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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook prepping photo-sharing iPhone app]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Facebook is working on a photo-sharing application for theiPhone, TechCrunch is reporting.The technology news site claims it has acquired a 50MB file containing images and documents that describe in detail a Facebook application that will allow users to share photos with others. TechCrunch did not reveal too many details on the service, saying only that the app &quot;appears to be Path meets Instagram meets Color meets With.&quot;Path is a social network for a person and his or her closest 50 friends, while Instagram offers photo sharing on the iPhone. Color allows users to take photos, videos, and conversations from different devices and combine all those into a group album. With is &quot;a fun, simple way to share who you're with.&quot;Perhaps the most surprising takeaway from TechCrunch's report is that the alleged app won't be integrated into Facebook's existing iPhone program. Instead, the service will be a standalone option for users that leverages Facebook's social graph.For its part, Facebook hasn't announced anything related to a photo-sharing app, and the social network declined to comment on TechCrunch's story. However, the company has been interested in photo sharing in the past. Last year, Facebook acquired photo-sharing service Divvyshot for an undisclosed sum. Divvyshot, which allowed users to engage in group photo sharing and editing, was subsequently shut down.TechCrunch is promising more details on Facebook's supposedly new app in the coming days.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Sony to strike with 'Thunderbolt' laptop]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony is readying a &quot;hybrid&quot; Vaio laptop equipped with Intel's Thunderbolt tech, according to a report. Sony is perfectly capable of making very thin laptops like the Vaio X series.(Credit:Sony)Thunderbolt, formerly known by its codename Light Peak, is a new connection technology that combines high-speed data transfer and high-definition video on a single cable. The Intel-developed technology has come to market through a technical collaboration with Apple and is being made available first on Apple's new line of MacBook Pro laptop computers. Though Sony did not publicly endorse Thunderbolt at the Intel roll-out last month, the company has previously offered public support for the technology. &quot;Sony is excited about the potential for Light Peak technology that Intel has been developing, and believes it could enable a new generation of high-speed device connectivity,&quot; Ryosuke Akahane, vice president of the Vaio Business Group at Sony, said in a statement that was posted last year on Intel's Web site. The rumored Thunderbolt-packing hybrid Vaio &quot;consists of two components,&quot; according to Sony Insider. &quot;There is an actual notebook that will be pretty thin, featuring...Thunderbolt, that same interface that current MacBook Pros are sporting,&quot; the Web site says. Sony Insider goes on to list other specifications, including an Intel Wireless Display, a solid-state drive, Core i7 processor, no optical drive, HDMI output with 3D support, and battery life ranging from 8 to 16.5 hours. It will weigh in at about 2.5 pounds. Here's the most interesting part. The second component--which the main laptop hooks up to via a Sony connector--will have a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) from Advanced Micro Devices, a Blu-ray drive, HDMI output, VGA output, Ethernet port, and USB, according to Sony Insider. If this Vaio materializes, the MacBook Air will get another worthy competitor like the Samsung 9 Series. And here's an interesting thought. Will the upcoming refresh of the MacBook Air get Thunderbolt like its Pro cousins Apple could certainly pull it off. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to ease into Google Voice: Freeze your cell phone service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)You can listen to Google Voice messages from your smartphone, can dial out using your Google number on an Android phone, and can finally port your own cell phone number to Google Voice. But if you're not quite ready to cut the cord with your carrier, you don't have to.Google Voice has a vast number of benefits, from managing voice mail in an inbox to placing free texts. However, there still are some flaws--barely legible voice transcription and mobile app SMS delays to name two (I know, I know, not everyone experiences the same issues)--and the way I use it for work, it frustrates my friends). I'm also hesitant to leave the reliability of my monthly cell phone service and my special rate. The middle path There is, however, a third way, one that lets you ease into Google Voice--or ease out of your monthly service--before completely ditching your carrier plan. I discovered it accidentally when calling T-Mobile to cancel a service I now rarely use. I was adamant about canceling