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IBM's supercomputer Watson can do a lot more than win chess games and defeat Jeopardy contestants. The machine is now taking on its biggest challenge yet: fighting cancer. If you're one of those people who can never have enough memory, tablet-based computers may finally be catching up with your needs. Apple just unveiled versions of its wildly popular iPad with double the storage of its former maximum. The end of an era is approaching. Thanks in part to the overwhelming popularity of tablets and smartphones, chip manufacturer Intel is planning to stop making desktop PC motherboards. It's early January, and all technology geeks know what that means: it's time for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As you might expect, there's a flood of news coming out of the Nevada desert. Here are some highlights. This week, IBM released its annual “5 by 5” report. This is a look at the top five ways that computing will change over the next five years. This year, the company chose to examine the ways in which we'll expand the ability of computers to process different kinds of data – specifically, the kind of data that humans receive through their five senses. |
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