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• Computers compete as clever conversationalists
I wish I was as good at conversation as Elbot," the Hamburg, Germany-based consultant joked after receiving the prize. The contest draws on the ideas of British mathematician Alan Turing, who came up with a subjective but simple rule for determining ...
• Global stocks soar after Wall Street’s surge
In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares was up 255.08 points, or 6.0 percent, at 4,511.98, despite news that inflation in Britain is running at a 16-year high. Germany’s DAX was up 257.46, or 5.1 percent, at 5,319.91 even though a group of ...
• Stocks fluctuate as profit-taking sets in
Japan’s Nikkei index, catching up from the country’s market holiday Monday, jumped 14.15 percent — the largest increase ever. In Europe, Britain’s FTSE 100 jumped 2.04 percent, Germany’s DAX index rose 2.02 percent, and France’s CAC-40 ...
• Central Bankers Man the Battle Stations
For example, Germany set aside 500 billion in bank guarantee funds for the recapitalization of banks in distress and potential losses from loans. France said it will guarantee 320 billion of bank debt and set up a fund allowed to spend up to 32,040 ...
• German goes on trial for Holocaust denial
POTSDAM, Germany - A founder member of a left-wing terrorist group turned neo-Nazi went on trial in Germany Wednesday accused of publishing documents on the Internet denying the Holocaust. Horst Mahler, a founding member of the Red Army Faction in ...