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Alphabet — Google’s parent company — has an artificial intelligence company, called DeepMind. The company has developed an AI that has managed to learn how to walk, run, jump, and climb without any prior guidance. The result is as impressive as it is goofy. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook Feedburner
GUEST: The initial head-scratching phase over the Amazon-Whole Foods deal is giving way to some aha moments as commentators absorb the idea of a mostly online retailer buying something as tangible and localized as an organic grocery chain. They’re pointing out that Amazon will be acquiring a first-class logistics operation, a global distribution hub for […]
Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor JUNE 23, 2017 ROCHESTER, N.H. —There’s an essential skill not being taught enough in classrooms today, say a growing number of American educators. That skill is thinking. “Most teachers never really ask students to think very deeply…. Most of what is assigned and tested are things we ask students […]
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Parents who have concerns about their children being taught about Islam should be banned from pulling them out of religious education (RE) lessons, according to the Church of England. Senior Church of England official Derek Holloway said withdrawing children from RE lessons could leave them without the skills required to live in a diverse society […]
When viewers stumble upon Girls five or ten or twenty years from now, they’ll be watching a different show than the one that ended its six-season run last night with a rather unceremonious episode called “Latching.” The experience of watching Girls these past five years has been inseparable from the experience of reading about the […]
Hot on the heels of the company’s art and music generation program, Project Magenta, a pair of Google researchers have taught a neural network to sketch simple drawings all on its own. The researchers relied on data from Quick, Draw!, an app that asks users to draw a simple item and then guesses at what […]
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Creating levels for video game franchise Dance Dance Revolution is a time-consuming task. The step charts used by the game are essentially choreographic scores, instructing players where to place their feet in time with the music. Usually they’re written by hand, either by the game’s developers or fans using open source DDR port StepMania. Now, […]
Last December, I bought a pair of jeans from Uniqlo. That was the only time I purchased clothing from a brick-and-mortar store in all of 2016. For the past few years now, I’ve done most of my clothes shopping online. Not just because it’s convenient, but because the internet provides me with fashion alternatives that […]