service, until the tenacious customer service rep offered me this: temporarily suspending my plan for a nominal, $10-per-month holding fee while I decided what to do. (If you already knew about this, good for you.) As it turns out, T-Mobile will hold a phone number and rate plan for six months. In my case, the T-Mobile rep said, suspending my plan will also count toward my contractual obligation, a cheap way for me to pay out the remainder of my agreement without handing over a stiff early termination fee.This isn't always the case, I found out--your expiration date may or may not move depending on a number of factors that the T-Mobile rep did not disclose, so you'll need to check with your carrier to see if you can dodge a termination fee should you bail before time's up.T-Mobile isn't alone in this provision. Verizon, AT&amp;amp'T, and Sprint also offer temporary plan suspension.You're suspended!Verizon will suspend a phone line without billing for up to 180 days--as long as you're all paid up. That means you can pick up on your plan where you left off, including the contract termination date. It's ideal for long vacations. You can also suspend with billing, which will work toward the end-of-contract date.Sprint will extend a Seasonal Standby mode for customers who have been paying their plan for a minimum of three months. You pay $8.99 per month for up to six consecutive months. You can't string these back-to-back, you'll need to wait another three months before asking to get back on. This will not advance your contract termination date, meaning you'll still have to fulfill the remainder of your contract to avoid the early termination fee (ETF).AT&amp;amp'T charges $10 per month for subscribers to temporarily suspend their contract. You'll have had to be paid up for six months first. T-Mobile (See above.)Not just Google VoiceThere are other reasons to suspend your phone line' Google Voice just happened to be my spur. Regardless of your scenario or country of residence, if you find you need to give your cell phone a rest but want to avoid losing your number or plan, and skirt a reactivation fee should you change your mind, it's a good idea to check with your carrier's customer service reps to see what they can do for you. It may be more than you thought.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[At security confab, Clinton urges risk, investment]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses RSA attendees.(Credit:Josh Lowensohn/CNET)SAN FRANCISCO--Like any great endeavor, information technology does not come without its risks, former President Bill Clinton said this afternoon during a speech at the RSA security conference here.Clinton stressed that this was especially true given recent events in Egypt, efforts to secure free Internet access around the world, investigations into WikiLeaks, and the fallout from the Stuxnet virus. &quot;There are no totally risk-free endeavors and advances,&quot; Clinton said. &quot;At every step along the way we have to ask ourselves, 'what is it we're really trying to do here'&quot;Clinton closed out the weeklong security conference with a talk entitled &quot;Embracing Our Common Humanity,&quot; in which he focused on the importance of making sure there is good political policy to back up new technologies, so as not to repeat mistakes made in the past. Part of such an effort also involves looking for evidence to make the right decisions, Clinton said. &quot;You can have all the technology you want, but if you don't have good information, you're going to make the wrong choices,&quot; he said. Even so, Clinton knocked an organization that had plenty of information--WikiLeaks (or as he mistakenly called it during the speech &quot;Wikipedia leaks&quot;)--for not giving up its own Internet records once under investigation. Clinton referred to the situation as ironic. As was the case with a past RSA keynote speech by Al Gore, who served as vice president to Clinton, those with press badges were barred from attending the talk by Clinton because of a &quot;contract restriction.&quot; But RSA attendees with different sorts of credentials (including, in this case, CNET News staffers) were allowed to snap photos and blog during Clinton's presentation.During the nearly hour-long talk, Clinton ran through a brief history of economics and policy changes, emphasizing how the focus of the U.S. economy following his administration had led to a set of industries that didn't encourage IT jobs. &quot;We went through a long eight-year period when there was no source of new jobs. When all of America's economic growth were in housing, consumer spending, and finance,&quot; Clinton said. &quot;And if you think about it, they're all inherantly self-limiting, and when you go beyond the limits they're all fraught with opportunities for disaster.&quot;&quot;Throughout history, everything that has value is subject to being stolen, or altered. So at one level, everybody in cybersecurity is sort of like the most modern cop on the beat. And you're dealing with human nature's inevitable tendency to try to take advantage of whatever the latest object of value is. But it is profoundly important.