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This AI can pass an 8th grade science exam — but is it really ‘learning’ science?

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 8:42 am
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Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that scored above 90 percent on an 8th grade science test and 80 percent on a 12th-grade exam. Passing a science test might sound mundane, if you’re not familiar with how deep learning algorithms, the current bleeding edge of AI, work. After all, AI is already performing tasks such as diagnosing cancer, detecting fraud and playing complicated games, which are much more complicated than answering simple science questions about the moon and squirrel populations. But despite its fascinating achievements, deep learning struggles when it comes to tackling problems…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin dips below $10,000 (again), Litecoin crashes’

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 8:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Marie Curie used to say: Yolo! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 23 2019, at a price of $9,729. That’s a notable 3.36 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$338.63. It was the lowest closing price in twenty-two days. We’re still 51 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $174,674,558,023.…

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Xiaomi put a wraparound screen and a 108MP camera on its insane Mi Mix Alpha phone

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 8:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Xiaomi is out to make smartphone enthusiasts’ jaws drop to the floor with its new Mi Mix Alpha, the concept phone it revealed at an event in China today. The handset has a wraparound screen that practically covers the front and back, save for a strip that houses a 108-megapixel camera. The company said the device has an insane screen to body ratio of 180.6 percent; all of the phone’s antennae are embedded in the top and bottom bezel, and the camera strip. The device has been made from a mix of titanium alloy, sapphire glass, and ceramic. Aerospace-grade titanium…

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German telecom giant hires blockchain professor – hopefully, it’s a good thing

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 8:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


It’s not just NASA that’s hiring for blockchain professionals. Deutsche Telekom, the German telecom company headquartered in Bonn, has created a specialized blockchain professorship in collaboration with a Berlin-based university. The “professorship for software engineering with a specialization in blockchain” is stationed at CODE University of Applied Sciences. Academic Dr. Peter Ruppel, best known for his work into distributed systems, has taken up the role and commenced teaching yesterday, the first day of the new academic year. Dr. Ruppel’s aim is to further explore distributed ledger tech, and let’s hope he doesn’t go easy. The initiative between Deutsche Telekom and…

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Microsoft issues emergency Windows patch to address Internet Explorer zero-day flaw

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 7:58 am
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Microsoft has issued an emergency out-of-band security update to address two critical vulnerabilities impacting Internet Explorer and Windows Defender. The flaws — indexed as CVE-2019-1367 and CVE-2019-1255 — made it possible for a remote attacker to take control of a target system and trigger a denial of service in Microsoft Defender, the antivirus app that ships with Windows software. Of the two, the former is a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer affecting versions 9, 10, and 11 and is the more severe one. The remote code execution flaw, if exploited successfully, could enable an attacker to gain the same user…

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