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This Ridiculous Grill Proves We Don’t Need AI for Everything

The list of things a grill needs to be able to do is pretty short: cook food and make anyone standing next to it look sufficiently outdoorsy. We never gave much thought to the things a grill doesn’t need to be able to do — but then we heard about spice manufacturer McCormick’s

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New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm First to Work Without Brain Implant

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A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton For Stealing Its AI Data

Intellectual Dishonesty A Lithuanian company called Planner 5D is suing both Facebook and Princeton University for copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation. Princeton computer scientists scraped over 45,000 files, mostly 3D models of various objects, from Planner 5D’s software, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday. They then repackaged them as a dataset for computer

Clearing The Record

Alan Turing Finally Got His New York Times Obituary

Retroactive Alan Turing, who during World War II helped the Allies break Nazi codes and later came to be regarded as a pioneer in computing and artificial intelligence, finally got a proper sendoff in the form of a New York Times obituary on Wednesday. In spite of his scientific developments and contributions to the war, Turing

Passing The Buck

Report: 2020 Candidates Are Going to Get Owned by Deepfakes

2020 Vision The technology to create believable deepfakes — computer-generated media depicting real people doing or saying things that never occurred — is already here and widely accessible. And yet, as America moves towards its 2020 presidential election, Axios reports that not a single candidate can point to measures they’ve taken to prevent the spread

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Amazon Will Give You a $25 Gift Card to 3D Scan Your Entire Body

Body Scans Amazon wants to buy your bikini pictures, and it’s willing to give you $25 in store credit for the trouble. At least, that’s according to an Amazon program that a Mashable employee came across in the form of a targeted ad saying the tech giant is recruiting people to sign up for a

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Security Company to Install Gun-Detecting AI in Mosques Worldwide

Security Upgrade In March, a gunman attacked the Al-Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51 worshippers in the process. Now, the Qatar-based company Al-Ameri International Trading has teamed up with several Islamic charities and foundations to improve mosque security by financing the installation of an AI-powered gun detection system at the New Zealand mosque and others

Accessible Gaming

Microsoft Patented an Xbox Controller With a Braille Display

E For Everyone A new Microsoft patent shows how the company might make its Xbox console more accessible to visually-impaired people. The patent describes a new accessory for Xbox controllers that functions like a Braille touchscreen — it’d give gamers a live feed of on-screen text and chat, according to LetsGoDigital. Live Chat For people with the

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Scaling Product Through Design: Numina’s Path Through the URBAN-X Accelerator Program

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French author and aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, once said, “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” For many startups, design is the “plan” required to achieve a goal, develop practical solutions, and bring new products to life. In today’s startup world, very seldom do companies succeed at first endeavor. Version 1.0 becomes 2.0,

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To Prevent the Apocalypse, MIT Says to Study “Machine Behaviour”

Machine Behaviour Computer scientists and engineers shouldn’t be the only people shaping the future of artificial intelligence, according to a group led by researchers from MIT’s Media Lab. “We’re seeing the rise of machines with agency, machines that are actors making decisions and taking actions autonomously,” MIT’s Iyad Rahwan said in a blog post. “This calls