“It’s the third annual Stupid Hackathon, a one-day event in which “participants conceptualize and create projects that have no value whatsoever”.”
Read: Mansplain it to Me: inside the Stupid Hackathon for extremely stupid ideas
“Say hello to a brand new Twitter. The company is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week, BuzzFeed News has learned.”
Read: Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week
“Just over a year after Michael Brown’s death became a focal point for a national debate about policing and race, Ferguson and nearby St. Louis suburbs have returned to what looks, from the outside, like a kind of normalcy.”
Read: In the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis cops embrace crime-predicting software
“Google has taken a brilliant and unexpected step toward building an AI with more humanlike intuition, developing a computer capable of beating even expert human players at the fiendishly complicated board game Go.”
Read: A Google DeepMind Algorithm Uses Deep Learning and More to Master the Game of Go
“Google wants to teach you deep learning — if you’re ready that is. The tech giant has launched a free course explaining the machine learning technique that underpins so many of its services.”
Read: Google just published a free, three-month course on deep learning
“Google is aggressively trying to make smartphones more responsive to human needs, and it looks like Apple is joining the push. Reuters reports that Apple has posted dozens of job listings for artificial intelligence experts and recruited applicants from PhD programs.”
Read: Apple’s ramping up its hiring of machine learning experts
“Let’s face it: coming up with a grade-A tweet isn’t easy. That’s why some people just copy good tweets from other people and act like they came up with the 140-character witticism on their own. This has been going on since the beginning of Twitter.”
The next time you come back from overseas and flash your American passport at Washington, DC’s Dulles airport, customs officers might take a picture of you and use facial recognition technology to figure out if you really are who you say you are.
Read: US Customs Quietly Launches Facial Recognition Experiment at DC Airport
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