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Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo star in the new trailer for Queen of Katwe - The Independent
The Independent
The Independent
Disney has released a new trailer for Queen of Katwe, the true story of a Ugandan chess champion Phiona Mutesi, starring Oscar winner and Tony nominated Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) and David Oyelowo (Selma). The sports film, directed by Mira ...
Queen of Katwe trailer: Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo star in Disney filmEntertainment Weekly
Lupita Nyong'o praises the resilience of Ugandans in new filmTV3.ie
Watch First Trailer for 'Queen of Katwe' Starring Lupita Nyong'o and David OyelowoAceShowbiz
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IBM's Watson Supercomputer Trains Up for Cyber Security - Infosecurity Magazine
Infosecurity Magazine
Infosecurity Magazine
IBM Security has announced a year-long research project to train the Watson supercomputer for cognitive cybersecurity. Watson, which has made headlines for artificial intelligence projects and chess matches, will be made smarter in partnership with ...
IBM makes a big shift into cognitive computingWaterbury Republican American
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Your Helpful Colleague the Robot - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Ten years after IBM IBM 1.78 % 's Deep Blue supercomputer stunned the world by beating world chess champion Garry Kasparov, artificial intelligence has scored another historic victory. In March, Google's AlphaGo software trounced South Korea's Lee ...
Disney World attendance slips - Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
"Nonetheless, the number was disappointing in light of other media peers reporting much stronger advertising growth," according to a research note from the Edward Jones firm. In Disney's second quarter, the company abruptly announced the departure of ...
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North Shore Community Calendar - The Salem News
The Salem News
Beverly: “Explore Your Italian Roots,” 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Italian Community Center, 302 Rantoul St. Mary Tedesco discusses ancestry in Italy and genealogical research. Presented by Beverly Historical Society. $20 per person; $10 for Beverly High School ...
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Film project to address heroin epidemic - Waupaca County News
Waupaca County News
Waupaca County News
Auditions are open to area students ages 15 to 18, with the roles including a quarterback, a science geek, a chess player and others. The film is a story involving superheroes helping solve the heroin/opioid epidemic and building hope in communities ...
Queen of Katwe: See Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo in trailer for upcoming Disney film - Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
In the film, which also stars David Oyelowo (Selma), Nyong'o plays Harriet Mutesi, the mother to a young girl with a prodigious penchant for chess. Despite the family's impoverished ... It was research, obstacle and inspiration.” WANT MORE EW ...
Can Exercise Cure Depression? - Newsmax
Newsmax
Newsmax
“From a metabolic standpoint, vigorous exercise is the most demanding activity the brain encounters, much more intense than calculus or chess, but nobody knows what happens with all that energy. Apparently, one of the things it's doing is making more ...
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Stop Planning Your Career and Start Taking Action - Fox News
Fox News
According to recent research conducted by The Harris Poll and University of Phoenix School of Business, roughly 19 percent of working adults and job seekers when it comes to their career path, “have no idea where they are heading.” While 28 percent say ...
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Can You Squeeze Real Value from Artificial Intelligence? - CMSWire
CMSWire
CMSWire
The USA responded with a 10 year research project CyC to give computers common sense reasoning power. HAL 2001 still had 16 ... speed the search. As complex as chess may be, real world situations are even more complex and hence more challenging.
Blockchain is over-hyped but still part of the solution - The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review
The release of a number of papers analysing the potential impact of blockchain on global securities markets has confirmed what many have been privately thinking for some time – the technology has been over-hyped. Papers published in the past month by ...
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This Calculator Estimates How Much Slower You'll Run With Age - Lifehacker Australia
Lifehacker Australia
Lifehacker Australia
Try as we might to fight or deny it, old age will impact our running and athletic ability. By age 35, the rates of decline are so predictably linear that this calculator by a Yale economics professor maps out just how slowly you can expect to run the ...
Want to increase your kids fruit intake? Make them play these videogames - Times of India
Times of India
Times of India
II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in the US evaluated how creating implementation intentions (ie, specific plans) within the goal-setting component in the game helped ...
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IBM makes a big shift into cognitive computing - Waterbury Republican American
Waterbury Republican American
Waterbury Republican American
IBM's California research lab sits atop a green hill here, 15 miles south of downtown San Jose. ... An earlier IBM artificial intelligence, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion in 1995 by computing every possible move and picking the best option ...
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In memoriam: Solomon Golomb, communications technology pioneer, 83 - USC News
USC News
USC News
His work on shift-register sequences is integral to the function of cellular phones, while his cryptology research ushered in new approaches for securing communications signals. “Professor Golomb was truly a giant in the field of mathematics and ...
In memoriam: Solomon Golomb, communications technology pioneer, 83 - USC News
USC News
His work on shift-register sequences is integral to the function of cellular phones, while his cryptology research ushered in new approaches for securing communications signals. “Professor Golomb was truly a giant in the field of mathematics and ...
Cardinals bonding over chess in clubhouse - MLB.com
ST. LOUIS -- It's four hours before first pitch on a recent weekday afternoon, but the competition inside Busch Stadium is already reaching its climax.
Cardinals bonding over chess in clubhouse - MLB.com
MLB.com
MLB.com
... coincidentally, that New Yorker Magazine recently described as the country's emerging chess hub. That's in large part to Rex Sinquefield, retired financial executive and president of the CCSCSL. He's also a friend of Matheny's, the two having met ...
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Cardinals bonding over chess in clubhouse - MLB.com
MLB.com
MLB.com
A wooden board -- dotted by black and cream hand-carved pieces -- appeared in the clubhouse in mid-April as a gift from the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. Manager Mike Matheny, who appears on local billboards and commercials to ...
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Cardinals bonding over chess in clubhouse - MLB.com
MLB.com
MLB.com
Manager Mike Matheny, who appears on local billboards and commercials to promote the center, became an avid chess player after reading research that it helped manage post-concussion symptoms. When Matheny placed the board in the clubhouse, ...
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