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...Cory Doctorow is a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a visiting professor of computer science at the Open University....
...Watson says the industry was prepared to spend $20bn upfront, because they believed scaling up could occur at marginal costs. “That’s turning out to be not the case,” Watson says....
...Then, in 2010, the IBM Watson AI system for answering questions in natural language was put to the test on the US TV quiz show Jeopardy and won top prize....
...Back on the streets, the PCs I chatted to this week remained stoic....
...Hobby magazines have always coaxed readers into spending money but Future, the publisher behind titles such as Homes & Gardens and PC Gamer, has turned this into more than a side hustle....
...A boom in PC sales, surging demand for video-gaming and increased usage of cloud services are expected to drive up revenues for Microsoft....
...Insurers and brokers said that as the system could be used on standard PCs and laptops from home, they were now working at close to full capacity....
...Mr Fisher, a former policy officer at the PCS union, pulled together the Labour manifesto in the 2017 election which was widely credited with gaining the party seats....
...(FT) Booker backs Biden Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey endorsed former vice-president Joe Biden for president on Monday....
...Some figures such as deputy leader Tom Watson, believe the party should back remaining in the EU at a referendum. Others, including Mr Corbyn, insist the party should maintain its ambiguous stance....
...The company has already received $45m from its insurers, and Verisk PCS, an analytics group, thinks the final total could be much higher — potentially up to $275m....
...I have long wondered if the day will come when you ask your PC to do something tedious, only for it to answer: “No, I’m too intelligent. Do it yourself.”...
...Nor is there much trust between Mr Corbyn and Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson. The rapid start to the campaign saw some teething problems along the way....
...IBM’s marketing success with Watson, meanwhile, has strengthened that company’s AI reputation among corporate customers....
...You don’t need it when a PC is a PC — and you don’t need to change it if I’m a man or a woman — but it is different if I’m wearing it,” she said....
...vice-chair, public policy, EY 3 Paul Reed , chief executive, integrated supply trading, BP 4 Claudia Brind-Woody , vice-president and managing director, intellectual property licensing, IBM 5 Anthony Watson...
...IBM’s Watson shake-up Predicting earthquakes should help Big Blue sell Watson’s artificial intelligence to the corporate world....
...Asus, the Taiwanese PC maker, is expanding into other areas, from smartwatches to a smart television device made for Google....
...When the iPad came out, scifi writer and blogger Cory Doctorow excoriated it, writing that it betrayed “a palpable contempt for the owner....
...of PC hardware and Microsoft’s massively profitable operating system monopoly....
...IBM is pinning its hopes for a revival on developing ever more advanced artificial intelligence after its success with Watson. Has it forgotten HAL 9000?...
...to respond vigorously to inflation increases triggered by higher oil prices but has responded less to unexpected declines in inflation following oil price declines (Kilian, 2014; Bernanke, Gertler, and Watson...
...It is tempting to look at PCs and TVs – hardware markets where margins have been largely competed away – as inherently bad businesses....
...At the time, its mainframe computing empire was threatened by the proliferation of low-cost PCs and servers – the so-called “client/server” era that eventually exploded with the rise of the internet....
...The shift of computing to the cloud is as significant as the client-server revolution that accompanied the rise of the PC....
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