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Last night saw the final round of competition between Watson, the 'Jeopardy'-playing supercomputer, and the two contestants selected to represent all mankind. Our delegates performed admirably, but, at the end of the day, that bundle of neurons we call the human brain simply couldn't stand up to that room full of servers and the avatar with 42 "thought threads" (a nod to the greatest book ever ...

O'Brien shakes his head at the memory. "Aaron's saying, 'You're up to 250,000' or something, and I would say, 'I don't know what that means.' " It meant that O'Brien was setting the single-day record for gathering followers on Twitter. Just as quickly, O'Brien's team began to hear that NBC was far from happy. "The network isn't crazy about you tweeting. They're not sure that's cool," O'Brien ...

Whether inspired by the real iPhone ads, or Conan O'Brien's hysterical parody (in which the iPhone is reported to also function as a cheese grater, sideburns and many other things ... ), a slew of do-it-yourself iPhone ads have hit the Internet in feverish anticipation of the June 29 release. There's the hilarious biPhone ad (above), this artsy gem uncovered today by our friends at GeekSugar ...

As we approach the June 29 mega-launch of the iPhone, Apple is hyping the crap out of itself with new TV ads showing off all of the handset's impressive functionality. In honor of the new ads, we present this classic Conan O'Brien spoof showing that the iPhone is much more versatile than Apple is letting on. You name it, the iPhone does it -- even sideburns. Related Links: iPhones Hitting ...