Stage set for a rematch as Polaris falls to poker professionals

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It came down to the eleventh hour, but the humans finally prevailed in the $50,000, man-versus-machine poker playoff.


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Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant

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(AP) -- Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it?

Boston University partners in NSF challenge to create wireless network using visible light

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Boston University's College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead ...

CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing

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The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider ...

EBay cuts 10 percent of workforce

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Online auction giant eBay Inc. announced on Monday that it was cutting 1,000 permanent employees and several hundred temporary workers, about 10 percent of its global workforce.

Hitachi unveils ultra-fast search of recordings

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Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it has developed technology that makes it possible to find a single word in 2,000 hours of recorded material through a search of just three seconds.
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