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Machine intelligence will catch up with that of humans and begin to overtake it in the next two decades, a visionary scientist has predicted.
IBM has introduced a three-dimensional video game that puts a businessperson in a virtual office with the task of constructing a more efficient company.
International law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques has committed to a "virtual future" after it recovered the AU$300,000 spent on a virtualisation project three months before rollout was complete.
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With the introduction of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, sites and software that depend on ActiveX may falter under Microsoft's new security regime.
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