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well to do young people. she said i was so wrong. brown: at a very small and narrow level. warner: a ve narrow level of society. she acknowledged she was dead wrong. brown: you ve looked at how social media has developed in egypt. as it s developed, who does it reach? who has it been reaching? how did that change even in the last few weeks. it s important to note that 20% of the population in egypt has access to the internet which is a slim number if you think about it. how many of those have access to facebook? how many of them are prepared to use it for a political means? now given the fact that these numbers are small, it shows that there was an early onset. there wa sort of an early phase whereby people came together and used the internet and used facebook, used these social networking sites to come together and coalesce these groups. because social networking brings together communities of friends, they can come out and protest as communities which is sort of a d
our science correspondent took the challenge. i m miles o brien. i just played jeopardy against a very smart computer. it was great for the computer. i ll tell you about artificial intelligence and the pursuit of language understanding. for machines. ifill: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: breathe in. breathe out. as volatile as markets have been lately having the security of a strong financial partner certainly lets you breathe easier. for more than 140 years, pacific life has helped millions of americans build a secure financial future. wouldn t it be nice to take a deep breath and relax? your financial professional can tell you about pacific life, the power to help you succeed. you can t manufacture pride. but pride builds great cars. and you llindt in the people at toyota. all across america. chevron. we may have more in common than you think. and by bnsf railway. and by the bill and melinda gates
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well, if you were watching, you know that things got loud last night in los angeles at the grammys. the music industry handed out its annual awards to a pretty diverse list of stars. some you ve heard of, some you may not have. the bigger winners were lady ant at the be e bell um. here are some of the other highlights. esperanza spaulding won for the best new artist. a bright new star in the jazz world. she beat out the moneymaking mb machine justin bieber. mick jagger took the grammy stage for the first time as a performer. he was doing a tribute to the late soul star solomon burg. why baby why is right. one of the oddest sights.