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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Sat, 01/16/2016 - 23:08

Greenwich Time

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...

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Pittsburgh company helps teens navigate social media - wwlp.com

Sat, 01/16/2016 - 13:31

wwlp.com

Pittsburgh company helps teens navigate social media
wwlp.com
Not long after the use of mobile phones was opened up in 2009, some handsets came pre-installed with games such as Tetris or janggi, a chess-like game that is popular across East Asia. As phones and to a lesser extent tablets have become more ...

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Spotlight on schools - Herald and News

Sat, 01/16/2016 - 10:46

Spotlight on schools
Herald and News
Districtwide —Monday: No school in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday; “I Have a Dream” Chess Tournament 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Mills Elementary School open to all ages. Friday: ... Wednesday: Nutrition classes presented by Klamath Basin ...

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Sinking oil price reflects broader market uncertainty - Calgary Herald

Sat, 01/16/2016 - 06:00

Calgary Herald

Sinking oil price reflects broader market uncertainty
Calgary Herald
“This is risk aversion writ large,” said Michael Wittner, who leads global oil and gas research for Societe Generale. “We are way below market fundamentals for oil that should have created a floor (for the price).” That said, a look at trading ...

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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 23:03

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...

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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 18:38

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
Redlands Daily Facts
At today's meeting, Kevin Grisham, assistant director of research at Cal State San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, will speak on “San Bernardino Shooting Aftermath: Resisting the Call of Hate.” The meeting is open to the public ...

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Can robots replace intelligence? Humanity? - Houston Chronicle

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 16:53

Houston Chronicle

Can robots replace intelligence? Humanity?
Houston Chronicle
Both research trajectories have made significant strides. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world chess champion, and in 2011, Watson beat "Jeopardy" whizzes Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, marking significant steps on the ...

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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 16:01

Greenwich Time

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...

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Loose Lips Sink Careers, Even for CEOs - New York Times

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 14:24

New York Times

Loose Lips Sink Careers, Even for CEOs
New York Times
“This sort of becomes a chess match now of public opinion — which is sad, because ultimately it should be about the facts,” he said. Mr. Shkreli added: “I feel like I'm being prosecuted for being a jerk.” After hearing from him, I retained my ...

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Here's how the best-performing hedge fund of 2016 is crushing it - Business Insider

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 12:56

Business Insider

Here's how the best-performing hedge fund of 2016 is crushing it
Business Insider
giant chess, chess, knight Reuters/Luke MacGregorFigures from "The Tournament," a giant chess set designed by Jaime Hayon of Spain, seen by Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in central London in 2009.

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Relations Between Russia, Turkey Complicate ISIS Fight - Washington Free Beacon

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 09:05

Relations Between Russia, Turkey Complicate ISIS Fight
Washington Free Beacon
... followed by supposed documentation released by Russian officials to Russian state media, including RT and Sputnik, and then rapidly echoed by “independent research” groups often cited by Russian state media, including the Center for Research on ...

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Alexey Navalny's Very Strange Form of Freedom - The New Yorker

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 04:01

The New Yorker

Alexey Navalny's Very Strange Form of Freedom
The New Yorker
... in 2011 and 2012: Boris Nemtsov, the liberal, is dead, shot in view of the Kremlin in February of last year; Sergei Udaltsov, the radical leftist, is in jail, serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Russian ...

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Not so science fiction after all, the internet could out-evolve humanity - The Conversation AU

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 19:37

The Conversation AU

Not so science fiction after all, the internet could out-evolve humanity
The Conversation AU
Darrell Kemp receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery-Programs scheme grants DP140104107 & DP160103668). Martin Hilbert does not work ... Artificial intelligence can beat us in chess and on game shows. What's more, it's faster ...

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“It's Gravity Meets Night of the Living Dead!”: A Review of 400 Days - Locus Online

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 16:22

“It's Gravity Meets Night of the Living Dead!”: A Review of 400 Days
Locus Online
The astronauts are also given personal journals and playing cards, recalling Frank Poole's game of chess with HAL, and exercise machines are available in both The Martian and 400 Days (though Poole had to jog around Discovery's circular chamber ...

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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 15:55

Greenwich Time

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...

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Anita Sinclair: Creating Community Access to Art - Long Beach Post

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 15:41

Long Beach Post

Anita Sinclair: Creating Community Access to Art
Long Beach Post
The park supervisor granted us access to the chess room, more than doubling the classroom space. Now, we are negotiating a closet. I would love to see a big, beautiful studio with a large gas kiln, but a closet would be a major victory! It is a really ...

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Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports - VentureBeat

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 13:25

VentureBeat

Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports
VentureBeat
“According to research undertaken by Newzoo, esports audiences currently rival those of the NHL, and should reach NFL levels by 2017,” VB Insight marketing technology director Stewart Rogers told GamesBeat. “That isn't the whole story; the average ...

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Alumnus on Forbes 2016 '30 Under 30′ List for Health Care - Tennessee Today

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 10:35

Tennessee Today

Alumnus on Forbes 2016 '30 Under 30′ List for Health Care
Tennessee Today
As a child, Madhukar loved puzzles and spent many afternoons playing chess—activities he believed helped him eventually develop the problem-oriented mindset needed for research. Madhukar developed UT ties during his middle and high school years in ...

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Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 10:29

Forward

Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul'
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...

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Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward

Thu, 01/14/2016 - 10:28

Forward

Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul'
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...

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