&quot; --Former U.S. President Bill ClintonOf course hindsight is 20-20, which is why Clinton talked up the importance of risk in regard to projects like the Hadron Collider in Switzerland. The Hadron Collider was not just about subatomic particles, Clinton said, it was also about the computers, and the IT that made the setup possible. Clinton also compared the security industry to a modern day police force. &quot;Throughout history, everything that has value is subject to being stolen, or altered,&quot; Clinton said. &quot;So at one level, everybody in cybersecurity is sort of like the most modern cop on the beat. And you're dealing with human nature's inevitable tendency to try to take advantage of whatever the latest object of value is. But it is profoundly important.&quot; Clinton said he believed his administration to be the first to deal with both the opportunity and challenge of the information technology era, with, among other things, its establishment of the Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, an effort to guard against technological threats that could disrupt critical parts of the economy.&quot;It seems ludicrous now, but every third person was convinced that the world would come to an end when computers failed to actually make the conversion when 2000 occurred,&quot; he joked. &quot;Nothing bad happened, but the work we did provided sort of a template for the efforts that the executive branch made when I was there in the cybersecurity era.&quot;Following his speech, Clinton briefly mentioned yesterday's Silicon Valley visit by President Obama during a question and answer session. Clinton said he hoped Obama was going through a similar process to the one he himself went through in 1991-92, in which his administration tried to determine where jobs were likely to come from, as well as what public policies and private incentives were likely to bring the biggest gains. &quot;I think you have to understand where we are, where we're going, and what we need to do,&quot; Clinton said.        Josh Lowensohn     Full Profile E-mail Josh Lowensohn   E-mail Josh Lowensohn If you have a question or comment for Josh Lowensohn, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Microsoft. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house.      Topics:  News    Tags:  Clinton,   Bill Clinton,   security,   RSA 2011,   Talk      Share: Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Facebook Twitter                <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP discounts Envy 13, a MacBook Air rival]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard has moved its Envy 13 into the fire sale bin--the last gasp from a discontinued model. HP Envy 13: like the 13-inch MacBook Air and Dell Adamo 13, it has an all-metal chassis.(Credit:Hewlett-Packard)HP is now selling the Envy 13 for $999, with a $450 instant rebate. That includes an Intel 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo Processor (SL9300), 3GB of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 Graphics with 512MB of dedicated memory, Beats audio, a 250GB (5400RPM) hard disk drive, an external SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW drive with double layer support, andWindows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. For those unfamiliar with the Envy 13, it was an obvious response to Apple's aluminum MacBook line and fell somewhere between the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. (And it's not to be confused with the Envy 14, which is very much an active HP model.) I would contend that the Envy 13 was more of an Air rival than a Pro competitor because of its weight (less than 4 pounds) and lack of a built-in optical drive. And its lineage hints at a response to the Air: the Envy 13's predecessor was the Voodoo Envy 133--an ultrathin (0.7 inches), head-turning design that was not, ultimately, very popular. Like the Air and Pro, the Envy 13 has an aluminum chassis, which elevates it into the rarefied realm of the luxury laptop. HP&amp;39's Envy 13-1130NR Web page: showing the discounted price--as of Tuesday, December 28. (Credit:Hewlett-Packard)And Dell has also dropped the price on its aluminum Adamo 13. So, here's the $64,000 question: Are HP and Dell trying to compete with the newest Airs Or are they just getting rid of inventory I would favor the latter argument, certainly for HP and likely for Dell, as it has not updated the Adamo 13 in ages. Note that refurbished Envy 13s are also being sold at discounts by HP. For instance, an Envy 13 with a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo SU9600 (ultra-low-power processor), a 250GB hard disk drive, 5GB of memory, ATI graphics, and 64-bit Windows 7 is priced at $766.35, down from its original price of $1,179. Here's a spec-to-spec comparison with the MacBook Air that I did back in November of 2009. