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IBM’s Watson Is Playing at This Year’s US Open

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The Toronto Raptors Are Using IBM’s Watson to Draft A Winning Team

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The New X Prize Will Award $5 Million for Innovation in Artificial Intelligence

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Life

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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers captured detailed images of a comet as it began to tear itself apart.

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