“Intel is building an ambitious new office building in Israel’s Petah Tikva, which will house 2,500 employees and serve as a showcase for the chipmaker’s latest IoT technologies.”
Read: Intel’s office of the future is a micromanaging monster
“The first big graduation I remember was for my bachelor’s degree. My mom was there, and she had her Polaroid camera. She took 1,000 pictures that day—most of them blurry. I remember it well because we have these big picture books at home.”
“An adult webcam site claims to be the first ever to use facial recognition technology to help users find “sex doppelgängers” of people they know. Individuals can upload photographs of anyone’s face — it could be a stranger, a celebrity, or an acquaintance — and MegaCams.”
Read: Cam girl site uses facial recognition to match users’ photographs to performers
“Google’s self-driving cars might yield the road to emergency vehicles, like police cars, automatically. A new U.S. patent shows sensors inside the car recognizing police lights, red and blue, and moving to the side of the road before the emergency vehicle passes.”
Read: Google’s car will automatically pull you over for the police
“One day recently, we visited Amazon’s website in search of the best deal on Loctite super glue, the essential home repair tool for fixing everything from broken eyeglass frames to shattered ceramics.”
Read: Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t.
“Earlier this week, after drinks with co-workers near The Verge’s New York office, I headed down into the subway for my commute home. The M train, like most New York subways, is often delayed.”
“This week, we meet for breakfast to talk through our conflicting feelings about the new film “When the Bough Breaks,” the No. 2 movie in America. Jenna loved it; Wesley not so much. We also decode the inherent racism of the sharing economy.”
“Apple is having trouble removing porn from iMessage’s new GIF search feature. Overnight, Deadspin noticed a highly sexual My Little Pony GIF appearing in searches for the word “butt,” but the problem goes well beyond that.”
“How will artificial intelligence systems change the way we live? This is a tough question: on one hand, AI tools are producing compelling advances in complex tasks, with dramatic improvements in energy consumption, audio processing, and leukemia detection.”
“If you finish watching a movie and let the ending credits scroll for a while, you’ll come across the actors who are merely identified as descriptors — “bridesmaid #1,” “man in donkey suit,” or “hot dog vendor.”
Read: Male film actors get jobs like “doctor” and “cop.” Women get “receptionist” and “party girl.”