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IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon

20 May 2013

A sample Watson smartphone app. IBM's question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist. Now Watson has a new job--as a customer-service agent with

Bitcoin developer chats about regulation, open source, and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto

19 May 2013

With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for three years, he left his job at Red Hat on Friday to start work at Bitpay, the biggest Bitcoin payment processing service. IDG News Service caught up with him at ...

Prettyman wins Cape school board race

14 May 2013

Noble Prettyman retained his seat on Cape Henlopen school board for another five years after beating Alisha Broughton by 52 votes May 14. The total voter turnout was less than a third of last year's turnout; last year's loser alone tallied more votes than this year's combined total. Voters re-elected Prettyman with 311 votes compared to 259 for Broughton. "I'm really disappointed in the Cape ...