Category: Ideas

  • Advance in AI may bring ‘bluffer’ type bots to online poker

    new poker AI bot in the making… from http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19426066.600-software-learns-when-it-pays-to-deceive.html Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, also at Witwatersrand, have developed a virtual player that has taught itself to bluff at a card game called lerpa. Their artificial intelligence bot, named Aiden, is based on a neural network algorithm that usually forecasts stock market fluctuations. Crucially, Aiden was…

  • The Next Web Awards

    The worldwide award for future accomplishments! The public awards for upcoming disruptive services, that will change the web. The ‘webby’ awards, v2.0

  • wunderLOOP: The start of a new wave of online advertising

    Panama, Yahoo’s new advertising platform, and its super abilities, is not the only online advertising technology that is going to be making waves in 2007. wunderLOOP, a Luxembourg-based behavioral advertising and content targeting company, is about to announce a big round of funding that would allow the company to expand and take on its bigger…

  • Priceless

    One gold-plated six-iron: €10.000 One shuttle flight into orbit: €500 million One International Space Station: €100 billion Playing golf with planet earth in the background, while doing the longest golf drive: Priceless.

  • Banksy: The Hacker of the Art world

    Banksy is to Art as Hackers are to I.T.Is Banksy a Hacker? Absolutely. His own words resume his style: The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that…