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Submission + - Amazon, watch out, OpenStack is coming (networkworld.com)

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Julie188
Julie188 writes: "The open source cloud platform, OpenStack, promises to end cloud-vendor lock-in by making it easier to move workloads between cloud providers. Only problem was, there were no OpenStack cloud providers. Until now. Internap has launched the first OpenStack public cloud, and it chose the open source Xen as the base hypervisor. Rackspace, the official corporate champion of OpenStack, is in beta with its cloud as is HP. A stew of other OpenStack projects are ready to bubble over soon, too."

Submission + - Google TV update (blogspot.com)

Submitted by snowtigger
snowtigger writes: Google announced updates to the Google TV today. Features include better streaming video and music integration, a simpler user interface and apps from the Android market
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Submission + - Japan Unveils World's Largest 3D Display (singularityhub.com)

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kkleiner
kkleiner writes: "Japan has unveiled a new 200-inch, HD screen on which images shift through 57 different viewing angles to give the appearance of 3D – without the need for glasses. The trick behind the glasses-free 3D is an array of 57 projectors behind the screen, each projecting the same image at a slightly different angle. As awesome as the images are, the screen is not quite practical. You’ll need an extra room for the array and a forklift to move its 500 kg."

Comment The dawn of AI/Better Turing Test. (Score 2, Insightful) 577

by freality (#14202370) Attached to: New Worm Chats with Users on AIM
If this technique keeps on working after a while, virus writers will have effectively passed the Turing test. Though as predicted, the Turing test will end up saying more about itself (and us) than AI. Perhaps there should be a Turing Test++ that identifies AI as intelligence capable of distinguishing a human from a virus bot soley by communication over IM.

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