Safari's'Siri Suggested Websites' feature has been serving up links to conspiracy theories. If users typed a term like'Pizzagate' into Apple's browser, the feature would point users in the direction of a video titled'Pizzagate, Biggest Scandal Ever' by conspiracy theorist David Seaman, according to BuzzFeed. The issue, which occurred for other popular (and debunked) conspiracy theories, has since been resolved by Apple. Safari's'Siri Suggested Websites' has been serving up links to conspiracy theories. If users type'Pizzagate' into the browser, it would point them to a YouTube video promoting the theory MailOnline has reached out to Apple for comment.

ABSTRACT In this paper, we extend the sampling theory on graphs by constructing a framework that exploits the structure in product graphs for efficient sampling and recovery of bandlimited graph signals that lie on them. Product graphs are graphs that are composed from smaller graph atoms; we motivate how this model is a flexible and useful way to model richer classes of data that can be multi-modal in nature. Previous works have established a sampling theory on graphs for bandlimited signals. Importantly, the framework achieves significant savings in both sample complexity and computational complexity. Index Terms-- sampling, graph signal processing, bandlimited, kronecker product I. INTRODUCTION The task of sampling and recovery is one of the most critical topics in the signal processing community.

Microsoft has reached a milestone in text-to-speech synthesis with a production system that uses deep neural networks to make the voices of computers nearly indistinguishable from recordings of people. With the human-like natural prosody and clear articulation of words, Neural TTS has significantly reduced listening fatigue when you interact with AI systems. Our team demonstrated our neural-network powered text-to-speech capability at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, this week. The capability is currently available in preview through Azure Cognitive Services Speech Services. Neural text-to-speech can be used to make interactions with chatbots and virtual assistants more natural and engaging, convert digital texts such as e-books into audiobooks and enhance in-car navigation systems.

The Wizard of Oz movie is filled with classic quotes. One of them is simply, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" That quote, of course, occurs when Dorothy's dog, Toto, pulls back a curtain to reveal a man at a control panel and microphone. Rather than the sought-after magical Wizard of Oz, the man is, at best, a wizard of special effects. Today, nearly 80 years after the first release of the movie version of Wizard of Oz, we live with a wizard of our own making who is now often behind the curtain in video games, movies and sporting events.

Amazon announced so many new hardware products last week that it's hard to know which one will respond the next time you shout "Alexa!" in your house. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Alexa-equipped microwave sucked up a lot of the (electromagnetic) air in the room: not only does the $60 microwave work indirectly with Alexa, but it knows when you're running out of popcorn. But the most interesting home product to emerge from the pile of Echo products last week wasn't the microwave. It was the new Echo Show. It's a glimpse of Amazon's vision for the TV of the future--whether that's streaming video, over-the-air television, or casual games played on a large screen.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the first show on American television to use the word "Google" as a transitive verb. It was 2002, in the fourth episode of the show's seventh and final season. Buffy, Willow, Xander and the gang are trying to help Cassie, a high school student who cryptically says she's going to die next week. In Buffy's dining room, they search through hard copies of Cassie's medical records and find nothing noteworthy. Willow, tapping away on a thick white iBook, turns to Buffy and asks, "Have you Googled her yet?"

Translation apps are getting better, but they're still not perfect, particularly for minority languages. Can artificial intelligence and deep neural networks help iron out the glitches? During the World Cup in Russia this summer there was a dramatic spike in the use of Google Translate, the company says, as fans tried to strike up conversations with their hosts and fellow fans from around the world. The words for "stadium" and "beer" were in particularly high demand. These days the traditional phrasebook is on the way out.

Not to be outdone by Amazon's deluge of hardware announcements last week, set-top box maker Roku is readying two new, low-cost streaming video boxes. Along with the new hardware, Roku is going to work with Google Assistant voice control to make it easier for users to find all the streaming content available for bingeing. Roku said in a briefing last week that it's adding two new 4K streaming boxes: the Roku Premiere and Roku Premiere . These boxes have a similar form factor to Roku's Express line; they're tiny pieces of hardware, much smaller than the remote they ship with, and are so lightweight they come with a strip of tape so you can stick them to your entertainment console. But these tiny Rokus stream 4K HDR video, pack quad-core processors, and come with updated firmware that the company says contributes to a smoother streaming experience.

Octopai, the leader in metadata management automation for BI, has been recognized in Gartner's September 2018 "Cool Vendors in Data Science and Machine Learning" report by analysts Peter Krensky, Svetlana Sicular, Jim Hare, Erick Brethenoux and Austin Kronz, as one of 5 Cool Vendors According to Gartner, "Data and analytics leaders should engage with vendors in areas such as data management, unstructured data analysis and model operationalization." "We are very honored to be named a Gartner Cool Vendor for 2018," said Amnon Drori, Co-founder and CEO of Octopai. "The growing complexity of data management environments has created a need for modern and disruptive metadata management automation tools. We believe Octopai's inclusion in the Gartner report highlights this need." According to the report, "as citizen data science, enabled by augmented analytics, dramatically increases the volume of models created, discipline in data management and operationalization becomes even more critical."

In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering graduate from the University of Michigan, was one of those being shown around the Palo Alto, California campus. "I thought he was pretty obnoxious," Larry Page said of the encounter. "He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too." "We both found each other obnoxious," said Sergey Brin.