This post was originally published on this site Here is what you need to know. China hits the US with retaliatory tariffs. China announced tariffs on 106 US goods including soybeans and automobiles in retaliation to the recent tariffs...
This post was originally published on this site President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., responded to Tuesday’s shooting at YouTube HQ by defending the NRA and attacking the media. The NRA is a target for gun-control advocates in...
This post was originally published on this site Sam and Diana used to work for accountancy firms KPMG and EY. Now they run an arts and crafts space for adults. Their creative space is called M.Y.O. (Make Your Own)....
This post was originally published on this site Apple pays female employees up to 26% less than men in some parts of its UK and European operations. In the company as a whole, women earn 5% less than men....
This post was originally published on this siteEarlier this year we launched a research report on probabilistic programming, an emerging programming paradigm that makes it easier to describe and train probabilistic models. The Bayesian probabilistic approach to model building...
This post was originally published on this siteUpdate: I have a new post on Using three.js for 2D data visualization. It contains all the stuff I learned while working on the project and is the place you should look...
This post was originally published on this siteIn an almost Freudian twist, a play on Vatermord by an artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero has dethroned its “parent,” AlphaGo. In March 2016, AlphaGo defeated 18-time world Go champion Lee Sedol. At...
This post was originally published on this siteWe believe in fiction as an important tool for imagining future relationships to technology. In our reports on new technologies we feature short science fiction stories that imagine the possible implications. The...
This post was originally published on this siteAs you are preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, just know that a robotic arm is holding the spoon at the Institute for Culinary Education (ICE); progress is relentless. “The Chef Watson cookbook...
This post was originally published on this siteWe end 2017 with a round-up of some of the research, talks, sci-fi, visualizations/art, and a grab bag of other stuff we found particularly interesting, enjoyable, or influential this year. Stars from...