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RELATED STORIES There’s a moment in every season of American Horror Story when you discover that all is not as it seems. For AHS: 1984, that moment came in Episode 2, when the Night Stalker encountered Jonas — that handsome hitchhiker-turned-roadkill we met last week — and proceeded to gut him like a damn tauntaun. […]
Facebook’s Rosetta technology analyzes billions of images that contain text, but memes are more than the sum of their parts. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b9ad45399ef2f5a22cd715f/master/pass/facebook_rosetta_FA-01.jpg
Enlarge / Nothing like cartoony smiley faces to break down how smartphones, local networks, and TV devices could join forces to trigger microphones and listen to advertisements’ audio. (credit: US Patent + Trademark Office) As Facebook tries to get ahead of public pressure about what the service does and doesn’t track about its users, a […]
The US Department of Homeland Security is looking to build a media monitoring database. When some reporters objected, a DHS spokesman dismissed their concerns as fodder for “black helicopter conspiracy theorists.” Service providers who want to bid for the program have until April 13 to submit a capabilities statement, according to the notice posted on […]
A report from Gizmodo says that Google is partnering with the United States Department of Defense and building drone software. The project will reportedly apply Google’s usual machine learning prowess to identify objects in drone footage. Google’s involvement in the project wasn’t public, but it was apparently discussed internally at Google last week and leaked. The project […]
The Defense Department is offering $ 100,000 for artificial-intelligence algorithms that can identify items such buildings and trucks in satellite images. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8c80647b7bd44d86b88077/master/pass/Satellite-FINAL.jpg
The second Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer has been unleashed upon the galaxy. Brad Oman (aka Ethan Anderton) and I have gathered in the /Film Resistance Base to record an emergency podcast, geeking out and over analyzing every little detail about this new trailer. What did we think of the new trailer? What is going on […]
There’s basically zero chance of me not doing a speed analysis of this thing. https://media.wired.com/photos/59d510aa728140345627740b/master/pass/BuggatiHP-847191718.jpg Feed: All Latest
We got to experience HireVue’s AI technology that allows companies to sort and grade video job applicants. Below is a transcript of the video. Rich Feloni: I’m Rich Feloni, strategy reporter at Business Insider. I first heard about HireVue when I wrote about Unilever’s experiment in hiring. Unilever is one of many large companies that is […]
IBM’s Watson can apparently do everything. From manufacturing and medical treatment planning to portrait drawing and filing your taxes, there seems to be no limit to what the Jeopardy-winning AI can do. And next week, Watson will be offering its services to the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Those attending the event will be able to access […]
