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CES 2009: PC Building Competition
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a contest representative finally came by to check on Angelini's machine, at least ten other contestants had booted up their machines, and managed to ping the contest server (a contestant's proof of success). Contest staff evaluted Angelini's hardware and concluded...
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Lock picking draws a crowd
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was demonstrated during the lock picking contest. The contest had about seventy contestants in all, with only three of those contestants making it to the second round. The event organizer said that last year, locks were being picked after five or six seconds,...
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Submit Your Fanfic to Win an Uncharted 2 Beta Key
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these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. 5. The Contest: a. There will be one contest, which will run from June 17, 2009 (12:01 am PST, GMT -8) through June 21, 2009 (11:59 pm PST, GMT -8).b. Contestants register for the contest...
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Quest for the World's First "Thinking" Computer
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determine if a computer is actually thinking as Turing dictated. This report by Will Pavia of Times Online dictates his experience with the many entrants. As one of the judges, he sat down and conversed with each artificial contestant. The winner walks away...
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Netflix Gives $1,000,000 Prize to Team of Seven
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software that was the required 10 percent more accurate than Cinematch. As per the contest rules, there was then a 30-day period in which other contestants could try to beat BellKor and one other team, Ensemble, came incredibly close. While Netflix publicly...
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Acer Launches Video Contest
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Buy, Circuit City, Walmart, Radio Shack, Office Max and more. Of course, the easiest - or rather the cheapest - way to obtain one of these netbooks is to submit a video to Acer's contest. The company suggests that contestants be creative, keep the video's...
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Benchmark Setup
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of 3DMark2001SE. This hints in the direction that the performance of Mobility Radeon 9000 might be lagging behind NVIDIA's upcoming chip at this high resolution. A look at the fill rate scores of the four contestants is somewhat sobering. While Mobility Radeon...
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Enterprise Products
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short it just didn't make the cut. This may be a good thing, however, since I can't believe the market will ultimately support every company that's decided to jump in. So next time around my job may be easier as some of the contestants get voted off the WLAN...
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Quality Sound Ambitions: Altec, Creative and Logitech 2.1 Sound Systems
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but is sometimes bi-amplified. This attribute is arguably superfluous for this sort of equipment. It rather looks as though our three contestants consulted each other over the design of their satellites. The idea seems to have been to make them as slim as possible...