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<p>According to a new report from the UK-based charity Article 19 (named for one of the clauses in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), freedom of expression has reached a ten-year low globally, as a result of what the report calls “digital authoritarianism”…

Researchers at Microsoft have demonstrated a new technique called Neurosymbolic AI which has shown promising results when applied to difficult scenarios such as algebra problems stated in words. The PureAI editors were given a sneak peek at the draft of a…

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Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study

Bekk is getting in the Christmas spirit with 24 days of articles

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A Go web server with built in logging, tracing, health check, and graceful shutdown. It also includes a few demo applications showing the Go HTML temple functionality. - GitHub - photonlines/Go-We...

5-min read To: Omid R. KordestaniExecutive Chairman Twitter, Inc.1355 Market Street, Suite 900San Francisco, CA 94103 December 6, 2019 Mr. Kordestani, A part-time CEO who is relocating to Africa? Enough already. My name is Scott Galloway (@profgalloway).…

To advance research on AI that can understand others’ points of view and collaborate effectively, Facebook AI has developed a bot that sets a new state of the art in Hanabi, a card game in which all players work together.

There’s an old apartment building in South Minneapolis that looks totally out of place. It’s in a residential neighborhood with small bungalows and some auto body shops. And in the early 1900s, it used to be part of an amusement park called Wonderland. The…

I did a detailed privacy check of the app TikTok and its corresponding website. Multiple law infringements, trust, transparency and data protection breaches were found.I provide all technical an

John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ exploded a discipline. But his greatest legacy might be a quieter project of re-enchantment

Magic Leap just announced that they’re in the midst of closing a Series E round of funding, but it sounds like they’re going to have to clinch that investment with some pretty troubling sales numbers for their only device on the market. The Information‘s…

MIT researchers developed a circuit that uses a nanometer-thin magnetic domain wall in magnetic material to enable precise control of computing binary bits with magnetic spin waves. This advance could make practical “spintronics” devices that compute more…