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Morgan gets a creepy movie trailer made by IBM Watson

Arguably artificial intelligence has no place in creating art, which is a uniquely human experience. But it seems that both IBM and 20th Century…

How IBM is building a smarter planet with the cloud

Most people have heard of Watson — IBM’s smart computer that famously beat the quiz show Jeopardy! back in 2011. Fewer know that Watson…

IBM to launch mobile health-tracking initiative to track Ebola

By relying on its supercomputers’ brain power, IBM is going on a mission to help track Ebola as well as government-related issues in Sierra…

IBM’s Watson supercomputer is coming to SA healthcare centres

You might recall IBM’s supercomputer Watson beating a quiz game of Jeopardy in 2011. The event marked a pivotal moment in our world’s history…

IBM doles out US$1.3bn for HR software company Kenexa

Looks like Big Blue is going into Human Resources. This morning IBM announced that it was ready to pay US$1.3-billion for HR software company…

IBM bans Siri over fears that she spills secrets

When IBM revealed that it had banned its workers from using Siri, it could easily have been a throwback the halcyon days of its…

Tech dominates brand survey as Apple comes out top

Um…this should come as a surprise to approximately no one. Apple is the world’s most valuable company. The Cupertino-based tech giant topped research company…

Warren Buffett’s Bekshire Hathaway buys five percent stake in IBM

Renowned US billionaire Warren Buffett announced that his Berkshire Hathaway investment firm has been quietly buying up shares in technology giant IBM to the…

Google buys another 2^10 IBM patents

Google has added 1 023 more IBM patents to its technology arsenal to fend off legal attacks by rivals such as Apple and Microsoft….

IBM builds computer chip that mimics human brain

American computing giant IBM announced that it has developed a chip which mimics the way the human brain works. The New York-based company believes…

The ‘Age of Apple’ will end

First, a little disclosure. I never really wanted to like Apple, or use any of its products. Sure, the allure was there, all the…

IBM @100 years – Global innovation is about Silicon Valley not IBM

Congratulations to IBM and its 100 years in business — from making cheese graters to supercomputers, and much, much more. IBM is seen as…

IBM: Carbon nanotech coming soon to a phone near you

A research team from IBM has managed to produce an integrated circuit on a sheet of graphene, a sheet of carbon a single molecule…

Complicated email — There’s no central authority

Earlier this year Facebook announced a 95% reduction in certain kinds of spam. Taken at face(book) value, that sounds like a tremendous breakthrough, but…

Nine vintage technology videos

The glorious days of yesteryear. Days that invoke memories of a passing golden age of computing, when advancements were still met with scorn and…

Optimism high ahead of world’s largest IT gathering

The self-styled “Davos of high-tech” open on Tuesday with the IT industry in an optimistic mood and over 4,200 tech firms from 70 countries…

It’s elementary, dear Watson

In a spectacular showcase for IBM, supercomputer Watson defeated two quiz show heavyweights on the American show Jeopardy! over the first half of last…

12 predictions for the web

IBM Chairman Thomas Watson famously predicted in 1943: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” In the same decade the…

SecondLife, another graphic World Wide Web?

At the beginning of this year I blogged about the amazing work that Adam Pasick was doing with Reuters in Second Life, the virtual…

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