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<item><title>IBM`s Watson to Help in Fight Against Cancer</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:53:56 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[In taking on its new role, Watson gained quite an education: it took in data from 1,500 lung cancer cases from Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital and assimilated more than two million pages of text from 42 medical journals. Its capability to analyze natural language, put most memorably on display during its stint on Jeopardy, allows it to answer questions by looking in its vast data set for patterns and relationships. By examining the information in its data set - far more than any single human can integrate - Watson may find connections in answer to a question that might otherwise be missed. S...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Apple Doubles iPad Max Storage</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:29:03 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[You can get the full story over at Computerworld. Basically, starting February 5, you'll be able to get a fourth-generation iPad with 128 GB of storage space. If you're okay with just Wi Fi, you can expect to pay $799; if you want one that can take advantage of cellular networks, you're looking at spending $929. That stacks up to paying roughly $100 more for twice the storage space of the former maxed-out iPad models.  That may or may not be a bargain. Computerworld ran some interesting numbers that show Apple may be making even more of a profit off the new iPad models than it is off the other...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Intel Exiting PC Motherboard Business</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:13:52 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[AnandTech reported on Intel's announcement. If you hope to score your own desktop mlTX/mATX/ATX motherboard from the chip maker, you'd better do it this year. After 2013, Intel will only be producing desktop chipsets for third party motherboard makers like ASUS and Gigabyte. Intel's entire desktop PC motherboard business will be gradually stepped down over three years. The last official Intel motherboard will be the Haswell. It's worth noting, by the way, that the company still plans to stand behind their desktop PC motherboards with a full warranty during the period in which they'll be rampin...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>CES 2013 Brings New Toys, Devices, More</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:10:16 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lenovo came out with a big new tablet computer. And when we say big, we mean big - twenty-seven inches big. It's an attempt to marry a traditional desktop to a tablet, and intended to be used either flat on a table or supported upright with a hinge. (Good thing, because my arms were aching just thinking about holding it up!). Dubbed the IdeaCentre Horizon, the device will support up to a 1 TB hard drive and boasts an Intel processor. It features multi-touch capability, and was designed with the idea that more than one person will use the device at the same time. It runs Windows 8. Lenovo expec...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>IBM Predicts Computers With Five Senses</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:52:37 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[You can check out the report itself. If you read the introductory paragraph covering each sense, it's an easy skim; you can also choose to delve a bit deeper with the connected videos and the links that lead to more information on each section. I highly recommend delving deeper; there's some really good food for thought there, as well as technical explanations that detail where we are, where IBM thinks we'll be in five years, and how we'll get there. My first reaction upon seeing this, of course, was to wonder if having five senses like humans would make computers more human. It turns out, tho...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>An Ugly Side to Gaming`s Boy`s Club</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:20:36 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video games make for great entertainment – in fact, they're one of the fastest growing forms of mass media today. So it shouldn't surprise anyone when Anita Sarkeesian, noted feminist and activist, started a Kickstarter campaign to help her fund a series of videos studying the portrayal of women in video games. How many gamers reacted to this, however, wasn't pretty.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Anita Sarkeesian gave a talk on the topic at TEDxWomen this year. The video went up early this month; check it out at the link. In less than 11 minutes, you'll find out what lengths your fellow gamers will go to in an attempt to silence dissent before it even has a chance to take off.  A little background: for the past four years, Sarkeesian has been running an online video series on YouTube called Feminist Frequency, where she examines  the way women are represented in media. The series of videos the Kickstarter campaign was to fund were a side project primed to study how women are represente...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Latest iMac Not For Tinkerers</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:31:58 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can hardly blame you if you saw those gorgeously slender new iMac all-in-one computers and started lusting after them. Coming in 21.5 inch and 27 inch models that are only 5 millimeters thick at the edges, this Apple creation is nothing short of sexy. Like many sexy things, however, you'll find it's very high maintenance if you like to tinker.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[At least, that seems to be the verdict from the crew over at ifixit. Seeing the lovely new 21.5 inch iMac, they had to take it apart to see what made it tick. If you like taking things apart too, be aware that you'd be in for a wild ride with this iMac; in addition to the expected screwdrivers, ifixit's tool list for this job included heavy duty suction cups, guitar picks, a spudger, and a heat gun. Not pretty. So what interesting discoveries did ifixit make? Well, to start with, though the edges of the iMac are really thin, its thickest point is more than four centimeters, which is over eight...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Wii U Offers Secretly Cool Features</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:30:02 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not understand right away what's special about the Wii U. What's the big deal about having a small tablet as a controller and a second screen? Quite simply, it solves problems and opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ben Kuchera of the Penny Arcade Report weighed in after playing with the Wii U in his home for several days. As he pointed out, the gaming device's virtues aren't obvious right away. Commercials for it show how easily one can switch from playing a game on a TV screen to the Wii U tablet whenever someone wants to use that big screen to watch a program or DVD. But there is so much more it can do. Say you have more people than TVs in your house, and you can't agree on what to watch. The Wii U tablet effectively gives you an extra screen.  