April 29, 2020 15-Mile Ice Jam Hits Canada’s Tar Sands Capital, Causing Floods and Evacuations Fort McMurray is under evacuation for the second time in four years. The Albertan town was besieged by a huge wildfire in 2016, but…
April 29, 2020 Wednesday’s Best Deals: Nintendo Switch Lite, Anker PowerWave Wireless Charging Duo, 400 Hershey’s Kisses, Xbox One Stereo Headset, and More A Nintendo Switch Lite, an Anker PowerWave wireless charging duo, 400 Hershey’s Kisses, an official Xbox One stereo headset, and more highlight Wednesday’s best…
April 29, 2020 Facebook open-sources Blender, a chatbot people say ‘feels more human’ Facebook’s open source Blender chatbot framework achieved state-of-the-art results compared with Google’s latest Meena model.Read More via VentureBeat Check out the Finding Your Identity…
April 29, 2020 Streets of Rage 4 review — A brawl down memory lane Streets of Rage 4 walks the fine line between something familiar and something new, and it should keep fans coming back to play over…
April 29, 2020 Ruha Benjamin on deep learning: Computational depth without sociological depth is ‘superficial learning’ Ruja Benjamin urged engineers to consider historic and sociological factors when building deep learning systems in her keynote address at ICLR.Read More via VentureBeat…
April 29, 2020 Facebook releases its ‘Blender’ chatbot as an open-source project The virtual assistants that inhabit our smartphones are helpful, sure, but they’re not going to pass the Turing test any time soon. They’re designed…
April 29, 2020 Deezer tries using AI to find the naughty words in songs You normally need to listen to a song or read its lyrics to tell if it’s using explicit language, but Deezer thinks AI might…
April 29, 2020 ‘Crazy Beast’ Fossil Discovered in Madagascar Reveals Bizarre Mammal From the Cretaceous An incredible skeleton unearthed in Madagascar over 20 years ago has finally been studied in detail. The well-preserved bones reveal a “crazy beast” that was…
April 29, 2020 Shudder’s Blood Quantum Is a Classic Zombie Tale Told From a Welcome New Perspective Horror’s become more inclusive in recent years, a welcome shift for a genre that has historically favored white-centric stories. Blood Quantum, which just hit…
April 29, 2020 Google Meet Will Soon Be Free So Long as You Have a Google Account It’s no question that during the global pandemic, Google was undoubtedly unprepared for the spike in video conferencing, leaving Zoom to claim the mantle…