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Phone SIM Locks: Why Do Carriers Even&nbsp'Bother]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[We&amp;'ve been down this road before: a new iOS version is released that undoes all of the nasty stuff hackers did to the previous version. A week later those same hackers blow out a jailbreak and then a few days later they release a full unlock (the latest iOS unlock is only for 3G and 3GS right now, so iPhone 4 users are stuck for now.) Given that this is pretty much standard procedure, why don&amp;'t carriers just give upSadly, most other phones don&amp;'t get this sort of white glove treatment. A grey market exists that traffics in phone unlocks for many devices including Blackberries and Nokias. Why Because someone, somewhere wants to move their phone from country A to country B. The vast majority of phone users will never want to this but there is still plenty of demand.So why not ship without the lock Well, there are a few possible answers, barring the obvious &amp;''Carriers suck.&amp;''First, the lock ensures carriers get their pound of flesh before your phone becomes obsolete. By locking your phone, they get to charge you at home, and, more important, they can charge you when you&amp;'re roaming (and boy will they ever charge you). This is allows them to make back their phone subsidy and then some.Next, the lock ensures that phones can&amp;'t travel. For various reasons, carriers don&amp;'t want the phones of Cleveland to end up in Swaziland. The first of these reasons is that many phones just don&amp;'t work overseas. Second, phones in some countries are cheaper than in others. An iPhone in Europe, for example, usually costs much more than it costs on AT&amp;amp'T. It won&amp;'t do to allow phone buyers to cross the border like so many retirees looking for cut-rate Canadian Viagra, rightThat said, why not just give up All of the great phones, including Windows Phone 7 models, have at least some form of public jailbreak if not a full unlock. The phones without a public unlock actually can be unlocked if you call your carrier after six months. Or, finally, you can pay some weirdo to send you an unlock code. I would estimate the majority of phone users barely know they&amp;'re using SIM cards let alone understand the entire SIM unlock idea. Most folks who make calls while travelling are probably doing so for business and so their phone calls are expensed any way. Is it really worth the bad will generated by SIM locks when you&amp;'re overseas and want to swap out a SIM and can&amp;'t Probably not, but again, carriers, oddly enough, don&amp;'t care. Will the SIM unlock ever disappear even though it is easily surmounted I doubt it. It&amp;'s the famous old chestnut of &amp;''security through obscurity&amp;'' that has always popular with corporate types. After all, if it looks like a lock, it must act like one.Image via ArtLebedevCrunchBase InformationAppleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Access 360 Media raises $40 million-plus for outdoor digital advertising]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[With advertising dollars going digital, Access 360 Media is looking to cash in on the time people spend away from their computers. The outdoor ad network just closed a round of more than $40 million in debt and equity financing, led by Columbia Capital.Access 360 Mediaa4a4s ad network runs digital display ads in approximately 100 shopping malls and professional sports venues nationwide. The company claims to reach 54 million viewers monthly on over 20,000 installed displays.While Access 360 Media is announcing a $12 million equity round from Columbia and previous investor Mission Ventures, sources close to the company told me Columbia Capital is also providing a credit facility between $30 and $40 million to finance acquisitions. Access 360 Media acquired Arena Media Networks out of bankruptcy in April last year, allowing the company to expand its network to over 50 arenas and stadiums.Access 360 Media previously raised $8 million from Mission Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners in 2008. Bessemer also invested $4.25 million in a 2006 series A round of financing.The companya4a4s brand clients include Procter &amp;amp' Gamble, Macya4a4s, Verizon and General Motors, a roster which gives Access 360 and its investors confidence that the companya4a4s digital outdoor display advertising network can compete with TV for brand advertising dollars.&amp;''As audiences get more difficult to reach in traditional media as a result of increased DVR penetration and fragmentation across so many TV channels, we think advertisers will look for ways to interact with their customers on digital platforms outside the home,a4 Columbia Capital Partner Jeff Patterson said in a statement.Previous Story: Group texting startup GroupMe raises $10.6M despite being a long way from revenuePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Jacob is an entrepreneur and blogger living in New York City. He is the founder and CEO of Standard Start, a non-profit providing free standardized legal documents and education to startup businesses. He also serves as an advisor to Girls In Tech and Entrepreneur's Roundtable.