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You’ve hear about Watson, IBM’s own child and artificial intelligence system that has been touted for its super-computing powers. Well, Watson might know a lot of stuff, defeated “Jeopardy!” champions, and memorized the Urban dictionary, but it still needs to go to school. IBM has announced that it will be sending Watson to New York State’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Although that sounds weird, but yes, Watson is the first computer to be sent to university. Watson will be learning courses in math and English. (more…)

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The NF82 is Jetway’s latest mini-ITX motherboard for the mass market. Based on AMD A75 chipset, the board supports for AMD R-Series APU embedded processors and features two DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 16GB RAM), one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot and one mini PCI-Express slot. Connectivity-wise, it has six 6.0 Gbps, two USB 3.0, four USB 2.0 and two Gigabit Ethernet. The NF82 is now available at authorized resellers and system integrators. [Jetway]

A Keyboard PC sounds slightly different from a keyboard and a PC, and now here is an idea for you to think about. The Diablotek U310 Keyboard PC certainly does not conform to traditional values when it comes to the size, as the entire parts of the computer has been reduced and miniaturized to fit into a standard issue keyboard. This is definitely a good thing, and all-in-one devices tend to pack quite a punch in this day and age.

One ought to take note that the Diablotek U310 Keyboard PC will run Linux by default instead of the normal mainstay that we call Windows from Microsoft. Underneath the hood lies a dual-core 1.8GHz processor, where it is accompanied by 2GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, Wi-Fi connectivity, speakers and ultra low noise. Apart from that, it has a quartet of USB 2.0 ports, where it tips the scales at a relatively lightweight 2.23kg, clearly making this as heavy – or rather, as light as a standard issue notebook. Do bear in mind that the Diablotek U310 Keyboard PC does not come with a built-in camera, and you will need to provide your own monitor with the $169.99 Diablotek U310 Keyboard PC.

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Storm System Technology hits back by launching a new desktop PC namely the Storm BSD Box Middle Tower LS. Specs-wise, the system packs a 2.60GHz Intel Celeron G1610 processor, an Intel B75 Express Chipset, an Intel HD graphics, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 450W 80PLUS BRONZE power supply and runs on FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 (64-bit) OS. The Storm BSD Box Middle Tower LS is priced at 29,820 Yen (about $329). [Product Page]

Google and Raspberry Pi announced today that the search giant is granting money to the team behind the Raspberry Pi computer in order to donate 15,000 of them to schoolchildren all over the UK. The mini computers will be used to teach students how to write computer programs. Schmidt and Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton traveled to Cambridge to donate the first batch of computers to a classroom of 12-year-old students.

The Raspberry Pi team will be working with Google, as well as six UK “educational partners”, to find the right set of students to donate the 15,000-worth of Raspberry Pi computers. The six educational partners include CoderDojo, Code Club, Computing at Schools, Generating Genius, Teach First, and OCR. Specifically, OCR will be creating 15,000 teaching and learning packs to go along with each Raspberry Pi unit.

The team noted in a blog post that they’re “absolutely made up over the news,” and that “this is a brilliant way for us to find kids all over the country whose aptitude for computing can now be explored properly.” The Raspberry Pi team believes that abundant access to these types of tools (as well as any other types of tools) is crucial to discovering what students are good at.

The Raspberry Pi has been a huge hit ever since it initially released almost a year ago. Essentially, it’s a tiny computer — about the size of smartphone — that costs only $35 and can be used for all sorts of electronic projects, as well as be used as a normal, low-profile computer running Linux or any other open-source operating system.

Google donating 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers to UK students is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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