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Cinema becomes war zone for "Call of Duty" eSports fans - Reuters
Reuters
So-called "eSports" are set to generate almost $500 million a year in revenues globally by 2017, according to research firm Newzoo. ... The atmosphere veers from the quiet tension of a chess match to the quick-fire highs and lows of a Formula One race.
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Computer squares off against professional poker players – and loses badly - ZME Science
ZME Science
ZME Science
Even the best chess players are no match for computers these days, but computers are still struggling when it comes to games that have a random or unknown component. In games like Bridge or Poker, humans still hold the crown. Scientists from the ...
Can a computer beat one of the world's best poker players?CBS News
CMU AI Claudico Is Good At Poker But Not Good Enough For World's Best ...Tech Times
First-Ever Computer Versus Human Poker Competition Ends in Statistical Tie90.5 WESA
Techie News -Virtual Press Office (press release)
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Our Resident Grandmaster: Ben Finegold | Saint Louis Chess Club - Saint Louis Chess Club |
Device takes design into the next dimension - messenger-inquirer
messenger-inquirer
messenger-inquirer
Bailes, who has been working with 3-D printing at OCTC since 2003, said the 3-D printers have been around for nearly three decades, but they were mostly for industry, engineering and research use. But within the past five years, he said, they've become ...
Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat? - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Taking part in the discussion are Jaan Tallinn, a co-founder of Skype and the think tanks Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute; Guruduth S. Banavar, vice president of cognitive computing at IBM's Thomas J. Watson ...
Game of Thrones recap: "Kill the Boy" - ChicagoNow (blog)
ChicagoNow (blog)
ChicagoNow (blog)
Most of the Night's Watch are against this move, but Jon is playing "Winter is Coming" chess and knows that they'll be better off in the long run with a bunch of live wildlings instead of an army of cold, dead white walkers. Not just a pedestal to hold ...
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Clubs & Meetings: Week of May 11 - The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier
Northern Arizona Genealogy Society free assistance with genealogy research, 1 to 3 p.m. the 2nd and 4th Thursday by appointment at Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St. 928-777-1500. Occupy Prescott, in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, meets 5 ...
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How chess is putting sagging grades in checkmate - The Educator
The Educator
The Educator
John Adams, government relations director with the Australian Chess Federation (ACF), recently announced plans to conduct a research project drawing on a large international body of work into the positive impacts of the game on brain development.
Killip Chess Power AZ state champs again - Arizona Daily Sun
Arizona Daily Sun
Arizona Daily Sun
The weekend of May 2, at the 2015 Arizona State Scholastic Chess Championships in Gilbert, the students of Killip Chess endured another hard-fought battle, but in the end they preserved their championship streak, making it eight years in a row. The K-5 ...
Researchers identify promising combination strategy for treating glioblastomas - News-Medical.net
News-Medical.net
News-Medical.net
To address this, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center identified a promising combinatorial approach to treating glioblastomas, the most common form of primary brain cancer. The study, published ...
New combination treatment strategy to 'checkmate' glioblastomaMedical Xpress
Anti-cancer drugs: New combination treatment strategy to 'checkmate' glioblastomaScience Codex
New Combination Treatment Strategy to "Checkmate" GlioblastomaNewswise (press release)
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The overbooked generation - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor
Studies repeatedly show that if kids are going to derail – whether by joining gangs; trying drugs, alcohol, or sex; or committing crimes – it is most likely to happen between 3 and 6 p.m. At the same time, a large and growing body of research ...
6 effective ways to fight absent-mindedness - Times of India
Times of India
Times of India
A better and cheaper alternative are games like chess or Scrabble, which is great for improving your vocabulary. Abstract or rare words are stored separately from common words in the brain, and without regular use, these areas can wither away in older ...
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Youth on the Go: May 10, 2015 - The Daily Freeman
The Daily Freeman
(Standalone) The Mighty Pawns chess team from St. Joseph School in Kingston competed at the New York State Chess Championships in Saratoga Springs. In the Primary Division, featuring students in grade K-3, St. Joseph came in seventh place. In the ...
2015 honors: Carbondale Community High School - The Southern
The Southern
The Southern
He is a member of African American History Club, Key Club, and French and chess clubs. The son of Patricia Matthews and Marcus Deamer, he plans to study arts and sciences. Goodale, 18, is an Illinois State Scholar, in French National Honor Society ...
2015 honors: Carbondale Community High School - The Southern
The Southern
The Southern
He is a member of African American History Club, Key Club, and French and chess clubs. The son of ... Xiao, 17, maintained a class rank of number one all four years, maintained a maximum GPA of 4.3405, achieved a perfect score of 36 on the ACT and was ...
Andrea Sachs: Could a mask maker's quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about ... - Tulsa World
Tulsa World
Gankhuyag "Ganna" Natsag's journey, or at least one leg of it, started after midnight in New Delhi. Under a dark December sky, the Mongolian-American artist boarded a minibus with six other passengers and several large boxes. The one labeled "fragile" ...
My Saved articles - Mumbai Mirror
Mumbai Mirror
Mumbai Mirror
Are you always forgetting where you left your keys? Do you remember to send important birthday greetings? Every day the human brain loses thousands of cells, and as we reach our late 50s, the rate of loss begins to speed up. But there's plenty you can ...
John Urschel - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
John Urschel is an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens as well as a mathematician who has had his research published in peer-reviewed academic journals in his free time. ... COMPETING I competed in my first-ever chess tournament not long ago.
Can a computer beat one of the world's best poker players? - CBS News
CBS News
CBS News
Strategy games such as chess have long been considered important ways to measure artificial intelligence. But A.I. researchers at Carnegie Mellon University chose a different, and in some ways, more challenging game: poker. Susan Koeppen of CBS ...
First-Ever Computer Versus Human Poker Competition Ends in Statistical Tie90.5 WESA
Poker Pros Rake In More Chips Than Carnegie Mellon's Artificial Intelligence ...Virtual Press Office (press release)
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The Inhuman Failure of "Austerity" - Truth-Out
Truth-Out
Cultivates the arts and research to discover beauty and the unknown. An affluent society that .... Teens could have tutoring, learn to play chess, take music lessons, cooking classes, creative writing, languages, and have supervised sports. The ...