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Body lets you play doctor on Android tablets (video)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It&amp;'s like the Google Maps of human anatomy. Google Body, which is already available in web form, can now run on Android tablets that use the 3.0 Honeycomb version of Google&amp;'s mobile operating system. Using 3D graphics capabilities of the latest tablets such as Motorola&amp;'s Xoom, the hardware is now good enough to properly display a 3D-heavy app such as Google Body, which lets you look at your organs, muscles and bones.This kind of app is a leap above what was possible on tablet computers just a year ago, and it shows you how fast mobile computing is changing. It also shows off what is possible now with the fast-growing Android platform, and that&amp;'s why Google demoed it on Wednesday at the Honeycomb press event at Google&amp;'s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. With Google Body, you can see what particular organs look like, or search for bones, and the animation will display the spot that you are looking for. You can rotate the image and get a real 3D view.Maybe games aren&amp;'t your thing. But that doesn&amp;'t mean that the 3D graphics capabilities of the tablets will go to waste. There are some broader-reach apps that will likely make use of all of the horsepower in the new Android tablets.The free app will be useful in education and will help people understand their anatomy better when they go to their doctors to complain about their aches and pains. Check out Google Body in the video below.Next Story: In-app purchases really work for games on Android tablets (the proof is in the video) Previous Story: Why you should care about 409A valuationsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Google Body, Render ScriptCompanies: Google          Tags: Google Body, Render ScriptCompanies: GoogleDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Team behind IBM&'s Jeopardy overlord Watson stops by Reddit]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zoolepype</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The war is over, and humanity has ceded its crown as the master of trivia to IBM&amp;'s Watson supercomputer.Now the team responsible for the humanity&amp;'s downfall in Jeopardy is ready to answer questions as to how a4&quot; and why a4&quot; they built and programmed Watson on news aggregator Reddit. The team posted a question-and-answer thread, called an &amp;''ask-me-anything,&amp;'' that lets Reddit users comment with questions.IBM is the latest of a series of companies that has appealed to the Reddit community to generate some positive buzz for their technology.&amp;nbsp'Cond Nast-owned Reddit is populated by tech-savvy individuals that are typically more critical of entrenched services that are plagued with bugs. Maybe the idea is that if you can handle Reddit, you can handle just about anything.Microsoft regularly throws its teams into the pool with Reddit sharks a4&quot; the company sent in its&amp;nbsp'Hotmail team (which wasn&amp;'t quite that successful) and its Internet Explorer 9 team (which was quite successful.) It seems like it&amp;'s a pretty hit-or-miss strategy, but it at least makes the team appear more human to the hyper-critical tech community that populates news aggregator sites like Reddit and Y Combinator&amp;'s Hacker News.Watson competed against Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter over three days of intense trivia, and&amp;nbsp'won by making a $17,000-plus Final Jeopardy bet on the answer a4AWilliam Wilkinsona4a4s a4An account of the principalities of Wallachia and Modaviaa4a4 inspired this authora4a4s most famous novel.a4 Watson answered, a4AWho is Bram Stokera4 Watson ended the three-day run with $77,147, while Jennings had $24,000 and Rutter had $21,600. Jennings even quipped on his response that he, for one, &amp;''welcomes our new computer overlords.&amp;''So far the team has only jumped in to ask that each curious Redditor stick to a single question per comment. But the answers are probably on the way, given how much interest there was in bringing the IBM team to the site. Earlier today, there was a request to bring the engineers onto the site for an &amp;''ask-me-anything&amp;'' thread that hit the front page a4&quot; and the official question-and-answer thread hit the front page just a few minutes ago.In the mean time, IBM&amp;'s researcher showed VentureBeat&amp;'s Dean Takahashi and others how Watson works at an event in San Francisco last night.Next Story: Is Google&amp;'s Facebook competitor almost ready Previous Story: Can Groupon take to the skies with its first airline dealPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Jeopardy, Skynet, supercomputer, WatsonCompanies: Conde Nast, IBM, Reddit          Tags: Jeopardy, Skynet, supercomputer, WatsonCompanies: Conde Nast, IBM, RedditMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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