PC Magazine July 2017
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you! PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you!
PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
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LAST WORD<br />
JOHN C. DVORAK<br />
Was anyone surprised that Google’s<br />
AlphaGo program, developed as part<br />
of its DeepMind operation, defeated<br />
the world’s best go player? IBM’s Deep Blue beat<br />
Garry Kasparov, and Watson prevailed on<br />
Jeopardy! It’s time we stopped pitting computers<br />
against people; there’s no point.<br />
Forget Man<br />
vs. Machine:<br />
It’s Time for<br />
Computer<br />
vs.<br />
Computer<br />
It’s great that one computer can house the entire<br />
Library of Congress. But until an artificial<br />
intelligence system can synthesize an actual new<br />
idea from the knowledge contained in those books,<br />
these machines are still nothing more than<br />
grandiose, soulless adding machines.<br />
Now that doesn’t mean the game-playing<br />
machines can’t provide interesting entertainment,<br />
especially if you rethink playing the games and add<br />
some new twists. We already have computer<br />
programs that can play bridge, for example. Step it<br />
up by having them face off against bridge<br />
superfans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. This<br />
twosome would love to take on this challenge and<br />
might even finance the whole thing. Bridge-playing<br />
computers win a lot of championships and would<br />
probably beat Gates and Buffett. Let’s find out.<br />
Computer versus man chess matches go back to<br />
the 1950s. It has improved the programs over<br />
time, but how about someone laying down a cool<br />
$1 million and having computers play against<br />
computers? Anyone who likes chess would love to<br />
see how new strategies might evolve.
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