Stephen Baker News
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Jawbone, the maker of wireless audio and fitness-tracking devices, is buying BodyMedia Inc. for $110 million, according to people with knowledge of the deal’s price.
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Plenty of observers have weighed in on Watson, the computer that International Business Machines Corp. built and programmed to play the quiz show “Jeopardy!” Few have done it better than Stephen Baker, author of “ Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything .”
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This “Jeopardy!” champion, more than any other, helped International Business Machines Corp. develop a computer capable of playing the television quiz show.
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The Geek Squad is going where no geek has gone before.
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To take on Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in the global smartphone market, China’s TCL Corp. is enlisting a strong ally: Iron Man.
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International Business Machines Corp.’s Watson computer, which beat champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” a year ago, will soon be advising Wall Street on risks, portfolios and clients.
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An iPad is an iPad is an iPad.
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Apple Inc.’s iCloud service, part of its first product release since the Oct. 5 death of Steve Jobs, may cement the loyalty of millions of consumers lured by Jobs’s pioneering mobile devices over the past decade.
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Even before starting work as Best Buy Co.’s new chief executive officer, Hubert Joly zeroed in on the chain’s strategy to open smaller stores dedicated to selling mobile phones, e-readers and tablets.
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Body bombs, the latest terrorist threat flagged by U.S. officials, may prove to be as difficult for would-be attackers to use with the desired effect as they are for airport screeners to detect.
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