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Yahoo’s open_nsfw neural network scores images on a scale of to on their suitability for use in the workplace. So what happens if you flip the network around and use it to generate new images?

October 23, 2016 at 08:37AM
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How Facial Recognition Software Is Changing the Porn Industry
It’s a technological leap and an ethical nightmare.

October 22, 2016 at 07:26AM
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AI Can Recreate TV Show Characters, Giving Avatars Their Own Dialogue And Action
In the future, there will be no actors.

October 21, 2016 at 03:23PM
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Pizza, the unsung agent of the robot revolution
An inside look at the robots taking over Amazon, DHL, Ocado, Mercedes… and Domino’s?

October 21, 2016 at 01:47PM
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Presidential debates: A computer used sentiment analysis to watch the debates, and it thinks Clinton is happy and Trump is angry and quite sad.
We’ve got opinions. Our brains, after all, are not computers. But what if computers could watch the debates?

October 21, 2016 at 11:34AM
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What happens when computers watch Hillary and Donald debate
Four graduate students from Columbia University’s Data Science Institute built an application called Debate in (E)motion that ‘watches’ the debate, captures a video frame every five seconds and spits out a score on how confident it was that it recognizes a set of emotions.

October 21, 2016 at 09:37AM
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Debate over: IBM confirms that Macs are $535 less expensive than PCs
In 2015, IBM let their employees decide – Windows or Mac. And the company found that not only do PCs drive twice the amount of support calls, they’re also three times more expensive — depending on the model, IBM is saving anywhere from $273 – $543 per Mac compared to a PC, over a four-year lifespan.

October 21, 2016 at 09:37AM
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This Guy’s Homemade ‘Automatic Sunglasses’ Are The Coolest Lame Thing
We’re making fun of him now, but we bet Kanye will be wearing these by the end of next week.

October 21, 2016 at 09:24AM
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Apple Shelves Project Titan, the Car That Never Was
Why did the Apple brand’s proven aptitude for making shiny and coveted machines fail to translate to automobiles, perhaps the shiniest and most coveted of all consumer products?

October 21, 2016 at 07:42AM
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The Google phone is almost as good as the iPhone
Picking between the Pixel and iPhone is hard, which is a huge achievement for Google’s first try.

October 20, 2016 at 04:46PM
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