A team lead by Vlad Firoiu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained an AI to play the game using deep learning algorithms and then pitched it against ten highly-ranked players. The AI came out on top against every one of them.
Day: February 24, 2017
Case Study: Bonobos Integrates In-Store Tech for Seamless Shopping Experience
Merchant: Bonobos Location: Nationwide Size: 30+ Guideshop locations Platforms: Tulip Retail Bottom Line: In-store mobile technology can help associates forge deeper relationships with retail shoppers. In many ways, Bonobos has become a model for e-commerce startups.
Case Study: Bonobos Integrates In-Store Tech for Seamless Shopping Experience
Merchant: Bonobos Location: Nationwide Size: 30+ Guideshop locations Platforms: Tulip Retail Bottom Line: In-store mobile technology can help associates forge deeper relationships with retail shoppers. In many ways, Bonobos has become a model for e-commerce startups.
Beyond phones and 5G, mobile world seeks to reinvent itself
Next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will feature phone companies in various stages of acceptance that the industry’s predictable, decades-old business model based on selling data packages by the millions is running out of steam. Beneath the facade of shiny new phones and dusty debates over network technical implementations, Europe’s largest annual technology fair will see top phone companies parading far-reaching business makeovers.
element14 wireless Cape
When it comes to development boards, it’s not just about the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The TI-friendly BeagleBone is there in the mix, too, fighting for your attention.
element14 wireless Cape
When it comes to development boards, it’s not just about the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The TI-friendly BeagleBone is there in the mix, too, fighting for your attention.
The Wall Street Journal: Headache for Cloudfare and potentially some clients over data leak
A software bug at a widely used internet-service provider that caused it to leak data has created a potential security headache for thousands of its corporate customers. The bug at Cloudflare Inc., disclosed Thursday, has affected company systems since September of last year.
The Wall Street Journal: Headache for Cloudfare and potentially some clients over data leak
A software bug at a widely used internet-service provider that caused it to leak data has created a potential security headache for thousands of its corporate customers. The bug at Cloudflare Inc., disclosed Thursday, has affected company systems since September of last year.
VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (VDSI) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “Vasco Data Security International Inc. design, develop, market and support security products and services which manage and secure access to computer systems of corporate and government customers. Additionally, the company enables secure financial transactions made over private enterprise networks and public networks, such as the Internet.
Merchant Advisory Group Launches Task Force Focused on Online and Mobile Commerce
Online and mobile commerce sales continue to grow at a rapid pace in the United States. The Merchant Advisory Group , which represents over 100 of the largest merchants and franchisors in the United States, recently formed a task force focused on these types of sales.
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 24 February 2017
The docking capture time was 055/08:29:50 GMT . Following hatch opening the crew transferred early unstow and US cargo items.
More Fear-Mongering About Apple Innovation
Do you remember what they said about the iPhone 7? It would be a boring upgrade, mostly because it would look the same as the iPhone 6s. So how could it offer anything significant? But it’s not that a rectangle with circular corners comprises all the functionality of a smartphone, obviously.
Has a Second Earth Been Found? Nasa Are About To Reveal a Huge Discovery
NASA is gearing up to reveal some BIG news to the world, and it could have massive implications in the search for alien life forms outside of Earth. It’s reported that the U.S space agency will hold a press conference on Wednesday where they will reveal exactly what they’ve found on planets that orbit stars other than our sun.
Rough Times for Ex-Money Spinner Now Baffling Centrica CEO
It’s been a backbone of the U.K.’s gas market for more than 30 years, but the future of the Rough gas storage facility in the North Sea has never been more in doubt. Owner Centrica Plc on Thursday raised the prospect that Rough, which provides about 70 percent of the U.K.’s storage capacity, may not work much longer as a place for traders and utilities to stockpile the fuel.
Austria’s Kern Targets Rise of Robots to Blunt Populist Surge
Austria’s Chancellor Christian Kern said rapid advances in automation will threaten half of the world’s jobs as he backed calls by Bill Gates to fight inequality with measures such as a tax on robots. Disruption “starts at a slow pace and then comes a big step change.
Glencore Hunts Among U.S. Grain Traders for Next Big Takeover
After striking deals in Russian oil and Congolese copper mining, Glencore Plc has set its sights on the U.S. grain-trading industry. The company sold half of its agriculture division to two Canadian pension funds for $3.1 billion last year to fund an aggressive debt-reduction plan.
