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This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 9:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has an interesting new tactic in the war on fake news: make more of it. A team of researchers at the institute recently developed Grover, a neural network capable of generating fake news articles in the style of actual human journalists. In essence, the group is fighting fire with fire because the better Grover gets at generating fakes, the better it’ll be at detecting them. According to the institute: Our study presents a surprising result: the best way to detect neural fake news is to use a model that is also a generator. The…

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The new Pi-Top uses the Raspberry Pi 4 (and isn’t a laptop)

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 4:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Pi-Top today announced its latest model – the Pi-Top [4]. As you’d expect, this machine is powered by the Raspberry Pi 4 computer, which boasts increased performance, and the ability to power two external 4K displays. Oh, and it’s not a laptop. That’s a weird one, because Pi-Top is known for its elaborate Raspberry Pi-based portable computers. In its early years, the company 3D printed its machines, but as time has dragged on, its computers have become increasingly sophisticated – and, dare I say, a bit more professional. The Pi-Top [4] comes in a square package and looks not too…

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98% of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision’s activity comes from a dumb weather app

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 4:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The majority of transactions running through the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) network haven’t anything to do with cryptocurrency. In fact, pretty much all of its current on-chain activity comes from weathersv.com, an automated weather service that simply copies data from another (centralized) weather site and writes it to the BSV blockchain. What people fail to realize is a paid subscription service that copies data hourly from an existing website (https://t.co/v3rn5j6FBd) and pastes it into BSV blocks accounts for 98.4% of BSV transactions over the past 30 days pic.twitter.com/iZiunToCEw — Painted Frog (@painted_frog) June 24, 2019 As spotted by Twitter user @painted_frog, weather.sv accounted…

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Microsoft’s mysterious dual-screen Surface will reportedly run Android apps

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


The rumor mill has long suggested Microsoft is working on a dual-screen Surface, but we’ve seen little in the way of specifics. Originally, rumors pointed towards a pocketable device named Andromeda, but more recently it seems Microsoft is focusing on a larger device codenamed Centaurus. A report from Forbes has shed some light on what we might expect from the device. IHS Markit, a market research firm with “supply chain info,” told Forbes the foldable Surface could be released the first half of next year and is expected two have dual 9-inch screens and a 4:3 aspect ratio. It’s also…

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This is how I stay productive when flying economy

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 2:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


It’s not just you. For the past forty years, airline seats have shrunk to the point where some carriers offer just 28 inches of pitch – defined as the distance from the back of your seat to the seat in front of you – to economy passengers. If you’re going on holiday, that’s probably not that much of a problem, but what if you’re traveling for work? This is a problem I run into regularly. Last year, I flew about 75 segments, almost all seated in economy. Trying to get things done with a regular laptop is almost impossible. Firstly,…

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