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The article reports that IBM's Watson, an extensive artificial intelligence system is assisting the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to uncover information from social media regarding Wimbledon 2016.

The article discusses the online demonstration offered by computer hardware company International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation that uses the Watson cognitive computing system.

The article reports that the computer services company International Business Machines(IBM) Corp. has signed an agreement with the medical device manufacturer Medtronic PLC and sportswear company Under Armour Inc. for IBM's Watson computer system. The article further mentions that Medtronic will use the system to make devices to warn diabetics of a possible fall in their insulin to critical levels. Further, Under Armour is said to use Watson to help people to monitor their weight-loss programs.

The article offers brief information on several application programming interfaces (APIs) from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) which have been added to its Watson artificial intelligence system including the Visual Insights, the Text to Speech and the Dialogue.

The article reports that computer services company International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. introduces its Watson-based data analysis services to Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in partnership with Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates development company Mubadala. Topics discussed include the use of Watson in the health care industry, early adopters of the service, and the commercialization of Watson.

Photographs of Watson apps of IBM Corp., which is changing the industry from healthcare, travel to entertainment and oil and gas are presented.

The article reports that computing services provider AlchemyAPI Inc. has been acquired by the American computer services company International Business Machines Corp. to broaden its portfolio of Watson-branded cognitive computing services. AlchemyAPI offers a text-mining service and its services can recognize discrete objects within images.

The article reports that mobile carrier SoftBank Corp. launched a talking household robot called Pepper in 2014 and is now collaborating with Watson, International Business Machines Corp.'s artificial intelligence program. SoftBank is introducing Watson in Japan and wants to use it in the fields of education, banking, retail and medicine.

The article reports on the decision of technology firm International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to enable software vendors to access its Watson supercomputer in an effort to spur the growth of applications that capitalize the artificial intelligence capabilities of the system. It says that the company is ready to share its machine learning technology worldwide. It adds that IBM also plans to partner with venture capitalists to locate new businesses that desire to develop software on Watson.