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Twitter could roll out 'fake news' button on tweets
Twitter is exploring the idea of building a fake news button, a new report says. The feature is currently said to be in "a prototype phase", but could roll out in the future as a convenient way for users to stop the spread of false stories. How it would work isn't yet clear, but anonymous sources familiar with the plans say a fake news button could sit next to individual tweets. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.
David Moloney: 'AI is at a once-in-a-lifetime inflection point'
David Moloney believes countries such as Ireland have a rare chance to embrace their edge in AI and deep learning, otherwise they risk being flattened by change. The news last year that Irish tech firm Movidius was being acquired by chip giant Intel sent shockwaves throughout the tech scene because it was the strongest signal yet that the world was moving inexorably in a different direction, at quantum speed. For Movidius co-founder David Moloney, who will be speaking at next week's Inspirefest, it is a statement of intent. Because Intel does everything at hyper scale. 'The genie is well and truly out of the bottle. Embrace AI or be flattened' – DAVID MOLONEY In 20 years, we have gone from computers being beige boxes on desks, to supercomputers in our pockets.
Artificial intelligence to generate new cancer drugs on demand
IMAGE: This is the Architecture of the Adversarial Autoencoder (AAE). Thursday, 22nd of December Baltimore, MD - Scientists at the Pharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence (pharma.AI) group of Insilico Medicine, Inc, today announced the publication of a seminal paper demonstrating the application of generative adversarial autoencoders (AAEs) to generating new molecular fingerprints on demand. The study was published in Oncotarget on 22nd of December, 2016. The study represents the proof of concept for applying Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to drug discovery. The authors significantly extended this model to generate new leads according to multiple requested characteristics and plan to launch a comprehensive GAN-based drug discovery engine producing promising therapeutic treatments to significantly accelerate pharmaceutical R&D and improve the success rates in clinical trials.
'Kodi box' crackdown causes hundreds of sellers to shut down
The popularity of such devices has exploded over recent months, and Kodi has been extremely critical of both sellers and the sites that promote the use of the add-ons. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in ...
Loot Crate became the nation's fastest-growing start-up, then it laid off over a quarter of its staff
The company drew accolades for its fast growth, but tensions simmered inside the operation. The company drew accolades for its fast growth, but tensions simmered inside the operation. On its ascent to becoming the nation's fastest-growing start-up, Loot Crate Inc. fostered a workplace in which employees warred with Nerf guns, proudly brandished Captain America socks and chanted the company's name like a rally cry. But by last summer, when the Los Angeles firm landed on the cover of Inc. magazine for its stupendous expansion, the enthusiasm had been zapped. Last month, two senior executives came an eyelash away from fighting, not with foam darts, but with fists.
Petya cyber attack that spread around the world was intent on destruction, not on making money
The cyber attack that broke many of the world's biggest companies was intent only on destruction. Experts say that initial suggestions that the software was being used to make money may have been a distraction. The software might instead be part of a plan simply to cripple as many systems, companies and countries as possible, they said. The software itself suggested it was ransomware – when it was loaded up and had taken over users' computers, it asked for money to get the files back. But actually paying that money wasn't possible, and so it generated a tiny amount of cash.
How AI is changing SEO
SEO is a results business. So imagine if you have access to data that tells you precisely what you need to do in order to optimise your website and improve visibility in search engines. Well, you don't have to imagine, the technology is already available. Although AI SEO is still in its infant stages, in the next couple of years it will dominate how digital marketing companies develop SEO strategies. AI is already being used in digital marketing to gather data on ad targeting, determine the relevancy of content, identify customer segments for cross-selling, streamline marketing campaigns and analyse emotional values which have the most impact on a target audience.
IBM outfits Wimbledon with AI-powered fan tech
Wimbledon may be a legacy event -- it's been around for well over a century -- but the AELTC is likely looking to upgrade the tournament in a modern way with cutting-edge tech and Watson-powered AI, in particular. The IBM partnership recognizes the growing importance of crafting compelling content for sports and entertainment that goes beyond the television set, and several of the solutions being offered from IBM focus on efficiency of content production and then getting that content in front of eyeballs. These types of innovations around viewing and fan experiences will only become more pressing as TV continues to grapple with ratings declines spurred by cord-cutting and the rise of digital video alternatives. Major sporting events are a natural fit for AI-data analysis given their stats-driven, highlight-centric nature. AI can be used to crunch the numbers and string together highlight reels at a faster clip than can be accomplished manually, and IBM and the AELTC are smartly bringing that editorial and analysis to the place people are more often spending their time -- on their smartphones.
How Wimbledon is using AI to up its content game as it takes over BBC as 'lead broadcaster'
The upcoming Wimbledon championships mark the last before All England Lawn and Tennis Club (AELTC) takes responsibility from the BBC as the tournament's lead broadcaster, a shift that has seen it double-down on content production and experiment with new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). The AELTC has been flexing its digital muscles for some time now, working with IBM over the past two years to overhaul its data-capabilities, website and apps, and forge tech partnerships in the hopes of shedding its self-described "stuffy" image. As it stands, Wimbledon trebled its mobile audience last year, while its app was downloaded 1.5 million times in 2016. Now, as it faces a future with greater control of its content output it's testing the waters on how technology might help its still-limited team scale, particularly on video. With an average of three matches per court per day there is hundreds of hours of footage an editor might have to sift through for a highlights reel. To that end, it has used AI for the first time to automatically create'video highlights packages' that can be sent out to audiences directly or passed on to content partners within just 30 minutes, rather than the near hour is used to take.
Adobe releases analytics tools for conversational AI
It's still hard to say if the voice-controlled aluminum can will be the next smartphone or the next Segway, but either way, brands are preparing. This morning Adobe launched a new set of analytics tools, Adobe Sensei for Voice, to help brands take advantage of conversational data to improve targeting and, ideally, conversions. Adobe says it can consume data from Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana and Bixby (lol one day). The company captures both user intent and contextual data -- context that can be put to use by brands when targeting customers across other channels like social and email. This means Adobe can track the actions users most often take with their conversational AI of choice and the things they regularly interact with -- think calling an Uber versus listening to the latest Portugal. In practice, developers and brands will have access to the frequency of user interactions and the sequential actions taken after engaging with a particular service.