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‘Minimal Turing Test’ asks you to prove you’re a human with a single word

Sep24
by on September 24, 2018 at 5:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A pair of scientists recently came up with a new take on the Turing Test. It goes like this: “Imagine you and a smart robot are both before a judge who cannot see you. The judge will guess which of you is the human. Whoever the judge thinks is the human will live, and the robot will die. Both you and the robot want to live.” It isn’t every day you come across a white paper that reads like a choose-your-own-adventure novel. But hats off to University of Pennsylvania’s John McCoy and MIT’s Tomer Ullman — they had us riveted from the…

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Peter Theil’s attacks on higher education are boring

Sep24
by on September 24, 2018 at 4:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


A whole lot of hubbub has been generated by infamous billionaire Peter Theil and his repeated, dull attacks on higher education across the United States. Despite the fact that I keep seeing more and more about Theil in the media, usually when it comes to his ceaseless critiques of American universities, I think too few people are acknowledging one simple fact – Peter Theil and his long-disproven assault on higher ed isn’t just hopelessly wrong, it’s also incredibly boring. Here’s why I think Peter Theil’s long played-out criticisms of higher education are totally nonsensical, and so boring that they aren’t…

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Peter Theil’s attacks on higher education are boring

Sep24
by on September 24, 2018 at 4:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


A whole lot of hubbub has been generated by infamous billionaire Peter Theil and his repeated, dull attacks on higher education across the United States. Despite the fact that I keep seeing more and more about Theil in the media, usually when it comes to his ceaseless critiques of American universities, I think too few people are acknowledging one simple fact – Peter Theil and his long-disproven assault on higher ed isn’t just hopelessly wrong, it’s also incredibly boring. Here’s why I think Peter Theil’s long played-out criticisms of higher education are totally nonsensical, and so boring that they aren’t…

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Apple acquires Shazam and announces it’ll now be ad-free

Sep24
by on September 24, 2018 at 4:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Apple has just confirmed its acquisition of the music identification app, Shazam. On top of this, the company has announced that the app will become ad-free for all users, even for those on Android. This purchase has been on the cards for some time. In fact, we reported on it in December of last year, but it’s now completely official. Shazam was one of the early apps to gain success on the app store and has now been downloaded over a billion times. The app ‘listens’ to songs when users open it, then delivers links to the track through services like…

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Review: HTC’s Vive Wireless Adapter solves one of VR’s biggest problems

Sep24
by on September 24, 2018 at 3:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming, Plugged, virtual reality


HTC today launched its latest salvo in the war to win the hearts and minds of VR early-adopters: The Vive Wireless Adapter. We got our hands on one, made fun of how it looks, and then got lost in virtual reality with no tether to lead us home. The Vive Wireless Adapter is an accessory device for HTC’s Vive and Vive Pro headsets. As the name suggests, it allows you to use either headset without a tether. It’s a pretty ingenious little device.   But it does give your headset less of a “futuristic device connected to a giant computer…

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