Man United trumps Bayern as China’s most influential team
The Red Devils knocked perennial German champions Bayern Munich from their perch as the most influential online team in China, according to Red Card 2017, a comprehensive “off the pitch” football analysis produced by Shanghai-based Mailman Group. The sixth edition of Red Card analyzed the influence of 53 leading European clubs across eight different performance indicators including social media presence, live streaming capabilities, and e-commerce.
Robot adept in interpreting sign language developed in C China
Song Jiyuan poses with a robot adept in interpreting sign language at a makerspace of the National University Science Park of Henan Province in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, Feb. 23, 2017. The robot, developed by Song Jiyuan, a student from mechanical engineering department of Zhengzhou University, and his classmates, can quickly interpret sign language as well as translating voice into sign language.
Pro-ISIS Telegram Channel Releases Hit List Of Egyptian Churches
An Egyptian Christian was burned alive by ISIS in northeastern Sinai, according to an Egyptian security source who specified that the alleged ISIS jihadists used a firearm to kill another Coptic Christian. Al-Ahram reports that the father, 65-year-old Saad Hana, and his son, 45-year-old Medhat, were found by Egyptian security officials on Wednesday.
Billions at stake in battle over gene-editing patents
Much like a surgical scalpel, the technique allows the genome to be edited by clipping out a specific area of DNA and in some cases replacing it with new instructions The first skirmish was fought last week in what could be a long war over a revolutionary patent on gene-editing technology, with colossal amounts of money at stake. Facing off are the top international experts in the fast-growing field of gene-editing – pitting American scientist Feng Zhang, against the French-American duo of Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.
New Alien movie features gay couple repopulating planet
If you’re a fan of the Alien movies, which of the following do you recognize as being in the contemporary standard formula of Alien films? B) A large crew, warned of hostile aliens, breaks down into small numbers and goes to dark, isolated places to see what happens next. If you answered “E,” you are correct! The new Aliens: Covenant film features a ship of colonists going to populate a new planet.
How one startup peon had a real-life Slumdog Millionaire moment
The old English proverb came to life for Mumbai-based Shyam Kumar, a peon at mobile wallet firm Citrus Pay. He became a millionaire after his employer was acquired by Naspers-backed online payments company PayU in a $130 million deal last year.
Help a Guam 5th grader become the next Google doodle
One Upi Elementary School 5th grade student needs your help to win the national Doodle 4 Google competition , which could in turn get her artwork featured on the Google homepage for millions of viewers to see as well as tens of thousands of dollars for her classmates here at home. Since Google founders put the very first burning man themed doodle on the Google frontpage, it’s become an integral part of the company’s public image.
Awesome 11-year-old girl invents a prosthetic arm that blasts glitter
She designed and created a prosthetic arm that shoots out glitter. It’s working title? “Project Unicorn.”
20th D.I.C.E. Awards Honors Best in Interactive Entertainment
Celebrating its 20th year of honoring the industry’s top games, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences , the non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of the interactive arts representing its 33,000+ membership base, is pleased to announce the recipients of the D.I.C.E. Awards for the best games from 2016. Earning Game of the Year was Overwatch by Blizzard Entertainment, which challenges players to join the ranks of a legendary force of soldiers, scientists, adventurers and oddities, and clash on the battlefields of a near-future Earth.
Ambitious Engineer At Center of Colossal Fight Between Google and Uber 2 hours ago
In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google’s self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.
Apple ‘spaceship’ headquarters readies for boarding
Apple CEO Tim Cook stands in front of a slide of the company’s new campus which is under construction in 2016. Photo: AFP/ Josh Edelson Apple on Wednesday announced that workers will start boarding its futuristic new “spaceship” campus in Silicon Valley in April, fulfilling a vision set out by late founder Steve Jobs.
Ronaldo, Manchester United top Chinese internet tables
Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo running in the rain during the Spanish league football match Real Madrid CF vs Real Sporting de Gijon at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. File Photo: AFP Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo is comfortably the most influential soccer player online in China, while Manchester United are the most dominant club, according to a report.
Jupiter craft stuck going in long loops
It currently takes Juno 53 days to fly around the solar system’s biggest planet. That’s almost four times longer than the intended 14-day orbit.