The Echo Show is not just Amazon's best smart speaker, it's the most capable mainstream smart home assistant on the market. An Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor and a 7-inch color touchscreen pumps its price tag up to $230, but the display is worth the added cost to have at least one in a smart home with other Echo speakers. And the Show's eight-element far-field mic array is stronger than the ones on Amazon's other Echos, which for me eliminated the need to have an Echo Dot in an adjoining room. Amazon takes full advantage of that display, providing not just useful visual feedback, but also an in-home intercom--with video, if two Echo Shows are used--and a VoIP-type videophone system. I'll elaborate on the intercom feature shortly.

You'll want the Google Pixel 2 XL if you're looking for the purest, most elegant Android experience possible in a 6-inch phone. You'll want the Pixel 2 XL if you're looking for a stunning display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, amazing portrait photography, and a ton of surprise-and-delight features made possible by Google Lens and the rest of Google's A.I. tool chest. When the Pixel 2 XL was announced on Oct. 4, Google reminded us that its machine learning engine is watching our every move to improve its A.I. algorithms. So, yes, the Pixel 2 XL's ever-Googley magic tricks may keep robophobes up at night. And you'll rightfully want one it if you're due for a phone upgrade. But if you already own the original Pixel, your decision is more difficult. The Pixel 2 XL kicks ass, but much of what makes it special--stock Android, the Google Photos experience, Google Assistant in the home button, and Google Lens--are available in the first-generation Pixel phones, too. To this extent, the Pixel 2 XL (and the smaller Pixel 2, which I'll review soon) are victims of Google's success at creating a cloud-first, machine-learning platform that spans #MadeByGoogle devices. The Pixel 2 XL feels great in the hand. Before we drill down into features, let's get straight to Pixel 2 XL specs.

Twenty years ago, WIRED made a bold prediction: Cable modems are on the way out. "Things are looking bad for the cable industry: Careful study has shown that nearly the entire cable network would need to be replaced to make it suitable for two-way data traffic, and satellite services have been stealing away cable's television customers at an intolerable rate." Fast-forward to 2017 and ... cable modems are everywhere. Hey, points for journalistic confidence. Listen, predicting the future is thankless and hard and often ill-advised.

This is interesting, but I wish they also included precision somehow. AUC ROC can look good when precision is in fact not so good. And there are a lot of scenarios when precision might be important, so measuring impact on that would have been nice.

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander just got married. The "X-Men: Apocalypse" actor and the "Ex Machina" star, who are notorious for keeping their romance under wraps, secretly got engaged and later secretly tied the knot as well, according to E! News. The couple reportedly exchanged "I do's" in Ibiza on Saturday, October 14. Fassbender and Vikander were seen entertaining relatives and friends over the weekend. On Friday, Fassbender and Vikander, along with their families and friends, were spotted at the beach, where they enjoyed lunch and went on a boat cruise.

Microsoft has been adding data model offload to its Azure Machine Learning service, including for iOS 11.

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander just got married. The "X-Men: Apocalypse" and the "Ex Machina" stars are notorious for keeping their romance under wrap. According to E! News, Fassbender and Vikander had a secret engagement and they followed this with a secret wedding. The publication noted that the couple exchanged "I Dos" in Ibiza on Saturday. The "Assassin's Creed" actor and the "Tomb Raider" actress were seen entertaining relatives and friends over the weekend.

Music etched onto the film of X-rays was the only way some rock-and-roll lovers in the former Soviet Union could listen to certain tunes. Now, people trade these old relics online and visit museums to see them. Go big in your home's smallest room. Want a clean, modern look? These shipping containers have left their itinerant lives as vessels that carried goods around the world, only to be reborn as structural and design elements of modern homes.

I discovered this neural network architecture (that I have named as Absolute Neural Network) while pondering over the thought: "Do we really use different parts of the brain while imagining something that we memorised?". I went on and investigated this question further and finally found the answer. We use the same part of the brain in the reverse direction while visualising an entity that we memorised in the forward direction. Key findings: 1.) A feed forward neural network can learn in both directions forward and backward. Seems ReLUs were just half correct.)

The consulting group's study included a computer simulation of how downtown Boston traffic would change with the advent of self-driving taxis, buses and private cars. It would likely add vehicles to roads while simultaneously reducing traffic time.