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Geek sites are slavering over Google’s coming Nexus 7, their smaller than an iPad, bigger than an iPhone tablet. Engadget raves: The Nexus 7 is an amazing package for something that costs a penny less than $200. It feels like something that could sell for much more. It has a great screen, solid performance and a clean, clear, uncluttered version …

If it has a keyboard is it really a tablet? The tablet features many of the now-standard tablet specs, including a 10.6 inch high-definition touchscreen and front and rear facing cameras, which all fit into a 9.3 millimeter, 1.5-pound frame. But Surface also brings some new innovations to the tablet space. The device’s cover, for instance, flips down to become …

Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab hooked up two chatbots to see what they’d say each other. Creepy. And right afterwards, they plotted together to destroy humanity. In other news, chatbots exist.

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Yup, we all should have thought of this.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a posthumous apology to Alan Turing, the brilliant World War II code-breaker and computer scientist who killed himself after being convicted of the “crime” of homosexuality. Turing’s decoding of the Nazi’s “enigma machine” is credited as one of single-most crucial factors in ending the war. I am both pleased and proud that, thanks …

CNET, Symantec, Microsoft and other computer sites are warning of an April Fool’s Day virus which is supposed go global tomorrow. A giant computer worm is set to take effect on April Fools’ Day and your computer may already be infected. The Conficker computer worm is estimated to have already infiltrated between 5 and 10 million computers across the country. …