“The crowdsourced database that was use to seed locations to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go came from early augmented reality games that were played by overwhelmingly affluent (and thus, disproportionately white) people, who, in an increasingly racially segregated America, are less and less likely to v”
“A machine mapped the most frequently used emotional trajectories in fiction, and compared them with the ones readers like best.”
“A machine mapped the most frequently used emotional trajectories in fiction, and compared them with the ones readers like best.”
“Apple engineer Jordyn Castor has never been one for limitations. She was born 15 weeks early, weighing just under two pounds. Her grandfather could hold her in the palm of his hand, and could even slide his wedding ring along her arm and over her shoulder.”
Read: This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22
“Apple engineer Jordyn Castor has never been one for limitations. She was born 15 weeks early, weighing just under two pounds. Her grandfather could hold her in the palm of his hand, and could even slide his wedding ring along her arm and over her shoulder.”
Read: This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22
“Riri Williams is 15 years old. She’s black. She wears her hair naturally. She’s a genius, enrolling at MIT. And when the dust settles after Civil War II, Marvel’s latest crossover comic book event, Riri Williams will be Iron Man.”
Read: Marvel’s new Iron Man will be a 15-year-old black girl
“Earlier this year, The Village Voice’s business department got a bright idea: why not put Bluetooth beacons on their red distribution boxes to keep tabs on how they’re doing? So they called up Gimbal, a company that specialized in such beaco”
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“Satya Nadella bounded into the conference room, eager to talk about intelligence. I was at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA, and the company’s CEO was touting the company’s progress in building more intelligent apps and services.”
“Who killed Mrs. White? It wasn’t Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room—it was the marketing team over at Hasbro HQ. Yes, after almost 70 years of planning, committing, and helping to foil gruesome murders in Clue’s Tudor Mansion, original character Mrs.”
Read: ‘Clue’ Makers Have Killed Off Mrs. White, Replaced Her With Dr. Orchid
“It’s a good time to be a machine learning startup. Two weeks after Twitter bought London-based Magic Pony, Google has purchased French firm Moodstocks. The acquisition was made for an unknown sum, and seems primarily a grab for talent.”
Read: Google buys machine vision startup focusing on ‘instant object recognition’