Two of the most widely quoted and shared poems in the closing years of this decade were William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming" ("Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"), and W.H. Auden's "September 1, 1939" ("Waves of anger and fear / Circulate over the bright / And darkened lands of the earth"). Yeats's poem, written just after World War I, spoke of a time when "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." Auden's poem, written in the wake of Germany's invasion of Poland, described a world lying "in stupor," as democracy is threatened and "the enlightenment driven away." Apocalypse is not yet upon our world as the 2010s draw to an end, but there are portents of disorder. The hopes nourished during the opening years of the decade -- hopes that America was on a progressive path toward growing equality and freedom, hopes that technology held answers to some of our most pressing problems -- have given way, with what feels like head-swiveling speed, to a dark and divisive new era.

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If I had told you in 2010 that one day you'd be able to take photos and videos with a flying camera that would take off from the ground, follow your directions as it soared into the skies and miraculously returned back, you might have thought I was pretty crazy. As did an app that could sense where you were and get a car to you within minutes for a ride. And a small box that connected to the TV and changed how we view entertainment forever. Yup, the "10s" were pretty mind-blowing for tech. So enjoy, as we run them down in the final 2019 edition of the Talking Tech newsletter.

Retail marketing and back-office tasks are increasingly informed by big data and machine learning.

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Peach Restores is a project using machine learning (artificial intelligence) to upscale and improve the image quality of Michael Jackson's short films! Here you will find all the download links for the already restored videos. Look for the links in the menu to check all videos available on both Google Drive and Mega.nz! Check out our Twitter for more info, WIPs, comparison images and more!

Over the past 10 years, thousands of movies have hit the world's multiplexes. It's nearly impossible to watch, let alone review, all of them. Yet, looking back over the past decade, it's easy to recall the ones that left indelible marks. The ones that caused audiences to leave the theater gobsmacked (or heartbroken, or mind-blown). For us at WIRED, this list (in chronological order) represents those movies. Not everything here is a genre film--our specialty--but there are probably more sci-fi, fantasy, and comic-book movies here than on any other best-of roundup.

Amazon has been introducing many useful tools to make machine learning easier for developers around the world.

'AI is pushing at some of these human skills but we're a long way off where it will replace human intelligence.

Fake video and audio streams that appear to be real can ruin the reputations of your executives and your company. They can cost you money. They can even cost you your job. Fortunately, there are steps you can take that can help. If you're at all familiar with the term "deep fake" you probably think about it in terms of fake videos about celebrities or politicians where they're already being used as parts of disinformation campaigns.