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Buzz Report: Computers play poker like babies

2007-08-01
hi I'm Hollywood and welcome to the buzzer pork and now for the gadget week the gadget of the week is the medicine celebrity laptop now this is a laptop with a champagne name and a beer budget it costs just one hundred fifty dollars now that makes it apparently the cheapest laptop in the world now I know what you're thinking what about the hundred-dollar one laptop per child thing but see buying that hundred-dollar laptop actually cost you around 175 dollars because you have to buy one for you and then one for some kid new developing nation I know right week I like my cheap laptops with no heart strings attached medicine celebrity all the way and now for the news the Weaver fitness craze just keeps rolling a Canadian gym is adding the wii alongside the treadmills and stair steppers studio 55 owner Nathan Malala says that members can use the wii fitness station to warm up or cool down or they can make it part of circuit training he says we tennis boxing or bowling of the equivalent of a decent little walk no word yet on how many calories you burn while waiting in line to use the wing station seriously though as well go there to play it you still can't find one to buy this week marked a milestone in presidential politics when CNN teamed up with YouTube to let ordinary citizens ask questions in video form of presidential candidates the first test was this past Monday in the Democratic presidential debate now the youtubers asked a lot of questions about health care here as usual the politicians wouldn't give any specifics about their plans for universal coverage I mean one poor sick baby was completely left out of the discussion who will cover the baby pandas who world of warcraft now has more than 9 million subscribers according to game maker blizzard and the company is launching its burning crusade expansion pack in China so it expects another huge bump and subscriber numbers as millions of Chinese get hooked on Wow hooked on WoW is the CIA behind this goodbye inevitable economic and military supremacy China researchers have developed a computer program that essentially understands baby talk the Stanford University team behind the research says the computer can track vowel sounds and learn language just like a baby something previously believed to be impossible what's next computer that grunts and cries all the time big deal it's probably just trying to poop I don't need any more diapers to change speaking of smart computers vancouver's man versus machine computer poker tournament has ended with the humans coming out on top professional poker player spill lock and alia salami came out five hundred seventy dollars a head in an extremely narrow victory over a computer named Polaris to be fair it was only that close because Polaris were really dark sunglasses and was listening to his iPod it's so hard to i'm molly wood and this has been the bus report thanks for watching
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