Figuring out cyberbullying and online harassment. It’s harder than you’d think.
New Scientist takes a hard look at the realities of online harassment – how complicated it is to identify, why it’s increasing, and what can […]
computer science
SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the post “Here’s […]
SONG: Facts Will Save Us All
SONG: “Facts Will Save Us All”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove,” New York Times, 17 Apr 2017, as used in […]
Microsoft’s Ballmer sics big data on government spending.
New York Times announces how one of America’s wealthiest computer scientists makes it possible to track where your tax money *really*, really goes: In an […]
Chess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.
Scientific American prepares us for our cybernetic overlords with a machine that knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em… how to call […]
We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.
Nature pores over the blueprints drawn up using today’s technology… and a $126 million budget… for the next big step in computing power: “Yes it […]
MASSIVE botnet army discovered on Twitter… just… sitting there.
Technology Review reports on a veritable horde of fake accounts – a network of 350,000 users – that have been ready to parrot messages en […]
Mysterious new go champion revealed to be an AI.
Nature reports on the latest surprise to come out of the DeepMind project, who just revealed one of their programs as the anonymous master who’s […]
World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.
The Guardian reports on a rational, logical approach to making the big bucks… by evaluating trades (and making hiring and firing decisions) using a custom-built […]
Virtually conquering Everest
Sports Illustrated is taking all of us along on a virtual-reality climb to the summit of Mt. Everest: Sports Illustrated will partner with Endemol Shine […]
Data analysts figure out Trump tweets: politics, technology, “angry” words and hashtags.
I try to avoid politics, but the science behind this is really kind of fascinating. Over at Variance Explained, David Robinson used a bunch of […]
Prisoners used in *data-harvesting* experiment.
Their tattoos, specifically, according to this piece in Motherboard. The FBI teamed up with the National Institute for Standards and Technology to create a database […]
SONG: Everything Appears to be in Order
SONG: “Everything Appears to be in Order”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “AI Pioneer ROSS Intelligence Lands Its First Big Law Clients,” The American Lawyer, 6 May […]
First firm to hire a virtual attorney. It’ll be handling bankruptcies….
The American Lawyer reports on Ross, the newest legal mind to join Baker & Hostetler – despite being an artificial intelligence programmed to analyze bankruptcy […]
Monarch migration mystery – solved! (We think.)
BBC reports on the computer model that seems to explain how the monarch butterflies make their amazing Canada-to-Mexico trek: Lead researcher Prof Eli Shlizerman, from […]