Egypt Comes To Google Street View
Built in the first half ot he 19th century, the Muhammad Ali Mosque's Ottoman styling broke with traditional Egyptian architecture.
Rethinking The Turing Test
At a competition in June, a chatbot named Eugene duped a group of human judges into believing it was a Ukrainian teenager. The judges hailed it as the first time a machine passed the Turing Test—that hallowed measure of artificial intelligence (AI) proposed by computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950.
Alibaba options expected to be listed on September 29: exchanges
The Chinese e-commerce company's options will be listed onCBOE Holdings Inc (CBOE.O) and International Securities Exchange Holdings' options exchanges on Sept. 29, pending the company's public sale of shares this week, the exchanges said on Tuesday.
Like Sassy Teenagers, Atoms Talk Back
If you talk to an artificial atom, it turns out the atom will say something back to you. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to hear it.
Yahoo wins battle in secretive surveillance court
Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30) said Thursday it won release of 1,500 pages of documents filed in a secretive surveillance court. It said the documents stem from an unsuccessful lawsuit it brought in 2008 challenging the government's right to demand user information.