Tag: Personal Investing Ideas & Strategies
California deploys AI to detect wildfires before they start spreading
AI and climate change represent two ways humans may ravage life as we know it on Earth, but the former can also help with the consequences of the latter. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) revealed a new program today that uses AI to detect wildfires.…
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X hopes ‘sensitivity settings’ will bring back advertisers
X is giving advertisers new ways to have some control over what type of content can appear near their ads. The company formerly known as Twitter introduced new “sensitivity settings” that allow advertisers to choose between different types of content filtering for their ads. The new controls arrive as X…
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Why humans can’t use natural language processing to speak with the animals
We’ve been wondering what goes on inside the minds of animals since antiquity. Dr. Doolittle’s talent was far from novel when it was first published in 1920; Greco-Roman literature is lousy with speaking animals, writers in Zhanguo-era China routinely ascribed language to certain animal species and they’re also prevalent in…
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Hitting the Books: The dangerous real-world consequences of our online attention economy
If reality television has taught us anything, it’s there’s not much people won’t do if offered enough money and attention. Sometimes, even just the latter. Unfortunately for the future prospects of our civilization, modern social media has focused upon those same character foibles and optimized them at a global scale,…
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Hitting the Books: Amazon’s unique ‘threat’ to digital commerce
When it comes to online merchandizing, nobody is bigger than Amazon. The same can be said for Walmart’s utter domination of physical retail. But for a brief time in 2016, the two behemoths sought to get all up in each other’s lanes. The resulting multi-year fracas would shake the world…
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Researchers give robots roly-polies for hands
The human hand is a marvel of evolutionary development, offering 27 degrees of freedom and unrivaled touch sensitivity. But it’s the same aspects that make our hands so, well, handy, that also make them an absolute nightmare to recreate robotically. That’s why one team of researchers has abandoned human-derived gripper…
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