Once the system's updates go live you'll be able to watch ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Intel Unveils Itanium 9500 Processors</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:04:14 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel's newest chips might be good for your computer – even though they're not actually going into your machine. The new Itanium 9500 processors, launched by the chip manufacturer today, are designed for the likes of mission-critical data centers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why should you care? It's very simple: these are exactly the kinds of installations becoming more and more common now that so many of us are doing so much of our computing in the cloud. And if you work for a company that uses a data center in any way, you'll be interested to know that a number of Intel partners already boast machines with Itanium 9500 series chips at their hearts. These partners include such obscure names as Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Hitachi, Bull (based in France) and Inspur (based in China).  You may have heard of chips codenamed Poulson; they evolved into the Itanium 9500. And ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Apple iPad Mini Release No Big Deal</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:04:32 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day Apple chose to release its new iPad Mini, but you'd hardly know it. With New York recovering from Hurricane Sandy and a closely-fought presidential election running right down to the wire, hardly anyone is lining up for the new device.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Larry Dignam at CNet is not surprised. Purely aside from the other major issues dominating the news, the iPad Mini itself isn't exactly the best example of Apple thinking outside the box.  The product isn't revolutionary, has a defined role, and is saddled with a price that just doesn't scream value,  he pointed out. Yes, you can use all the same apps on the iPad Mini that you can use on the regular iPads. Yes, its 7.9 inch LED backlit display is a thing of beauty; you can even use it to make FaceTime calls. It's only three quarters as thick and half as heavy as its bigger brothers. It boasts ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Latest Apple Offerings: iPad Mini, Redesigned iMac, More</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confirming months of rumors, Apple unveiled a smaller version of its iPad at a media event this week. Designed to compete with tablets from other companies, this smaller device comes out just in time for those of us who like to start our holiday shopping a little early.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[So much for all those statements by Steve Jobs that his company would never produce an iPad mini. Apple CEO Tim Cook trotted out the new $329 device with a smile while VP of marketing Phil Schiller noted that  You knew there'd be something called Mini in this presentation.  (Okay, that's not exactly how it went, but work with me here!). But let's get to the specs. The iPad mini is 7.2 mm thick - thinner than all but the thinnest pencil leads. It boasts the same 1,024 x 768 resolution as its bigger brother, but the smaller screen should make it appear even sharper. Best of all, it can and will ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>First Kinect, Now Digits: Microsoft Advances Gesture Recognition</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:33:02 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you rush out and buy a Kinect system from Microsoft when it became available? Have you enjoyed using your body as the controller? Do you wonder what Microsoft's next gaming advance will be? Meet Digit, a prototype that could be used for a lot more than just entertainment.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[I admit, I was pretty skeptical about Kinect myself until I actually played a few games on the system at a nearby science museum. I couldn't stop smiling - or sweating; I felt like I got a real workout. Even so, I noticed one big issue: the Kinect doesn't seem to handle fine motor movements very well. It might have been my lack of experience - but if it wasn't, is Microsoft addressing this problem? It looks as if they are. According to Dvice, the software giant created a prototype for something they're calling Digits. Essentially, it's a bracelet attached to an infrared camera and an infrared ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Meet Baxter, Your New Robot Co-Worker</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most robots work in factories in cages or behind glass walls, separated from people for safety reasons. But Boston-based start-up Rethink Robotics believes it's time to change that. The company created Baxter to help bring their new vision for robots and humans working together to life.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rethink Robotics' home page currently features a great picture of Baxter. He's no Data or C3PO, of course, but the almost curious expression in the eyes on his display screen and those bright red metal limbs make him seem almost personable. And that's the company's intention. Baxter is designed to work alongside humans. Because of this, the robot features lots of safety controls and mechanisms. Put your hand (or head) in the path of Baxter's large arms, and you'll feel the smallest of nudges. That's because the arm is equipped to sense obstacles and react appropriately to them.  A non-technica...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Apple Unveils iPhone 5</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:10:18 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, Apple took the wraps off of the eagerly-awaited iPhone 5. Just how is it better than the previous iPhone? And what about the rest of the competition? Keep reading.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[For those of you who just know you're going to want it, I'll start with the prices. The iPhone 5 will be available in 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB versions for $199, $299 and $399 (in US dollars) respectively. You can pre-order it on September 14 (that's this Friday), and it begins shipping one week later.  Now for the next important question: why would you want to pre-order it? I can't answer that question, but I can tell you that Apple has tweaked and improved nearly everything over the previous iPhone model. To start with, it's even thinner, at 0.29 inches (7.6 millimeters) and lighter, at 3.95 ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Apple`s Victory over Samsung: What it Means</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Mobile-Devices/Apples-Victory-over-Samsung-What-it-Means/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[So it's official: a jury awarded Apple more than one billion dollars in damages to be paid by Samsung, because the latter company infringed a number of Apple's iPhone-related patents. So what does this mean for the future of mobile phones? That seems to depend on who you ask.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[First, let's address the ruling itself. After deliberating for three days, during which they faced 109 pages of instructions and had to fill out a 700-item questionnaire, the nine-person jury found Samsung guilty of violating six out of seven Apple patents. These patents covered both the way the device is used and its design.  So Apple basically claimed that only its own devices should allow you to enlarge documents by double tapping the screen. And displays that  bounce back  when you scroll to the top or bottom of a web page? Yeah, that's an Apple exclusive. How about the ability to distingu...]]></content:encoded>
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