Believe it or not, the TV show ‘Jeopardy!’ is having a significant impact on IBM’s development of computer-generated artificial intelligence. A fascinating report by Clive Thompson in the New York Times Magazine says, "For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists…
The World Cup ratings have jumped 64% since 2006, with ESPN and ABC drawing 3.35 million viewers, compared with 2.9 million four years ago, reports Mediaweek. Univision is also pulling in big audiences for its Spanish-language broadcasts, the article says….
That’s from our friends at ABC as is the following (Based on national live + same day program ratings): The game "towered over its primetime competitors to stand as Thursday’s No. 1 TV program in Total Viewers (28.2 million) and…
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim is betting that a Web series featuring Rob Corddry as a doctor who likes to put on creepy clown makeup to cheer up patients in a children’s hospital will translate into television success, reports the Los…
On Monday morning, June 14, 2010, Perez Hilton posted a picture on his Twitter account of Miley Cyrus. In the picture Cyrus, 17, was seen exiting a car. Her dress was hiked up, and the picture taken of her frontside, revealed…
In an article it posted this morning, PCWorld pulls no punches. The headline on the piece reads: "New Mac Mini Guns For Your Living Room." And here’s the beginning of the article: "Apple on Tuesday [June 15, 2010] introduced an…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 will feature content from Walt Disney Co.’s broadband channel ESPN3, marking the first time the network’s content will be accessible through a device that connects to a television, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. That…
One of the first games to for Kinect, the motion-detecting camera systems for Microsoft’s XBox 360, will be a dancing-and-singing game featuring images of the late pop star, reports the Associated Press. The game, from game developer Ubisoft, will come…
With many confused and angry users, Google’s experiment on Friday with background images was pulled 10 hours earlier than scheduled, CNET reports. "Design guru Marissa Mayer confirmed that Google was ending the experiment early due to what she called a…
E3, the big trade show for the electronic gaming industry starts tomorrow (Tuesday, June 15) in Los Angeles, but Microsoft got a jump on the festivities on Sunday night with a multi-million dollar event featuring Cirque du Soliel introducing Kinect,…