A new California-like law goes into effect next week in Nevada, making it illegal to text-and-drive, as well as use handheld devices for verbal and non-verbal communications. While it\’s not clear to me if truckers got a carveout for CB […]
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Tim Chilcote OP-ED Machines have always been the enemy of man, at least in movies and on television, yet somehow we never see our A.I. overlords coming until it’s too late. Case in point, in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Doctor
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It really is amazing, when you think about it, that 10s of millions of people worldwide are competing in games (whether they be sports or shoot-em-ups) on XBox Live, and they\’re doing it for no money! But with Sega opening
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Legendary chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is in the New York Review of Books saying (via the NY Times ideasblog) it\’s time for computer programmers who make chess-related AI to learn a thing or two from the people (bots?) playing programmable
This isn\’t particularly new — has been out there since August — but it\’s the first I noticed … Zynga, the free Texas Hold\’em game on Facebook and MySpace and therefore one of the biggest online poker communities out there,
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We\’re not the only ones intrigued by the Kennedy vs. Full Tilt bot case. Courthouse News Service took note. It\’s like a Thrillist for lawyers … a subscription newsletter keeping attorneys abreast of \”the most prolific and weighty litigation\” in
Kennedy is the real plaintiff. Greg Omoroy is just a guy who owned another account she used (which is a whole-nother issue altogether). And though they aren\’t formally seeking class-action status, they do seem to be laying the groundwork for
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Two players in California have sued presumable principals of Full Tilt Poker in LA Superior Court. Lary Kennedy (aka Poker Girl) and Greg Omotoy (a Vegas-reared LA nightclub manager) claim that Full Tilt confiscated $80,000 from their accounts, believing they
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It\’s not quite 60 Minutes … in fact, it\’s closer to 73 minutes. Absolute Poker/Ultimate Bet honcho Paul Leggett speaks with the CBC\’s (Canadian Broadcast Company) Susan Reisler for an extremely detailed and stoic Q&A. I can tell you I\’m
A declared working poker bot operation in Dallas, TX, and on PokerStars. A fascinating (if not challenging) story that you can only presume would be of great interest to anyone in the online poker-room security biz, or anyone who wants
