Finally!! This is great news because, seriously, music production in the latest blockbuster games is truly spectacular. Hear the latest Shogun 2: Total War soundtrack and it's frankly Hollywood on Windows!

Most probably Fukushima Daichi will have to be sealed. The nearby communities will eventually be safe. But uncertainty about nuclear power travels FASTER than the nuclear fallout in all cases. A state election in a premium German state was lost by the reigning government because it supported nuclear power plants...

It's a bitter sweet evolution, if you ask me. Yes, current last generation plants are unsafe and should be closed down the sooner the better, but this will definitely hurt industrial research for future IV generation power plants which are definitely safer than any other form of major power generation...

"This clown should be catapulted into the sun."

LOL, I laughed so hard at his penalty... :D

Isn't it time for Slashdot to create an article icon for Apple as well? Yes, in the 90s Microsoft was the IT villain, but now Apple has surpassed it for good with its walled garden of closed experience. Time for a "Steve Jobs the Borg" avatar!! :p

Great disappointment. I was really hoping Apple would jump start the NFC revolution with the iPhone 5. What's the problem in not having an industry standard?! They would have CREATED one!

The author talks about the honeybee. Let's emulate first the honeybee. Create a robot that can achieve what the social insect "bee" can achieve.

Lobules Lobes Whole Brain

Instead of trying to emulate the human brain, which at the moment is unattainable, we should concentrate on efficiency paradigms of smaller neural ensembles. Once we achieve efficiency we can scale. Why haven't we learned anything from the CPU industry? They didn't start from 19nm manufacture. Why should we?

We shouldn't hurry. AI comparable to a human person can be achieved, but it is still a long way until we reach it.

Indeed! Apple is not a fruit anymore, it's a RELIGION! :p

Please don't accuse my of trolling, but I somehow agree with parent here.

Moreover, apart from the fun of it, and I admit there's a lot to be made, is there an inherent reason to always condemn Microsoft and absolve Google and the rest? Both/all of them are for profit corporations and of course I don't buy the do-not-evil shit. At least, not 100%. My guess is that both companies tried their best to maximize the efficiency of their results with all means possible. No foul game here.

Enough already with all Microsoft-bashing at every possible moment. 2011 is not the 90s, I don't even think we should have a Bill-Gates-as-a-Borg story icon anymore. It's not relevant anymore. What about Apple and its walled garden? What about Google and its privacy woes? I didn't see Jobs and Page as Borgs images accompanying their stories...

PS. I use both engines (80% Google and 20% Bing). Love them both, both have their strengths and weaknesses. I don't think there's business ethics involved here, just trimming algorithms.

Haha. Just what I thought. He's from Texas too! :p

Hope it comes up "for those without the time and money to pop on a plane and trade elbows with crowds of students looking to catch a glimpse of what some of the best schools have on offer"...

Aren't these percentages too close to be meaningful? Of course it depends on the sample, but I think unless we get an all-winning AI it's interesting but nothing really special.

Personally, I would love to see Apple collaborate with Art Lebenev to bring an up-to-date Optimus Maximus keyboard at €200-300. First see if optical feedback technology sells at the right price and only then try it with flat surfaces and tactile feedback as well.

Right now, it's too much of a jump. Anyway, it's just a patent. I doubt we're gonna see anything before 2013-14.

Hm, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Angry Birds was a game first for Nokia MeeGo/Symbian. After its success there it was ported to the iPhone and other platforms.