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In The Esports Era, Chess Is Alive And Thriving - Forbes Now
Far from being a relic of the past, chess is thriving in the era of computers and esports.
20 Years Later, Humans Still No Match For Computers On The Chessboard - WNYC
WNYC
Next month, there's a world chess championship match in New York City, and the two competitors, the assembled grandmasters, the budding chess prodigies, the older chess fans — everyone paying attention — will know this indisputable fact: A computer ...
20 Years Later, Humans Still No Match For Computers On The Chessboard - WKNO FM
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WKNO FM
Next month, there's a world chess championship match in New York City, and the two competitors, the assembled grandmasters, the budding chess prodigies, the older chess fans — everyone paying attention — will know this indisputable fact: A computer ...
20 Years Later, Humans Still No Match For Computers On The Chessboard - NPR
NPR
NPR
Next month, there's a world chess championship match in New York City, and the two competitors, the assembled grandmasters, the budding chess prodigies, the older chess fans — everyone paying attention — will know this indisputable fact: A computer ...
20 Years Later, Humans Still No Match For Computers On The Chessboard - NPR
NPR
Next month, there's a world chess championship match in New York City, and the two competitors, the assembled grandmasters, the budding chess prodigies, the older chess fans — everyone paying attention — will know this indisputable fact: A computer ...
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First Computer to Match Humans in Conversational Speech Recognition - MIT Technology Review
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MIT Technology Review
First there was chess, then Jeopardy!, then Go, then object recognition, face recognition, and video gaming in general. You could be forgiven for thinking that humans are becoming obsolete. ... Today, Geoff Zweig and buddies at Microsoft Research in ...
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All the right moves on National Chess Day, Alabama chess calendar - AL.com
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AL.com
A'Zavier Foster makes the right move versus Jeffrey Green at the recent National Chess Day Scholastic Tournament held at Brookwood Village. The annual Chess Day tournament donates all proceeds to Children's of Alabama and promotes one of the ...
Making Sense of AT&T's Bid for Time Warner - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
“Let's be honest, prices aren't going to go down because of this,” said Rich Greenfield, a media analyst at BTIG Research. “I don't think vertical integration lends itself to consumer benefits.” Already, Donald J. .... In the chess game that is the ...
Here's Why AT&T and Time Warner Is Worse Than the AOL-Time Warner DealFortune
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WTF is machine learning? - TechCrunch
TechCrunch
TechCrunch
From our science fiction to our research labs, we have long questioned whether the creation of artificial versions of ourselves will somehow help us uncover the origin of our own consciousness, and more broadly, our role on earth. Unfortunately, the ...
Life Well Lived: Phil Chess, who helped bring blues music to America, dies at 95 - Today.com
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Today.com
Phil Chess, who helped capture the sounds of a generation and worked with legendary artists like Muddy Waters, Etta James, and Chuck Berry, passed away last Tuesday at his home in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 95. He helped bring the incredible ...
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Move over, lasers: Scientists can now create holograms from neutrons, too - Science Daily
Science Daily
Science Daily
The team's previous work, performed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), involved passing neutrons through a cylinder of aluminum that had a tiny "spiral staircase" carved into one of its circular faces. The cylinder's shape imparted a twist ...
What's on Tap for the Weekend in the Mid Hudson Valley Area - Patch.com
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Patch.com
Chess, Music, and Dance: The National Scholastic Chess Foundation (NSCF) is presenting an afternoon performance entitled “The Queen's Journey: An Exploration of Chess, Music and Dance” at ArtsWestchester on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The performance ...
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What's on Tap for the Weekend in the Yorktown-Somers Area - Patch.com
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Patch.com
Chess, Music, and Dance: The National Scholastic Chess Foundation (NSCF) is presenting an afternoon performance entitled “The Queen's Journey: An Exploration of Chess, Music and Dance” at ArtsWestchester on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The performance ...
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What's on Tap for the Weekend in the Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Area ... - Patch.com
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Patch.com
Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow, NY - Here are some things to do this fall weekend.
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Tournament crowns chess champs - NewsOK.com
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The chess team from Cheyenne Middle School in Edmond took home two trophies from the Carl Albert Scholastic Chess Open. Front row, from left, are Kaylee Gandhi, Jennifer Huang, Rylee Burgess-Sprinkle, Ben Hard and Paden Little Back row, from left, ...
The week's passages - The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
Phil Chess, 95, a co-founder with his brother, Leonard, of Chicago record label Chess Records in 1950, which amassed perhaps the most influential catalog of blues recordings, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James died ...
WWII veteran, 104, shares two keys to life at Brockton party - Enterprise News
Enterprise News
Enterprise News
Leighton had a humble background as a boy raised by Cape Verdean immigrants from the island of Brava, growing up as an avid chess player in New Bedford and in the Cape Cod area, where he worked as a youngster on a cranberry bog. His last name was ...
The world according to chess - AdVantage News
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AdVantage News
Reflecting upon his research and the central theme of “America's Chess Board,” Taylor says he is grateful for his place in the world's scope. “The Heavenly Father gave each and every nation their own culture, their own language, their own history,” he ...
Fort Lauderdale Alliance nearly doubles job growth during year - Sun Sentinel
Sun Sentinel
Sun Sentinel
The city of Sunrise Scholastic Chess Initiative and the Broward County Public Schools Debate Initiative, led by the Gunster law firm, received the Alliance's Educational Excellence Builds Business Partnership Award. mpounds@sunsentinel.com or 561-243- ...
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