IBM’s Watson uses Jeopardy skills to become House-like medical diagnostician

IBM’s Watson hasn’t been in medical school long, but he already has two jobs. Teaming with the Cleveland Clinic, Big Blue researchers have developed WatsonPaths, a diagnosis and education project, and Watson EMR Assistant, a tool for delving deep into medical records. WatsonPaths is the more …

Kill ‘Em With Great Taste With Season Shots For Your Shotgun

Tired of having to season your bird after you’ve already done all the work of shooting it and plucking it? Then let Season Shotgun Shot do the work for you.

IBM’s Watson Is Planning to Fix America’s Healthcare System

IBM's Watson Is Planning to Fix America's Healthcare System

While Obama might be having a hell of a time trying to reform healthcare, we perhaps shouldn’t worry too much—because IBM’s supercomputer Watson is now being used to fix America’s shortage of doctors.

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Full-Body Umbrellas Keep You Dry In Your Own Private Bubble

Sure, a little fold up umbrella may be easy to carry and will keep you drier than nothing, but it’s hard to beat this full-body umbrella.

Chrome OS 30 stable build adds select, drag-and-drop features for touchscreens

Adventurous folks running Chrome OS beta have been enjoying the platform’s new touchscreen functions since September, assuming they have a Pixel. Now, touchscreen text selection and drag and drop support is arriving to the operating system’s stable build aboard the latest software update. While …

Whales Don’t Spray Water Out of Their Blowholes

Whales Don’t Spray Water Out of Their Blowholes

Contrary to what you may have seen in such movies as Pixar’s otherwise extremely entertaining Finding Nemo, whales don’t spray water out of their blowholes. Further, the whale’s trachea doesn’t connect to the esophagus of the whale; so when Dory and Marlin went down the whale’s throat, in real life, they’d have simply been eaten.

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Google Using GMail Avatars For Face Recognition

This article was written on August 14, 2006 by CyberNet.

GMail Face RecognitionIt was pretty cool when GMail got the avatar capability but is there really a different motive for the feature? The Google Operating System blog is speculating that Google could use the large database of images for their face recognition software that they are supposed to be working on.

When you upload a photo in GMail it wants you to crop it so that it contains the specific portion of the image that you would like. Most people who are uploading an image of a person will choose to keep the face and scrap the rest. This will leave Google with an enormous database of faces that it can work with. Then, of course, it can associate the face with the name on the account…pretty clever, huh?

I guess that could work in an ideal situation but everyone that I know who uses GMail does not have a picture of themselves. They’ll use something like a flower or a car, but not a picture.

It will be interesting to see where this one goes but in the mean time you can have some fun with Riya.

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Apple has hired Angela Ahrendts, the current CEO of Burberry, to head up its retail efforts.

Apple has hired Angela Ahrendts, the current CEO of Burberry, to head up its retail efforts. Could Macs get any more fashionable?

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Researchers fake sense of touch in monkey brains, hope to build a better prosthetic

Medical prosthetics have come a long way in recent years, but with a few exceptions, artificial limbs still lack the tactility of their fleshy counterparts. Scientists at the University of Chicago are looking to plug those sensory gaps by researching how to simulate touch sensations within the …

Texas Explosion, Fire Reported At Oil Storage Facility

An explosion sparked a large fire at an oil storage facility in Smith County, Texas, on Monday night, KLTV reported.

Firefighters from at least three area departments responded to the blaze at the Vess Oil Corp. The flames could be seen from miles away.

At the time of this writing, no injuries or deaths have been reported, KETK reported. Cause of the explosion is also unknown.

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