Can My Computer Poison Me?

Your computer's casing encloses some pretty toxic stuff. If you were to pick through its innards, you'd expose yourself to a whole bevy of chemicals. So how do you stay safe when you power up?

Can my computer poison me?

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Poll Results: Computer Configuration for Analytics

the typical analytics machine has 2 cores, 3 GB memory, 500 GB disk, and ...

Poll Results: Computer Configuration for Analytics

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Watson Computer Challenges Jeopardy! Game Show Champions

Watson, an I.B.M. Super Computer competes against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, combined $5.2 million Jeopardy! champions, on February 14, 15, and 16, 2011.

Watson Computer Challenges Jeopardy! Game Show Champions

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Santa via Cellphone: Shopping Online Without a Computer

This holiday season, consumers are beginning to shop and make purchases on their mobile phones and tablet computers.

Santa via Cellphone: Shopping Online Without a Computer

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IRS agent accused of stealing refunds, mis-using IRS computer network to pilfer funds

Oh, this is rich: an Internal Revenue service agent is accused of stealing taxpayers' refunds, and entering "fake tax refund requests and transfers in an IRS computer system so the money would go right back to her or relatives and friends."

IRS agent accused of stealing refunds, mis-using IRS computer network to pilfer funds

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Computer to race humans to drive deepest spikes on Jeopardy! railroad

IBM has evidently designed a computer system optimized for winning Jeopardy! and have arranged for it to duel John Henry or a reasonable facimile on TV:

Two of the venerable game show's most successful champions -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter -- will play two games against "Watson," a computer program developed by IBM's artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that will air Feb. 14-16, the game show said on Tuesday.

'Jeopardy!' to pit humans against IBM machine (via /.)

Computer to race humans to drive deepest spikes on Jeopardy! railroad

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Quanta Computer Rises to 4-Month High After November Sales Gain

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Quanta Computer Inc. rose to the highest in more than four months in Taipei after November sales rose to NT$100 billion from a month earlier.

Quanta Computer Rises to 4-Month High After November Sales Gain

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Pundit calls for development of magical anti-Wikileaks computer virus

It's hard to even begin to summarize coverage on Wikileaks-related stuff today. But if you read one thing, read Marc Thiessen's fresh item at the Washington Post. It's not the fact that he's vigorously opposed to Wikileaks that's interesting, but rather his understanding of the technology at the heart of this entire saga:

Pundit calls for development of magical anti-Wikileaks computer virus

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Greenpeace sues Dow Chemical and others over surveillance and computer hacking charges

NYT: The alleged spying occurred between 1998 and 2000 when Greenpeace was campaigning against the release of dioxin, a toxic byproduct of chemical manufacturing, in Lake Charles, Louisiana and other communities.

Greenpeace sues Dow Chemical and others over surveillance and computer hacking charges

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