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Jeopardy contestants Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter, right, preparing to play the computer NOVA.

What is a blowout? Computer destroys humans at Jeopardy!

After dominating 74-game Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings and all-time Jeopardy! money-winner Brad Rutter for two consecutive nights, IBM supercomputer Watson emerged victorious following Wednesday's overall total earnings, proving once and for all that (some) machines are indeed smarter than human beings.


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The Treasury Board of Canada confirmed Wednesday night that the department had suffered "an unauthorized attempt to access its networks," after a CBC report said a cyber attack originating in China had compromised the emails of top-ranking government officials.
 
 

Call of Duty

 
 
Call of Duty is easily most popular video game franchise around. There have been seven major Call of Duty games released over the last ten years and almost every single one has received critical praise. So how can such a critically acclaimed and financially successful game ultimately change the gaming landscape for the worse?
 
 

From the Blogs

 

DC Universe Online Journal Issue # 2 - Welcome to Gotham!

Hello, I'm Wade Barrett. Welcome to Gotham! A wonderful place to live, raise kids and live in the shadow of crime and corruption! What's that? ...

 

Damn you auto correct: Auto text correction fatal for British man

Up until now, auto correct on text messages has been at best funny and at worst embarrassing. That's changed with the death of a British man, who ...

 

Cell phone pricing war brewing?

With earnings out today, it seems Rogers is the biggest loser in the most recent battle of the telcos, at least when you look at the subscribers that ...

 

Best of YouTube

 

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Best of YouTube: Week of February 14, 2011

Here's a look at the latest videos making the rounds on YouTube this week.

 
 

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Personal Tech

 
 

Cellphones

Elderly Cellphone

New mobile can check pulse, send ambulance

As the mobile world booms with complex technological smartphones and tablets, two rival firms are carving up a growing but largely ignored market for the elderly.


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Gizmos & Gadgets

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New mobiles have gadgets for the elderly

As the mobile world booms with complex technological smartphones and tablets, two rival firms are carving up a growing but largely ignored market for the elderly.


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Gizmos & Gadgets

LG "Optimus 3D"

LG to launch 3D smartphone experience

3D may finally go mainstream, or so consumer electronics giant LG hopes, when it puts a smartphone in users' hands this year allowing them to create and view 3D content without glasses.


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Windows Phone 7

ST-Ericsson: ready on WP7 when Nokia is

ST-Ericsson is focusing strongly on Microsoft's platform to deliver chips and will be ready when Nokia ramps up production of new Windows Phones, the chief executive of the mobile


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Google

US state scrutinizes Google search tactics

The top attorney for the state of Texas on Wednesday revealed a list of demands for inside information intended to ferret out whether Google abused its power in the online search ad arena.


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Mummy Toe

Egyptian mummy's big toe oldest known prosthesis

A superbly preserved artificial big toe found strapped to the mummified remains of an Egyptian woman is the oldest functional prosthesis ever found, experts said Monday.


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Yushin Maru

Japan whalers suspend Antarctic hunt

Japanese whalers have suspended their Antarctic hunt, citing harassment by environmentalists, and are considering ending their annual mission early, a fisheries agency official said on Wednesday.


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International Space Station

Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space

Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday.


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Blogs

 

Bits and Bytes

This blog is a safe haven for people attending Internet Addicts...


 

Dark Matter

Let's skip the heavy lifting in science. Dark Matter takes you...


 

Digital Life

The Vancouver Sun's Gillian Shaw and her take on the latest ...


 

Technocité

Roberto Rocha started this blog to keep geeks in the know of...


 

Button Mash

Ben Gelinas and friends leap headlong into the world of video...


 

Bits and Bytes

This blog is a safe haven for people attending Internet Addicts...


 
 

Gaming

 
 

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Live

Gaming wars go mobile

The video game wars are going mobile. Sony Ericsson packed a PlayStation pad into its latest smartphone, unveiled this week at the mobile industry's annual get-together in Barcelona.


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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson dance moves hit Kinect in April

Ubisoft on Thursday announced an April 12 release date for a Michael Jackson video game that challenges Xbox 360 players to dance like the King of Pop.


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Just Dance

Millions take to floor in ‘Just Dance’ videogame

Ubisoft on Tuesday announced that it had sold more than five million copies of the latest version of a "Just Dance" video game tailored for play on Nintendo’s motion-sensing Wii consoles.


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