelligence.
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Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
Last week, IBM reported to investors that its workforce at the end of 2015 was almost as big as its workforce at the end of 2014 (within less than 1 percent), in spite of a year in which 70,000 employees left the company, to be replaced with new hires and acquisitions. By the end of this week, the picture may look quite different. Today reports are coming in that big layoffs across the United States are underway, likely one-third of the U.S. workforce...
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IBM Announces Magic Bullet To Zap All Kinds of Killer Viruses
Working with Singapore researchers, IBM has engineered a chemical that blocks viruses like Zika, Ebola, dengue, influenza, herpes, and more.
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IBM Patents Printer That Doesn't Copy Infringing Content
IBM has submitted an application to expand its portfolio with a rather peculiar patent. To protect rightsholders the technology company has invented a printer that doesn't copy or print any copyright infringing text or images. Every week hundreds of million of people copy and print documents, even though they officially don’t always have the rights to do so. This unauthorized printing can be problematic for copyright holders, such as book authors, IBM says, and this...
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Secret's out — Environment Canada has a New Supercomputer to Forecast the Weather
Environment Canada's meteorological service has a powerful new supercomputer to help it more accurately forecast the weather — the government just doesn't want you to know about it yet.
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IBM just patented Out of Office email, and no we’re not kidding
But they've decided to "dedicate the patent to the public."
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IBM will sell 50-qubit universal quantum computer “in the next few years”
IBM has solved most of the science behind quantum computing. Time to make some money.
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IBM has figured out how to store data on a single atom
Big things really can come in small packages. IBM announced it has managed to successfully store data on a single atom for the first time. The research, carried out at the computing giant’s Almaden lab in Silicon Valley, was published in the scientific journal Nature March 8, and could have massive implications for the way we’ll store digital information in the future. Computers process bits, pieces of information that have two states—on or off, interpreted as 1s and os by the machine. Every computer program, tweet, email, Facebook, and Quartz post, is made up of some long series of 1s and 0s.
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IBM had filmmakers teach its Watson AI how to make movies
IBM and the Tribeca Film Festival asked a small but prestigious group of artists and scientists to help make the Watson supercomputer a better storyteller.
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IBM unveils new mainframe capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions a day
IBM has launched a new mainframe system capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day, in a bid to wade further into the financial cybersecurity market. The mainframe, called IBM Z, seeks to address cyberattacks which have compromised financial data. It also aims to help firms automate financial regulatory compliance, in line with confidentiality and data protection laws.
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Berkshire Hathaway doubles down on Apple stock and dumps IBM
Warren Buffett's conglomerate has increased its stake in Apple — and gotten rid of almost its entire IBM stake — a big move for a legendary investor who rarely bets on tech. Berkshire Hathaway revealed Wednesday that it increased its Apple holdings by 23.3 percent to 165.3 million shares, according to SEC filings, and dumped about 94.5 percent of its IBM holdings, leaving just 2.05 million shares.
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IBM has made a computer that’s smaller than a grain of salt
Chip is so tiny you’ll need a microscope to see it
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Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling
Apple and IBM may seem like an odd couple, but the two companies have been working closely together for several years now. That has involved IBM sharing its enterprise expertise with Apple and Apple sharing its design sense with IBM. The companies have actually built hundreds of enterprise apps running on iOS devices. Today, they took that friendship a step further when they announced they were providing a way to combine IBM Watson machine learning with Apple Core ML to make the business apps running on Apple devices all the more intelligent.
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