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George Plimpton: Nope, Supercomputers Still Can't Manage Baseball Teams or Counsel Marriages
When he learned that Garry Kasperov lost to Deep Blue, back in '97, George Plimpton wasn't nervous. He was certainly not about to cede his manly manliness to a computer, simply because it won a stupid game of chess. As he told "PBS":http://www.research...
ALEX PASTERNACK
2.17.11
Travel

I Went to Jesus Land
When my cousin moved to Florida this fall, it was as though God had intervened to provide the perfect excuse for a picture-snapping session at The Holy Land Experience.
Laura June Kirsch
2.17.11
Motherboard Blog

A Computer Named Watson Won Jeopardy: Video
IBM's Watson computer won Jeopardy last night against its two most successful human players. While Watson cooled off underneath the special Jeopardy stage IBM built for the purpose of showing off their storied new brand name, the audience could be...
ALEX PASTERNACK
2.17.11
Motherboard Blog

Welcome, Our New Computer Overlords
After yet another convincing defeat, Ken Jennings, the winningest human Jeopardy player of all time, could be seen wringing the mock neck of Watson's avatar. The machine had prevailed, having left its human contenders with nary a chance or a hope.
ALEC LIU
2.17.11
Motherboard Blog

Watson's Hardest Question: "What Is Life?"
Here’s a possibly little-known piece of trivia: the company that built a computer that could beat humans at Jeopardy was born long before the modern computer. Back in the 1880s, it was known as the confluence of three companies, the Tabulating...
FRED PASTERNACK
2.17.11
Motherboard

Carlos and His Heavy Metal Toys
Wasilla, “real America” Alaska is more than just Sarah Palin’s stomping ground and a natural-gas haven. Wasilla’s also the hometown of Carlos Owens, a man whose 20-foot robotic exoskeleton has flamethrower hands.
VICE Staff
2.17.11
Motherboard

Bent Fest
It was an average Saturday at the DUMBO, Brooklyn outlet of Mikey’s Hook Up, a computer retailer and repair specialist. Well-groomed arty-types came in, alone, in couples, with lattes in hand, all there to admire the shiny wares or bring in their...
VICE Staff
2.17.11
Vice Blog

DAN RAN FOR LOVE
VICE Staff
2.16.11
Music

The "Love Song Machine" Lets Internet Users Create Beautiful Music
Somewhere in Providence, RI there is an office full of bells. You can play love songs on those bells via the internet.
Julia Kaganskiy
2.16.11
Motherboard Blog

A Brief History of Video Game Art
CREATORS PROJECT
2.16.11
Motherboard Blog

How to Design the Face of a Supercomputer: Video
The swirling, colorful face of IBM’s Jeopardy-machine Watson is part pure representation--of answer confidence, for example--part branding, and, to hear the creators tell it, art. Personally, I think it would have been best to line up Watson’s 1...
Michael Byrne
2.16.11
Art

Creativity Bytes: A Brief Guide To Video Game Art
Read this and sound like an expert. Well, sort of.
Kevin Holmes
2.16.11
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