Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
IBM is building a computer to challenge the best contestants on the TV show “Jeopardy.” But how would ordinary search engines do in comparison? Stephen Wolfram, founder of the company that makes Mathematica software and the calculating site WolframAlpha.com, did an analysis of 200,000 Jeopardy clues to find how quickly and correctly the leading search engines find answers. As you can see from the chart, Google wins by a nose, except against Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings, who blows them all out of the water. You can read Wolfram’s analysis here.
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Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
At the beginning of each year, Barron’s, a leading financial journal, publishes the picks of ten luminaries of the investment world. So just for the heck of it, I looked at how these leading lights did on last year’s picks…
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Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Sometimes you want to use a program that sits on a desktop or laptop computer somewhere else. You can reach and control that computer with the “Ignition” program from LogMeIn. We’ve used it on the iPad and it now comes in a version for Android tablets. It lets you control another computer remotely from your tablet; all you need is an Internet connection. Except for the difference in speed, it’s almost as if you had that other computer with you. The app is $30 from Google’s Android Market. You can read more about it at LogMeIn.com.
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