Remember Watson and Deep Blue, IBM’s mega-supercomputing projects knocking off chess and Jeopardy champions? IBM researchers have another version, Deep Thunder, focused on ultra-precise, ultra-localized weather forecasting. And it’s about to show up as an app on your iPad.
Remember Kindee Durkee, the California bookkeeper accused of bilking her high-powered Democratic campaign clients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars?
She also did the books for a scam “Californians for Obama” political action committee, that four years on from the 2008 election has finally been rebuked by the FEC.
Fun times.
Tantalizing new evidence suggests that one of the constants of American politics — namely, that Medicare costs are on an ever-steepening upward curve that threaten the fiscal solvency of the federal government — may not be so constant after all. Sahil Kapur assesses the political implications of some new numbers.
This weekend marked one year since an earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated the coast of the northeastern Japan.
Here are remarkable images of recovery – 12 months on.
Poll: Deep South Republicans think Obama is a Muslim and aren’t crazy about interracial marriage.
DOJ objects to GOP voter ID law in Texas on grounds that it’s discriminatory against Hispanic voters.
On the day he turns 65, Mitt Romney enters new and uncharted waters of Medicare bamboozlement.
A new recall election is certified in Wisconsin. This time it’s against Republican state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.