A woman buys a plank of iPad-shaped wood, liquid cremation hits the big time, and Apple loses yet another secret iPhone in a bar. All that and more as we take a quick look back at what happened in tech this week.
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More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won’t be able to tell that they’re actually conversing with software, not other humans.
The technology has come a long way, but what happens when you pair two chatbots together to converse …
By the time Hurricane Irene reached Boston, she was but a mere tropical storm. Her reputation as the most ruthless destructress the East Coast would see in decades had been overblown. She whipped through Boston more like a college freshman the first weekend she’d been away from her overprotective parents: Some trees were uprooted, some …
The world is a little less geeky today, friends. Here’s a quick look back at Steve Jobs’ career at Apple.
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He had hair. Hear the music. The crowd’s going positively nuts. This is the moment that Steve Jobs unleashed the Macintosh out into the world, and sealed his fate as one of the most well-known CEOs to date. Larry who?
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The HiPhone 5 beats the iPhone 5 to market, death threats against Facebook, Apple tops Exxon, and more: Here’s a quick look back at some recent stories from the Land o’ Tech.
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Happy (belated) birthday, World Wide Web! In the above cartoon, Odd Todd looks back on the infamous day back in August of 1991 that started it all.
LulzSec’s inevitable made-for-TV movie, gadget price cuts, Steve Jobs vs. Mark Zuckerberg, and more: Here’s a quick look back at some recent stories from the Land o’ Tech.
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Never in the history of cinema have we seen a film that’s almost as long as the history of cinema.
MoldytoasterMedia’s epic masterpiece, simply titled The Longest Video on YouTube, is an exquisite piece of work examining the essence of humanity contrasted with the fragility of life and the existential nothingness of un-being.
It …
Here’s a quick look at the new “Facebook phone”—also known as the HTC Status, available through AT&T for $50 with a two-year contract.
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Here’s a very quick and basic look at how Google+ works and how it compares to the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
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This is not what you think it is. It’s a talking robot, modeled on the human vocal system. And hey, check it out: it can sing! Kinda.
Wait, you say. Robots can already talk. Hell, even my laptop can talk, and I got it at Walmart.
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Yes, those things can talk, but only using software and …
