Tag: computing
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BBC Micro Bit Mini PC Delayed Until 2016
The BBC are recently reviving and old ancient relationship which the corporation once had with computing. A long, long time ago, when computers were strange boxes filled with scary magic and command lines, the BBC put out the original BBC Micro computer. It was pretty big by our standards, but back then people were obviously…
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Drones May Soon Include Electronic ‘Brain’
Drone tech is getting increasingly more complicated and more accessible to users looking to get their hands on their own flying camera. Recent reports suggest that newer models are set to include their own thinking methods and automated flight using neural networks. This means in layman’s terms that the previously remote control devices could evolve…
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IBM’s Watson Computer Pens Cookbook
IBM’s Watson supercomputing platform has been around for roughly four years now, and is always managing to surpass expectations and wow the public with it’s unprecedented ability to carry out clever functions. Recently, Chef Watson, a food oriented ‘cognitive cooking system’ developed in partnership with the Institute of Culinary Education, has been helping chefs pick…
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Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft Leadership Once Again Criticised by Forbes
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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer comes under fire from high-brow news source Forbes, but is the CEO’s outrageous approach really bad for business?
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Google Donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park Restoration Project
A philanthropic move by internet giant Google has seen the princely sum of £550,000 being put into the hands of the Bletchley Park restoration project, as part of a fundraiser designed to remodel and restore sections of the collection of huts where a team of British cryptographers lead by Alan Turing worked on deciphering complex…