Researchers at IBM Benchmark cites an increase of online sales from 2010 by 33% this Cyber Monday. As mentioned earlier in this blog, on the rise of Black Friday sales on cellular phones, Cyber Monday was no different. The report also found that about 8% of sales were made on a mobile device as compared to 2.25% in the same period last year. Over 80 percent of retailers said that they were…
As if humans haven’t gotten enough of being proverbially slapped by intelligent robots, computer manufacturer and research company IBM has created a microchip that mimics the brain functions of humans. You read that correctly. According to IBM, “inside the (human) brain, information is processed in parallel, and computation and memory are entwined.” The IBM researchers have built and tested two demonstration chips that store and process information in a way that mimics a natural…
