Sports videogame releases are usually drab affairs. New versions come out every year, and beyond roster updates and a few gameplay tweaks, they don't change that much from edition to edition. But EA Sports College Football 25, which will be released worldwide on 19 July, isn't a typical game. It may well be the most anticipated sports video game release ever in the US. And to understand why, we need to go back to the beginning.

Signature-based techniques give mathematical insight into the interactions between complex streams of evolving data. These insights can be quite naturally translated into numerical approaches to understanding streamed data, and perhaps because of their mathematical precision, have proved useful in analysing streamed data in situations where the data is irregular, and not stationary, and the dimension of the data and the sample sizes are both moderate. Understanding streamed multi-modal data is exponential: a word in $n$ letters from an alphabet of size $d$ can be any one of $d^n$ messages. Signatures remove the exponential amount of noise that arises from sampling irregularity, but an exponential amount of information still remain. This survey aims to stay in the domain where that exponential scaling can be managed directly. Scalability issues are an important challenge in many problems but would require another survey article and further ideas. This survey describes a range of contexts where the data sets are small enough to remove the possibility of massive machine learning, and the existence of small sets of context free and principled features can be used effectively. The mathematical nature of the tools can make their use intimidating to non-mathematicians. The examples presented in this article are intended to bridge this communication gap and provide tractable working examples drawn from the machine learning context. Notebooks are available online for several of these examples. This survey builds on the earlier paper of Ilya Chevryev and Andrey Kormilitzin which had broadly similar aims at an earlier point in the development of this machinery. This article illustrates how the theoretical insights offered by signatures are simply realised in the analysis of application data in a way that is largely agnostic to the data type.

A year ago, NOV Inc. was in the middle of evaluating a new security product to help with securing its globally distributed workforce, spread across more than 60 countries. The oilfield equipment maker was considering deploying an extended detection and response (XDR) solution from SentinelOne -- and as part of the evaluation, NOV deployed the XDR platform across a company it had recently acquired. "Immediately" after deployment, SentinelOne's Singularity XDR detected and halted a cyberattack in progress against the acquired company, said NOV chief information security officer John McLeod -- and then remediated the attack, as well. "This was all done during the pandemic lockdown, in a country on the other side of the globe, where we didn't speak the same language," McLeod said in an email. Perhaps unsurprisingly, NOV ended up becoming a customer.

Hinge is the latest dating app that's making a push into audio. Starting today, users can attach voice clips to profiles, in what's said to be a first for a major dating app. You can also send audio notes to your matches. You can add an audio clip to your profile by going to the Edit Profile section of the settings and selecting Voice Prompt. You can choose a prompt (a question or comment suggested by the app to highlight something about you) and respond with a 30-second recording.

But it is also symbolic of the chasm between good intentions and reality that many of us may have experienced recently. This high-achieving CEO says that, while working from home, he was "going to write a lot on that", but didn't. He turns to look at its blank expanse. It's comforting for those of us who also haven't used this change of pace for vast plans and self-improvement. Which is not to say that McLeod has had a quiet year – far from it. Isolating at home, without the usual options of meeting people, he saw a 63% rise in the number of people downloading Hinge, his dating app.

Barrister and human rights advocate Fiona McLeod, who delivered the Solomon Lecture titled Accountability in the age of the artificial, said accountability was under threat in Australia and internationally. Ms McLeod called for a robust national integrity commission. "We have settled for a'trust us or vote us out' model of democracy and a veneer of transparency resulting in a piecemeal and un-strategic approach to accountability," she said. "For example, the federal government committed to bring in a Commonwealth integrity commission after its hand was forced by independents in the last Parliament. "The original preferred model of a closed hearings, with no power of the commission to initiate inquiries, appeared to me more like a benign hall monitor issuing'don't run' notices than a body capable of balancing competing public and private interests, of driving a culture of anti-corruption throughout government, private organisations and the community."

It's common knowledge that Barack Obama met the woman who eventually became his wife, Michelle Robinson, when he came to work at her law firm as a summer associate. George W. Bush met the future Mrs. Bush, who was Laura Welch back then, at a barbecue and took her mini-golfing the next day. And we all remember that Bill and Hillary Clinton were law school sweethearts. The historical record is full of these president-and-first-lady origin stories: Harry Truman was just 6 when he met the woman he would go on to marry, in church. So it's only natural to ask how the current crop of presidential candidates' how-they-met stories stack up.

Hinge, the dating app that promised a better set of prospects by suggesting matches who share Facebook friends, is about to radically change its course: it's ditching its requirement that users log in with Facebook. The change will go into effect on Monday, June 5th on Android, followed by a June 12th release on iOS. While the option to use Facebook won't be fully removed, users will instead be able to choose to authenticate using their phone number, the company says. The decision was prompted by ongoing requests from users who have asked for a non-Facebook login option, Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod says. This is especially important to the company as people "move away from Facebook and onto other platforms," he notes.

The first day of the 2017 IA Summit overwhelmed me in the best way possible. I attended a variety of sessions, talks and discussions about how machines and humans are meant to work together, as a team, to solve the different challenges people face today. In keeping with the theme of "Designing for Humans," some talks expanded on the role of the information architect and how they can enhance their own skills and add value with the aid of artificial intelligence--and not the other way around. Here's a quick overview of what I saw, and how we can use AI to enhance our own abilities. As information architects from all over the world gathered at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, keynote speaker Alan Cooper, co-founder of Cooper, shared his "Ranch Stories" and described how software and interaction design should be built the same way a farmer takes care of its land.

In 2013, a new dating app called Hinge was launched, which like Tinder, used the swiping feature. But while users were swiping a lot, the app found that only 15 per cent of matches were turning into conversations. To get millennials talking again, Hinge has re-launched a new version of the app, which replaces swiping with the ability to like and comment on other users' pictures, in the hope of sparking conversation. Hinge has re-launched a new version of the app, which replaces swiping with the ability to like and comment on other users' pictures, in the hopes of sparking conversation Rather than swiping through profiles, users can now interact by commenting on each others' photos, or responding to their'story card' – which contain information such as favourite music, and life goals. Unlike other swipe apps, where two users have to like each other to interact, users have the freedom to comment or like any other user's page.