“Google is constantly tweaking its search results page to include more information typically found deep within websites, and now its search engine will surface college and university data starting today.”
Read: Google wants to educate students about universities right from search results
“Next week, 2K Games and Hangar 13 are set to release Mafia III, an open-world action game set in a fictionalized version of 1968 New Orleans called New Bordeaux. It follows Lincoln Clay, a biracial Vietnam veteran who was betrayed by the Italian Mafia, and now seeks revenge.”
Read: How ‘Mafia III’ Intends to Make Players Confront Racism
“Artificial intelligence has captured the rhythm of science fiction. For example, the script of a new science fiction short is the creation of a bot. Although the software provides the order of the word choices, the source material is human.”
“Todd W. Schneider, a developer at Genius, took a deep dive into Simpsons data using scripts pulled from Simpsons World. From there, he wrote code that organizes dialogue by character and then ranks each character by number of words spoken.”
“just emailed to an empty test account that has never interacted with or followed anyone”
“Artificial intelligence has already been used to create a short film, snippets of angst-ridden poetry, and even the odd avant-garde melody. But the YouTube video above might just be the first pop song written by AI — and it’s almost certainly (probably) a dire warning for humanity.”
Read: This AI-written pop song is almost certainly a dire warning for humanity
“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