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Russian President drives into crowd

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was so eager to glad-hand the people of Kazan, a city 720 km (450 miles) east of Moscow, that he stepped …
Texter tossed from Texas theater unwittingly stars in PSA

Don't think she didn't have it coming. She was warned. Twice.
Palin's e-mailings
The typo that exposed Weiner
What does your social networking profile pic reveal about you?

Curious about why people choose the pics they do, she decided to survey Facebook users (via a specially created Facebook group, natch).
Trekkies can now display their fandom pride even after death

Are you worried that your final resting place won't adequately indicate your love of Star Trek? Fear not.
Facebook "likes" decides whether plant lives or dies

"Meet Eater" is a plant with a Facebook account, and when people "like" it, it gets watered. But there can be such a thing as too much …
Israel buys @israel Twitter handle from porn merchant

"My account was basically unused because I was getting dozens of replies every day from people who thought the account belonged to the …
There's an app for that?: AR Drone

There are any number of flight simulator games for iOS, but only AR Drone actually allows you to control a tiny unmanned quadricopter.

Rise of the machines: IBM supercomputer to take on Jeopardy! champ

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May 01, 2009, 1:20 PM — 12 years ago, IBM's Deep Blue took on chess champ Gary Kasparov in a six-game series and beat him. Now the company is trying what may be a much trickier task: establishing computer dominance in Jeopardy! IBM's Watson supercomputer will not only need to know a host of trivia, but will also have to perform quick natural language processing -- something that's bedeviled AI researchers for years. And it may have to defeat 74-time winner Ken Jennings to boot.

Amy Bennett is ITworld's managing editor. Follow her on Google+ and Twitter @atbennett

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New photo of Wii U tablet controller leaks ahead of E3

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Java creator unhappy with Oracle trial outcome

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Money, not technology, drives cloud growth, IT shrinkage

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MIT scientists solve the Ketchup Bottle Dilemma

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