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Sony's upgraded PlayStation 4 is codenamed 'NEO', leaks reveal

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display



Killer robots and digital doctors: how can we protect society from AI?

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Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Tesla and PayPal, is worried about killer robots. "You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's sure he can control the demon?" he has warned. That "unfriendly AI", as it is known in tech circles, would not be a boon for humanity is an easy cause to get behind. But unlike Musk – a tech entrepreneur who stands to make huge financial gains from AI in the short term – most of us don't have the luxury of taking the long view. The defeat, last week, of one of the world's strongest Go players, Lee Sedol, demonstrates the qualitative leap in AI that has already taken place.


Biohackers are turning to the black market for BRAIN implants: Risky surgery could allow humans to become mind readers

Daily Mail - Science & tech

A pair of wealthy Americans are looking for brain implants on the black market that will allow them to communicate with each other using the power of thought. That's according to presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan who believe that in a few decades, we could all be plugged into an AI'matrix'. 'Eventually, this type of technology will allow us to be connected 24/7 to the internet and on social media,' he told the DailyMail.com. 'This is the beginning of the hive mind, where everyone is interconnected to one another.' A pair of wealthy Americans are looking for brain implants on the black market that will allow them to communicate with each other using the power of thought.


Why machine learning is the new BI

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Business intelligence has gone from static reports that tell you what happened, to interactive dashboards where you can drill into information to try and understand why it happened. New big data sources, including Internet of things (IoT) devices, are pushing businesses from those reactive analytics -- whether you look back once a month to spot trends or once a day to check for problems -- to proactive analytics that give you alerts and real-time dashboards. That makes better use of operational data, which is more useful while it's still current, before conditions change. "There's a demand for real-time dashboards," says Herain Oberoi from Microsoft's Cortana Analytics team. "A lot of businesses want to get the pulse of their business. But dashboards show things that have already happened."


Hitachi Social Innovation Stories The new crime-fighter: how does artificial intelligence support security surveillance?

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At a time when there is high pressure and scrutiny around security, innovative new technologies are helping to track and predict crime. Artificial intelligence (AI) is key in this new way of fighting crime, providing analysis that can give real support to law enforcement services as they make difficult decisions about how best to use their resources. CCTV cameras have been in use in Europe since the Second World War. However, they have sometimes come under scrutiny about their effectiveness when it comes to tackling crime, as they tend to only provide retrospective support for law enforcement (such as placing a suspect at the scene of the crime in their trial). With new cameras able to send and receive data via a computer network and the Internet (IPTV), as well as the huge amount of data collected every second using traditional CCTV, AI can collate this data extremely quickly ready for analysis.


Xbox 360 production stopped as Microsoft announces that console is going to be killed off

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


Norwegian court rules mass killer Breivik's rights violated

U.S. News

Norwegian authorities have violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by holding him in solitary confinement in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, a court in Oslo ruled Wednesday. In a written decision, the Oslo district court said Breivik's solitary confinement for killing 77 people in 2011 bomb-and-gun massacres breached the European Convention on Human Rights' ban on inhuman treatment. "The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society," the court said. "This applies no matter what -- also in the treatment of terrorists and killers." The court ordered the government to pay Breivik's legal costs of 331,000 kroner, about 41,000.


Theano Tutorial - Marek Rei

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This is an introductory tutorial on using Theano, the Python library. I'm going to start from scratch and assume no previous knowledge of Theano. However, understanding how neural networks work will be useful when getting to the code examples towards the end. I recently gave this tutorial as a talk in University of Cambridge and it turned out to be way more popular than expected. In order to give more people access to the material, I'm now writing it up as a blog post. I do not claim to know everything about Theano, and I constantly learn new things myself.


Rich Americans seek black market brain implants to plug into AI 'matrix'

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A pair of super-rich American technology gurus are planning to undergo surgery to install experimental implants directly into their brains. The two men are currently trying to find a doctor willing to perform this untested and highly risky procedure, The Mirror has learned. If they survive the operation, the men hope to be able to directly communicate with the primitive forms of artificial intelligence currently being developed in labs across the world. But critics and conspiracy theorists fear these pioneering implants are the first step towards creating a society where every human is plugged into "the matrix". Zoltan Istvan, a U.S. Presidential candidate, personally knows both of these would-be bionic men.