An AI Learning How To Play ‘Galaga’ Is Way Better Than You’ll Ever Be At ‘Galaga’
The cool thing about LearnFun and PlayFun, the AI at work here, is that they only need to learn how to do frame-perfect dodges once and then they can do them every time.

March 2, 2018 at 06:49AM
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Riding Along With a Night Stringer, Chasing Car Crashes for Local News
Adam is what’s known in local news as a stringer: the photographers and videographers that cruise the city documenting accidents, crimes, disasters of all sizes in the hopes of selling their footage to media outlets faster than their competitors.

March 1, 2018 at 08:24PM
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The Fascinating History Of Halycon, A Video Game Console You’ve Never Heard Of That Died Before It Could Live
Hot off the success of “Dragon’s Lair” Rick Dyer wanted to push the envelope for home video game consoles. His answer was Halcyon, a voice-controlled behemoth that was as forward-thinking as it was impractical for the time.

March 1, 2018 at 04:52PM
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This Haptic Glove Takes VR To A Whole New Level
We’re one step closer to living inside computers.

March 1, 2018 at 02:04PM
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Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session
New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women while they’re still in school, during recruiting sessions.

March 1, 2018 at 02:04PM
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How a secretive, unknown smartphone app became the center of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Turkey’s government instituted a brutal crackdown, in which more 50,000 people were arrested and more than twice that many removed from their jobs in state.

March 1, 2018 at 02:04PM
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How Tech Companies Became a Political Force
The generational shift that made tech companies a cultural and political force.

March 1, 2018 at 06:30AM
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Google Clips review
A couple of things to know about Google Clips: First, it is absolutely, unequivocally not a life-logging camera. Sure, it may be called Clips and it does, in fact, have a clip on the back. But do not clip it to your clothing.

March 1, 2018 at 05:48AM
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Google gets 2.4M requests from Europeans to be ‘forgotten’
Most of the requests came from regular Joes wanting sensitive information — like their home address or personal photos or videos — removed from any Google search results, the company said in its annual transparency report released on Tuesday.

February 28, 2018 at 07:02PM
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Google’s Autocomplete Team Answers Autocomplete Questions About Autocomplete
Vice president of search engineering Ben Gomes and product manager Chris Haire explain why autocomplete is sometimes racist and walk through what Google can and can’t search.

February 28, 2018 at 04:43PM
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