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Headline: Google’s Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results. Author: Artificial Intelligence
Google’s Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results
Deep learning is changing how Google's search engine works. But its new-found efficiency takes a lot of painstaking human work behind the scenes.
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Headline: Meet John Knoll, the Creative Genius Who Brought Rogue One to Life. Author: Star Wars
Meet John Knoll, the Creative Genius Who Brought Rogue One to Life
From coinventing Photoshop to reinventing movie f/x, ILM's Knoll is always a few parsecs ahead of the pack. Now he's jumping in to hyperspace with...
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Headline: 21 Amazing Gifts Under $25. Author: Gift Guide
21 Amazing Gifts Under $25
Hey, cheapskate! We just saved your Christmas.
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Headline: Crafty Ants Form Conga Lines to Drag Millipedes to Doom. Author: Animal Science
Crafty Ants Form Conga Lines to Drag Millipedes to Doom
As if you needed another reason to declare ants the most legit insects on Earth, take a look at this video.
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Headline: The Subtle Ways Your Digital Assistant Might Manipulate You. Author: WIRED Opinion
The Subtle Ways Your Digital Assistant Might Manipulate You
Opinion: Sure, smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home can learn your preferences. But as they learn to serve us, the more power they'll...
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Headline: Photos of Brooklyn Before and After the Hipsters. Author: WIRED Classic
Photos of Brooklyn Before and After the Hipsters
A look at what happens to a city when "artisanal donuts" move in.
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Headline: Trump’s Health Czar Tom Price is a One-Man Death Panel for Obamacare. Author: National Affairs
Trump’s Health Czar Tom Price is a One-Man Death Panel for Obamacare
Pending Senate confirmation, Tom Price will play a central role in the new administration’s plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
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Headline: What’s Up With That: Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much?. Author: What's Up With That
What’s Up With That: Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much?
What are we to make of the strange gravitational pull that empty boxes have on cats?
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Headline: Ross Ulbricht’s Lawyers Say They’ve Found Another Corrupt Agent in Silk Road Case. Author: Security
Ross Ulbricht’s Lawyers Say They’ve Found Another Corrupt Agent in Silk Road Case
The defense team demands more information about a mysterious figure known as "alpacino."
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Headline: Artificial Intelligence Could Dig Up Cures Buried Online. Author: medicine
Artificial Intelligence Could Dig Up Cures Buried Online
Artificial intelligence could be a solution to science overload: machine learning assistants to read incoming papers, distill their information, and highlight relevant findings.
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Headline: Magnets Aren’t Miracles, But Solar Flares Burst With Magic. Author: physics
Magnets Aren’t Miracles, But Solar Flares Burst With Magic
A new paper shows how large magnetic fields burst to release massive amounts of energy.
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Headline: Google’s AI Reads Retinas to Prevent Blindness in Diabetics. Author: Artificial Intelligence
Google’s AI Reads Retinas to Prevent Blindness in Diabetics
Artificial brains built by Google can recognize cats in photos. Now they're gaining a more serious kind of sight to help humans.
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Headline: Review: Asus ZenBook 3. Author: product review
Review: Asus ZenBook 3
This 12.5-inch ultrabook has limited connectivity and sells for a stratospheric $1,599.
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Headline: Behind the Scenes With the Best Drummers in the World. Author: Photo Gallery
Behind the Scenes With the Best Drummers in the World
To drum well, you gotta drum loud. Earplugs are optional.
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Headline: Acura’s Concept Cockpit Envisions the Age of Autonomy. Author: Augmented Reality
Acura’s Concept Cockpit Envisions the Age of Autonomy
The "Precision Cockpit" is all about communication with the human.
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Headline: Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI. Author: Artificial Intelligence
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
Artificial intelligence is not only reshaping the technology these tech giants use but how they organize and operate their businesses.
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Headline: Want to Be an Ethical Shopper? Get DoneGood’s Chrome Extension. Author: UX Design
Want to Be an Ethical Shopper? Get DoneGood’s Chrome Extension
For once, a pop-up window that does some good.
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Headline: SF’s Transit Hack Could’ve Been Way Worse—And Cities Must Prepare. Author: Infrastructure
SF’s Transit Hack Could’ve Been Way Worse—And Cities Must Prepare
But many transit systems can barely keep trains running, let alone pay for security upgrades.
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Headline: Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself. Author: Code
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
Instead of just supporting her husband’s career, Margaret Hamilton invented the modern concept of software.
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Headline: Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire. Author: Robert McMillan
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
On a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge...
