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Submission + - Remembering Alan Turing on his 99th birthday (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Blacklaw on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:41AM

Blacklaw writes: Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a noted polymath and cryptanalyst who is regarded by many as being the grandfather of modern computing.

Comment Re:Yes we can. (Score 1) 186

by rainbow127 on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @06:09PM (#36520686) Attached to: Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029

'Some things just can't be expressed in another language.'

Then it's not a human idea, and probably wasn't expressed in the original language.

Well, while that may be the case for a lot of technical documents, a lot of puns can't be translated into another language. So the original statement true for that matter.

Submission + - Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? (makezine.com)

Submitted by

ptorrone

on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:23PM

ptorrone writes: "MAKE Magazine takes a look at the last ten years or so of "wearable electronics". From wireless watches to LCD goggles, MAKE predicts we are collectively entering a new era of wearables. As the price for enabling components drops, always-on connectivity in our pockets and purses increases, and access to low-costmanufacturing resources and know-howrises we’ll see innovation continue to push into these most personal forms of computing."

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