IBM Watson Hits Jeopardy to Destroy All Humans

It's not self aware... yet.

IBM designed a computer that could beat a chess player. While a computer-run chess program isn't new, it was an achievement for a program to best the best chess player in the world.

Now more than a decade later, IBM has set out to own the game show of trivia known as Jeopardy. IBM and the game show have teamed up to deliver a special charity edition of the show where the top two human Jeopardy players faced off against IBM's Watson supercomputer and program.

Samsung Shows All-new Galaxy S II Android 2.3

A new Galaxy is born.

The line of Galaxy phones has been tremendously successful for Samsung. Its use of the homegrown Hummingbird processor and great Super AMOLED screens have made it a great Android choice. Google even selected the hardware platform for its Nexus S flagship phone.

This New Android Phone Has Two Useful Displays

It looks a little bit like a DS.

Sprint teased that something big was coming and we now know that it was partnering with Kyocera Communications to bring the first dual-touchscreen Android smartphone, called the Kyocera Echo.

The Echo features two high-resolution 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen displays connected by a patent-pending "pivot hinge" that enables the two displays to operate independently, side-by-side or combined to form an oversized 4.7-inch (diagonally) integrated display.

Intel's Sandy Bridge E-Series in Q4 2011?

Intel is reportedly launching the Core i7 9-series Extreme Edition sometime this summer before unleashing the Sandy Bridge E-Series for enthusiasts later this year.

A recent report indicates that Intel's upcoming enthusiast-class Sandy Bridge E-Series processors have been delayed by at least a whole quarter, now slated for a Q4 2011 release.

MeeGo Drops Netbooks

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop may have questioned the future of MeeGo in his burning platform memo and covered the OS at least with uncertainty.

What app
ears to be certain however, is that the Netbook version of MeeGo is canceled. Developer Andrew Wafaa, who had been working on Smeegol, a repackaged UI for Moblin and MeeGo based on OpenSUSE, said that the MeeGo Netbook interface is essentially dead.