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Jeopardy Exhibition Ends, Ken Jennings Welcomes New Overlord
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Games, Reality, Specials, Syndication, Video,
In this week’s three-day exhibition, Jeopardy pit two of its finest minds -- champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter -- against the newest artificial mind designed by IBM. The supercomputer Watson took on the two champs in a two-game session that left the human contestants battling for a moment just to buzz in as each question was fired out by Alex Trebek.
At the end of the two-game, three-day session, Watson dominated. The computer scored a sum of $77,147 (the total comes from Watson’s odd penchant for betting off dollar amounts in Double and Final Jeopardy rounds), with Jennings scoring $24,000 and Rutter $21,600 at the end of two Final Jeopardy rounds. For his Final Jeopardy answer (which he got correct), Jennings added a personal message: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.”
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Bieber Fever Infects Twitter in Post-Grammy Reactions
Even Esperanza Spalding was surprised when her name was called at the Grammys as the “Best New Artist” award winner.
Many fans believed the trophy would go to Justin Bieber, but some have become much more vicious in expressing their surprise than others.
Following Spalding’s Grammy upset, upset Justin Bieber followers directed their tweets at Esperanza.
“@ESPESPALDING @THEGRAMMYS Congrats u ppl! U just crushed a 16yr old boys dreams...hope ur proud of urselves! -_- #JustinDeservedIt”
“So, @EspeSpalding just won with less than 10,000 followers on twitter. LOL. Sorry, I must have accidently turned my t.v to Punk'd. #Grammys”
Other commenters got to the point much more quickly. One posts simply reads “@EspeSpalding hate u.”
Hear Bieber’s reaction to all the Twitter melodrama in the video from E! above.
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Neve Campbell, Wes Craven Talk Scream 4
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Horror, Sequels, Trailers, Upcoming Releases,
Scream 4, according to actress Neve Campbell, will be both “very scary” and “very funny.” Campbell went to to say that writer/director "Wes Craven is brilliant."
Craven himself is expressing excitement about the flick as we draw closer to its April 15 release date. It seems even the day is meant to poke a little scary fun at audiences -- because what’s more terrifying than the day everyone’s income tax returns are due? “The young cast brings a whole different world to [the Scream franchise] and a whole different take on horror,” Craven said.
“It’s a lot about looking back on the last ten years of horror and comparing it and contrasting it and having fun with it,” he said. And nobody has as much fun with horror as Wes Craven.
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Survivor’s Redemption Island: Rob vs. Russell, Ver. 2
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Prime Time, Reality, CBS, Survivor, Video,
The 22nd season of Survivor will reunite two of the show’s most infamous villains -- “Boston Rob” Mariano and Russell Hantz. The two will be pitted against each other on opposing teams populated with 16 Survivor newbies.
Survivor: Redemption Island is set in Nicaragua and brings a brand-new twist to the well-known reality game: eliminated players get a second chance. Players who are voted off will not leave in this version of the game. Instead, they'll be exiled to Redemption Island. On the island, they'll have to survive until another contestant has been voted off to join them. The two will engage in a duel for supremacy, with the winner returning to the game.
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Man vs. Machine: Jeopardy-Style
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Games, Reality, Specials, Syndication, Video,
IBM is taking computer gaming to an epic level.
Monday marked the debut of the supercomputer Watson, a machine so smart it’s capable of playing a game of Jeopardy . . . and maybe, winning it. The three-day game pits the computer against the show’s two greatest champions, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, and at the end of Round 1 Watson is tied for first place.
Watson ruled categories like “Beatles People” and “Literary Characters APB,” though it struggled and offered wrong answers to other categories, including “Name the Decade.”
Still, the computer’s prowess was such that at the end of the episode, it’s tied with Rutter with $5,000 in the Jeopardy game bank . . . and champion Ken Jennings trails behind the machine with only $2,000 in the till. Check out the video above to get a look at Watson in action.
Read More | E! Online
VIDEO: Christina Aguilera’s Grammy Fall
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Performances, Videos, Pop,
We don’t know Christina Aguilera personally, but we still think it’s safe to say the year isn’t shaping up the way she intended.
Her personal life is a little messy, with the divorce and all, and now her public life is becoming a tragedy of errors. The songstress bravely performed at the Grammy awards, because the show must go on despite her well-watched Super Bowl flub . . . but now, Aguilera probably wishes she’d stayed home.
The performer managed to belt her way through “Ain’t No Way,” a tribute to Grammy winner Aretha Franklin, without a hitch -- but following the performance, there was trouble. After Christina Aguilera executed her song, she moved a little too aggressively downstage . . . and fell down. Watch the video above to see her sad-but-funny stage spill.
Read More | The Huffington Post
VIDEO: Katy Perry Uses Wedding Footage for Grammy Performance
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Artist News, Awards, Performances, Videos, Pop,
Katy Perry pulled out all the stops for her Grammy performance Sunday night. While hubby Russell Brand looked on from the audience, the pop star belted out a sweet version of her song “Not Like the Movies.” As she crooned prettily while suspended from a massive length of fabric, her wedding video was projected onto the impressive backdrop.
Perry wed Brand on October 23 in a private ceremony in India, and this is the first chance fans have had to see the big event. In the brief video, you can see the couple’s wedding kiss.
After the sweet performance was over, Perry jumped down from her swing to energetically deliver her banner hit “Teenage Dream.”
Read More | CNN
Sonos Controller for Android brings voice search to Sonos
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Google, Home Entertainment, Music,
Sonos' stable of wireless music offerings allow listeners to have a stereo system that encompasses every room in their home, and to control the whole system simply and wirelessly. Sonos makes a hardware remote control for the system and apps for iOS devices, and today the company announced that Sonos owners can now also use their Android devices to control their music.
The Sonos Controller for Android is a free app that can access and play all the music available through the Sonos universe, which includes everything from computer-based media libraries to services like Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio, Pandora, and Napster.
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VIDEO: X-Men First Class Trailer Released
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: 20th Century Fox, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Sequels, Trailers, Upcoming Releases, Videos,
The dramatic trailer for X-Men: First Class is here, and it’s awesome.
The attention-getting clip focuses on the young Professor X (James McAvoy) and the young Magneto (Michael Fassbender). Other familiar X-Men present in the trailer include Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult).
Read More | JoBlo
American Idol 10: Hollywood, Round 1
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Music, Prime Time, Reality, FOX, American Idol, Features, Video,
Ryan Seacrest promised that this year’s Hollywood Week will be twice as hard . . . because this year, American Idol has double the usual amount of contestants. It felt more like triple the amount through the long audition rounds, but it’s finally time to start whittling them down.
Maybe the new panel will begin to develop its killer instinct as the week progresses.
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