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+ - IBM's Watson Gets a Job in Customer Service->

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes "IBM’s Watson supercomputer has been riding high for the past couple of years. It won a game of Jeopardy, went to university and did a stint at a cancer lab. But now it’s taking what might seem like a step down with a job in customer service. According to IBM, the current avalanche of information is provoking an oncoming crisis in customer service and the company sees Watson’s advanced learning and data crunching abilities as a solution."
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+ - Police use social media surveillance to crack down on protesters->

Submitted by Bismillah
Bismillah writes "From the story: A dedicated team of British police officers are monitoring social media around the clock in the wake of last night’s fatal attack on a soldier in the south-east of London, in order to gauge sentiment and be ready to respond.

Umut Ertogral, who runs the Opensource Intelligence Unit for London’s Metropolitan Police Service, today told the AusCERT information security conference a team of 17 staff were working seven days a week to track social media feedback and monitor community tension.

“There’s a lot of work we’re doing to analyse the language and how people are talking on Twitter,” Ertogral said."
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+ - Independent Test of E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Might Show Promise->

Submitted by Agnapot
Agnapot writes "The controversy surrounding Andrea Rossi's E-Cat device has been brewing since it was first introduced in 2011. Since then there have been calls for independent experiments as well as more openness with how the device works. It seems we might have some of the former. Forbes Contributor Mark Gibbs writes:

What everyone wanted was something that Rossi has been promising was about to happen for months: An independent test by third parties who were credible. This report was delayed several times to the point where many were wondering whether it was all nothing [...]. But much to my, and I suspect many other people’s surprise, a report by credible, independent third parties is exactly what we got.

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+ - Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time->

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes "Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or "state," of another particle—even if it's light years away. Now, experimenters in Israel have shown that they can entangle two photons that don't even exist at the same time. Anton Zeilinger, a physicist at the University of Vienna, says that the experiment demonstrates just how slippery the concepts of quantum mechanics are. "It's really neat because it shows more or less that quantum events are outside our everyday notions of space and time.""
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+ - Who owns the multinational corporation tax problem?-> 2

Submitted by OzUnsane
OzUnsane writes "The current grilling of Apple in front of a US Senate hearing on the amount of tax they pay is just the latest in a long series of questions asked by governments around the world. Or in actual fact, question, because it's all the same question: why aren't you paying enough taxes? The problem is, governments are asking the wrong people, and the wrong question. The real question is — who owns the multinational corporation tax problem?"
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+ - Independent report on E-Cat shows large energy output by Rossi's invention.

Submitted by CdXiminez
CdXiminez writes "If you’ve missed the recent brouhaha over the E-Cat (which stands for Energy Catalyzer), you’re missing out on a three ring circus over a technology that will either change everything or change nothing because what is promised is, in theory, power too cheap to be worth metering.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/

PDF:
http://ecat.com/files/Indication-of-anomalous-heat-energy-production-in-a-reactor-device.pdf"

+ - German IT Firm seeks Autistic Workers-> 1

Submitted by Aguazul2
Aguazul2 writes "The German software giant SAP has announced it plans to recruit hundreds of people with autism within the next few years. The project has already started in India and Ireland where a total of 11 people with autism are employed by the company. The programme to take on software testers, programmers and data management workers will spread across Germany, Canada and the US this year. People with autism have a neural development disorder that often undermines their ability to communicate and interact socially [...] but in the world of computers the tendencies they often display such as an obsession for detail and an ability to analyse long sets of data very accurately can translate into highly useful and marketable skills."
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+ - British Soldier Beheaded in London Street by Islamic Terrorists

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "A British soldier has been beheaded in a London street, in broad daylight, by two Islamic terrorists who ran him down first. The terrorists stayed at the scene, taking pictures and videos of the incident. One of them made a statement to a passer-by with a camera, whilst holding a machete in his clearly bloodied hands. Both attackers were shot by police officers who they also attempted to attack. Their condition is not known."

+ - Bob Metcalfe: I Was Terrified of IBM for 10 yrs But Ethernet Won Cause it's Open-> 1

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes "Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe drew a diagram on a piece of paper 40 years ago today that defined how Ethernet would work. In an event celebrating that milestone, Metcalfe today admitted that IBM's token ring networking system was his biggest fear for 10 yrs, but eventually it was outdone.

What IBM underestimated in their dominance was the power of an open standard," Metcalfe said. "In that old IBM, in its dark little heart it was not committed to open standards and its products were not interoperable."

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Comment: Re:DOA (Score 1) 748

There's no way this boneheaded bill will get past the Republican controlled House.

It's not about getting past . . . it's about posturing, posing and voguing by the Rep. He just wants to make a fuss about something so his constituents will maybe think that he is actually doing something useful for them.

Why waste time on a no-chance bill proposal . . . ? Publicity, of course.

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead. -- Lois Platford

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