IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence supercomputer plays chess, searches out lung cancer cures and creates recipes like delicious BBQ sauce. But when Watson used its big silicon cabeza to come up with a burrito, Big Blue flunked the taste test.
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Behind the scenes with ‘Anonymous’ (animated GIF)
Not now, Mom — I’m saving the world!
(Photo by whatdoesthefawkessay.)
Meet your ‘average’ Mexican woman, and Peruvian and … (photos)
A University of Glasgow team of experimental psychologists blended thousands of faces together to reveal what the typical woman’s face looks like in 41 different countries from around the globe:
If you were described as average-looking, you probably wouldn’t see it as a compliment.
But perhaps you would be happy if you looked like any of these computer-generated depictions of the ‘average woman’.
With flawless skin, youthful faces and bright eyes – these average faces of women from around the world are nothing short of beautiful.
Mas…Meet your ‘average’ Mexican woman, and Peruvian and … (photos)
PNS*Hot*Flash: Chinese hackers infected laptop, local man says
(PNS reporting from TRENTON) “Chinese hackers infected my laptop and filled it with pornography,” an area beer sales executive told company help desk personnel yesterday. “I had no idea they could do that!”
Mark Mendoza, chief marketing officer for Buckman Brothers Beverages, said his company-issued Lenovo ThinkPad T530, a 15.6” powerhouse equipped with high productivity features and leading wireless options that keep him powered and unplugged around the clock, started acting strangely after a trip to CraftBrewCon2013 in Tallahassee last week.
Mas…PNS*Hot*Flash: Chinese hackers infected laptop, local man says
Porn video editor fired for browsing spreadsheets at work
(PNS reporting from VAN NUYS) Adult movie editor Roberto Mendoza was fired from his job at Burning Sensations Movie Productions last week after being repeatedly caught browsing spreadsheets on his computer.
“It started innocently enough,” he told PNS. “There I was editing a facial pop shot compilation from our Fish Tacos series, when I noticed someone had left a spreadsheet of sales figures in with the video files.”
“I’d always been a little…curious. I took a break from Final Cut Pro and opened up the file, and suddenly my screen was filled with all these rigid columns of data.”
A spokesman from Burning Sensations said that following his dismissal, an inspection of Mendoza’s computer had revealed a hidden folder containing over 3,000 spreadsheets.
Mas…Porn video editor fired for browsing spreadsheets at work
Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy (video)
Don’t say we didn’t tell you – especially the part about the brain bank cities on the dark side of the Moon! (NSFW language.)
Letters Ñ, ¡ and ¿ sue computer keyboard makers for bias
(PNS reporting from SILICON VALLEY) Attorneys for typographical characters including enya (Ñ), the inverted exclamation mark (¡) and the inverted question mark (¿) accused major computer keyboard makers of deliberately ignoring their clients’ needs in a relentless race for profits in a class action suit filed here today.
“It’s a case of acquisitiveness over accents,” visibly-angry lead attorney Cuauhtémoc Basta-Piñata (photo, above) told reporters as he emerged from the court clerk’s office. “The key cap cartels make us jump through hoops just to get ourselves equal time in the public eye, all to save a few pennies on costs.”
Basta-Piñata represents the Front for Acceptance of Character Equality (FACE). Plaintiffs in the suit also include transgender characters like И and Я as well as bi-textual characters like Ǽ and Œ.
Mas…Letters Ñ, ¡ and ¿ sue computer keyboard makers for bias