November 2015

Alexander Siddig at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009

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Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Mohammed Abderrahman Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi, this is his full birth name, was born on November 21, 1965 in Sudan. His mother is the sister of actor Malcolm McDowell, his father is the brother of Sudanese politician Sadiq al-Mahdi. Alexander Siddig is famous especially for playing Doctor Julian Bashir in the TV show “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”. Lately he’s getting more fame playing Prince Doran Martell in the TV show “Game of Thrones”.

Hannah Egan, product strategy specialist, IBM Commerce, shows the new IBM Watson Trend App (John Mottern/Feature Photo Service for IBM)

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IBM launched its free Watson Trend mobile application, an implementation of its system of cognitive computing Watson that aims to understand what are the trendy gifts for the holiday season. At least for now it’s only available for iOS, perhaps an experiment that is part of the collaboration with Apple in various uses of Watson, and therefore can be downloaded from the Apple Store.

Example that shows how the Google app understands complex questions (Image courtesy Google. All rights reserved)

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Google has released a new search mobile application, already known as Google Search, in the version for Android and iOS. Now it offers the ability to answer complex questions, claiming to have made a significant step forward compared to previous capacity to interpre users’ requests. Now the app really understands the meaning of what the user is asking (for now only in English).

Exiled from Earth by Ben Bova (Italian edition)

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The novel “Exiled from Earth” by Ben Bova was published for the first time in 1971. It’s the first book of the Exiles trilogy.

The world government has taken the difficult decision to exile the most important scientists of the Earth from the planet. Their work is considered too dangerous for humanity so it was decided to send them to a space station where they cann’t interfere with society.

Lou Christopher is a computer scientist who’s working on a project of genetic engineering in which the use of computers is essential. Included in the list of scientists to be exiled, he manages to escape arrest and tries to find support in order to avoid his fate ending up involved in various political intrigues.