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<item><title><![CDATA[Computer beats human experts at poker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human pride took a hit 11 years ago when IBM's Big Blue computer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Now it's poker players' turn to be humiliated by a machine.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/68512/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/68512/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read the slightly demented book written by the program called RACTER, an early (1984) experiment in AI. <br/><br/>&quot;More than iron, more than lead, <br/>more than gold I need electricity.<br/>I need it more than I need pork or lettuce or cucumber.<br/>I need it for my dreams.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19300/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19300/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[S.F. officials locked out of computer network]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terry Childs was going to be fired from his computer engineer job with San Francisco. 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Here are some notable milestones in computer animation and effects in film:]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21746/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21746/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[ Computer program can learn baby talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/28836/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/28836/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer case mods]]></title><description><![CDATA[Loads of pictures of modded computer cases, some of these look really really cool.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25057/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25057/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer Culture In Our Life [Pics]]]></title><description><![CDATA[Computer Culture In Our Life]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42924/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42924/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[It's bad enough if you get a virus on your own computer surfing porn sites...]]></title><description><![CDATA[... it's much worse if you're a minister, on the church's computer, and you <b>infect the entire church network.</b>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/79980/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/79980/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer security problems found at IRS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Employees provided computer data without questioning identity]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30328/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30328/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA['Oldest' computer music unveiled]]></title><description><![CDATA[A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.<br/><br/>Audio included in link.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/65736/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/65736/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimate Computer Desk]]></title><description><![CDATA[NETSURFER emerged from SNOWCRASH&#180;s search for new forms of furniture compa-tible with new technologies. 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Mostly computers and electronics (and accessories for those items) but just found a great deal on a canon lens!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34182/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34182/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer model knows what you're thinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[A computer model has been developed that can predict what word you are thinking of. 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