"It looks like Google is facing yet another patent lawsuit - this time involving a huge amount of money, the technology that is the key to Google’s money-making machine and a team of Russian developers."
"Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold and its subsidiary Premier Election Solutions. Artifex says that Diebold violated the GPL by incorporating Ghostscript into...
Jackson Co. West Virginia clerk inadvertently gives a demonstration of the unreliability of electronic voting machines. The machine was flipping the votes right on camera- even after he recalibrated it. Nearly 360,000 views in 2 days; your vote may not get counted, but you...
There's the saying, "No machine can do my job, until it learns to drink", but according to author Marshall Brain, computers are eventually going to take over the world and eliminate meaningless, humiliating work...
More votes being flipped from Dem to Republican; can Obamania and the flood of newly registered voters beat the Republican-controlled computer vote-counting?Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Finally a report of a McCain vote being flipped to Obama; as Bradblog notes, does this mean we'll be...
The Loebner Prize contest was held in England this past weekend, where artificial intelligence machines were put to the test to see if they could convince judges that they were intelligent humans. Based on the...
highlighted by Terri Potratz | 7 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago 152 views | 5 comments | 14 recommendations
By, Uwe Paschen. Atlantis, the never-ending legacy trapped in a time lope. Let me tell you the real story of Atlantis as it did not happen and yet will still happen. As many of us know of the story of Atlantis...
opinion by Paschen | 13 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago 2280 views | 48 comments | 74 recommendations
Comedian/Game Show Host Jeff Foxworthy wants to know if you're smarter than a 5th grader, but are you smarter than a computer? October 12, humans and 6 AI will face off to see if the programs can fool human judges into not being able to tell them apart from human beings. Ray...
What's in the report?New Jersey State Judge Feinberg has chosen to violate the First Amendment Rights of human beings in order to protect the "interests" of a corporation; unconstitutional, but not unusual in the US. If the report is bogus, let it be debunked in public. If...
"SOUTH CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrol officer has been charged with battery on a police officer. Jose A. Cruz, 34, of Clarksburg was...
Scientists have switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the device they hope will unravel some of the remaining mysteries of the universe. At 9.30 am local time (8.30 am British Summer Time), 300 feet below the...
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"A common form of skin cancer could be diagnosed by the distinctive chemical "scent" it gives off, say US experts. Philadelphia's Monell Center sampled the air directly above basal cell carcinomas and found it was different to similar samples from healthy skin. They told a...
On July 22, 2008, the self-titled first album by newly formed group "One Day as a Lion" will drop. The group is a partnership between Zack de la Rocha (formerly of Rage Against the Machine) and Jon Theodore...
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