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Show watsons capability against two of the best all time players of jeopardy. >> watson, what is jericho? >> correct. watson? >> who is agatha christie. >> we developed a technology called deep qa and one of the things it tries to do is take language, parce it, understand, you know, what is going on in this question. in the end the technology has to come up with the top, right answer in the top position and have an estimation how confident is it that answer is correct? that is a tough, challengi...

President of being naive, while having a policy that supports this -- >> you know the old beach boys song "bomb iran." >> president obama is getting the job done. he accelerated a major top secret computer attack against iran. in "the new york times," its reported it has succeeded. irans ability to make a nuclear bomb has been set back years. did you hear that righties? irans nuclear ambitions have been set back years under this president and his leadership. it also you would hinged on a top sec...

Will get their homes back. chase says that it already refunded any overcharges to this man but the couple disputes that. >> and is there any indication how this happened? >> reporter: well, its complicated. the initial problem appeared to be in the computer system. apparently they had to manually input the fact that these families were entitled to a 6% rate and then when many of them have adjustable rate mortgages. when they adjusted it would knock off the 6%. clearly, the problem goes beyond th...

Cyberwar, is it not that worked against the iranis and slowed their program around. >> this is the most sophisticated cyberweapon every deployed. it was worked on jointly by the united states and israel. it was a computer virus inserted into the iranian machines and alternately sped up and slowed down the machines until they broke, destroying about, according to the story, 1,000 iranian centrifuges, about a fifth of what they been using to enrich uranium. and also sent a false signal to the iran...

>> hi, shannon this, comes down to the device thats spin really quickly in order to enrich uranium. the "new york times" is saying israel and the united states developed this virus made them spin so quickly they zried themselves. and here is the clever part. while spinning quickly they were telling the computer system and engineers there in iran that everything was just fine. israel has always been very quiet about its own nuclear facility in the desert however its widely believed they somehow a...

Computer system. >> thats amazing. thats a great spacesaver. >> absolutely. those who dont have a lot of space and need something thats big, this is something they want. it looks good. >> it does. thats a scanner, right? >> this is the scanner. they say its one of the smallest scanners in the world. you have paper and you need to get it to your computer to your office, this is what you want. >> thats a fantastic idea. you can stick that in your bag. >> zboost. >> if youre in your places in your ...

-p. jon: breaking news as hundreds of thousands of americans take to the air. harris is on this story. >> reporter: most people like to sign on the computer and get their boarding pass. spirit airlines computer is down. it says please stand by. no matter what part of the website you try to access. the airline a few minutes ago has said spirit airlines will now manually check passengers in until this problem is resolved. that means if you are flying this ultralow cost carrier, the leading one in ...

Its one of the largest breaches in our militarys history and it was kept a secret for the past two years. the department of defense now admits that a foreign agency broke into our governments secure computer system in 2008. the agency which is not being named used, apparently, a standard flash drive. that drive had a virus which allowed information from classified computers to be downloaded. the defense department is not commenting on what, if any, info was leaked. absentee ballots will determin...

Group of volunteers from assessing information to put it up on the system to maintain computer system, encryption. i think the investigation is going to follow a very set process. theyre going to look at his friend and communications with the friends. then look for any links between his friends and the wikileaks community. >> mike, we know that is where the investigation is. you hit it on the head. so what steps can be taken to correct this and prevent it from happening again? >> again, the prob...

Held. it attaches in the existing stub d stud-out. you put teflon tape on and this screws on. it has four different jets. if you need a good massage, deep tissue, this thing will do it for you. >> it looks great, not expensive. it can add to a big house or a small apartment. people have a hard time choosing the right color of paint. >> someone said, how do i choose the right color. im so confused. this is called a color helper. i am putting one in my tool box. it costs about $180. it gives you a...