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Yesterday, we reported that a Go-playing computer program, AlphaGo, grabbed the first win against the best Go player in the world, Lee Sedol and it was the first time that a system could do such feat in human history. Today, it got the second win again this time after 211 moves. Both players played two full hours of regulation time, going into by?-yomi overtime. And just for your information, AlphaGo actually learns from experience. 

If you've never heard of Google DeepMind, then welcome to the right place to get yourself educated. DeepMind is an artifical intelligence designed by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman in London during the year 2010, its purpose it to solve intelligence and use it to make the world a better place and was acquired by Google in 2014.

And just yesterday, during its first game at the Google DeepMind Challenge match, the system has defeated the world's best Go player, Lee Sedol after 186 moves. This is the first time in history that a computer program has bested a top-ranked human Go player on a full 19x19 board with no handicap.

Google Malaysia and TNS Research recently got together to reveal the answer to the question, "Who watches YouTube in Malaysia?". Surprisingly enough, research reveals that it isn't just all our kids watching chocolate surprise egg videos. Instead, the answer turns out to be the millenials of Malaysia and many of our senior citizens (about half to be exact). In fact this number is set to grow as high speed mobile Internet and mobile devices become more accessible (cheaper).