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• Researchers were about to solve AI’s black box problem, then the lawyers got involved

  17-12-2019 22:49
  
  AI has a “black box” problem. We cram data in one side of a machine learning system and we get results out the other, but we’re often unsure what happens in the middle. Researchers and developers nearly had the issue licked, with “explainable algorithms” and “transparent AI” trending over the past few years. Then came the lawyers. What’s a black box? Black box AI isn’t as complex as some experts make it out to be. Imagine you have 1,000,000
  
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• Sony’s adding back buttons to the PS4 controller via this official attachment

  17-12-2019 19:16
  
  Sony today revealed an official attachment for its Dualshock 4 controller, called the Back Button Attachment. This adds, as the name suggests, a button and a pair of paddles to the back of the controller. The new addition is attached to the Dualshock via the port on the bottom of the controller. The paddles can be mapped with up to 16 actions from elsewhere on the controller, such as Triangle or RI. The round OLED display tells you what each button is mapped to at that momen
  
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• Believe it or not, trading your data for concert tickets or a five-star meal is possible – today

  17-12-2019 18:32
  
  It’s quickly becoming a very poorly-kept secret: the real currency online is data. Companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook make billions by collecting and/or selling your data, and use that consumer data to serve you ads that encourage you to buy their products. But with recent high-profile data breaches and the increased scrutiny on Facebook in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, governments and businesses are scrambling for ways to both better protect consumer da
  
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• Communication in the Age of AI

  17-12-2019 17:23
  
  I spent many years working with start-ups and large corporations, and invariably they all spent a large proportion of their budgets getting their message across to consumers and other businesses. Yet while there is no doubt that external communications are important, I found that the most successful companies were, in fact, the ones which dedicated just as much time, effort, and resources (if not more) to get their internal communications right. Because it’s all well and good projecting t
  
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• Bitcoin’s failing price could be caused by $2B Chinese Ponzi scheme dumping its crypto

  17-12-2019 15:32
  
  Bitcoin‘s price could be held down by scammers seeking to liquidate at least $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency belonging to one of the largest ever Ponzi schemes, PlusToken. That’s according to blockchain firm Chainalysis, which says it’s tracked roughly 45,000 BTC ($302 million) and 800,000 ETH ($102 million) sent from PlusToken’s operational wallets to individual addresses owned by the scammers themselves. The firm noted — almost ominously —
  
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• Bitcoin ransomware peddlers are publicly shaming victims for not paying

  17-12-2019 15:05
  
  Bitcoin-hungry ransomware attackers are reportedly threatening to expose victims who fail to pay the requested ransom. According to KrebsOnSecurity, one particular ransomware group has created a public site identifying companies that decided to quietly rebuild their operations instead of coughing up the requested ransom payment. The report says that criminals behind the Maze Ransomware — credited with the Pensacola Cyberattack, which saw hackers demand a $1 million ransom — have lis
  
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• Who’s your cloud security expert? Become your own with this $49 training.

  17-12-2019 15:00
  
  The truth is, cloud security is a new frontier for most IT pros and leaving your security measures up to the base level protections of your provider might not be good enough. With the training found in The Essential Cloud Security Certification Bundle ($49, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), you’ll know how to keep a cloud-based network secure and responsive, no matter its size.
  
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• 8 biggest AI trends of 2020, according to experts

  17-12-2019 14:54
  
  Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest moving and least predictable industries. Just think about all the things that were inconceivable a few years back: deepfakes, AI-powered machine translation, bots that can master the most complicated games, etc. But it never hurts to try our chances at predicting the future of AI. We asked scientists and AI thought leaders about what they think will happen in the AI space in the year to come. Here’s what you need to know. AI will make healthca
  
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• Cosmology in crisis as evidence suggests our universe isn’t flat, it’s actually curved

  17-12-2019 13:24
  
  No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun replaced Earth at the centre of the solar system. And the unusual orbit of Mercury provided a spectacular confirmation of the theory of general relativity. In fact, our entire understanding of the universe is built on observed, unexpected anomalies. Now our new paper, published in Nature Astronomy, h
  
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• A tech apocalypse is inevitable without the humanities

  17-12-2019 13:08
  
  If recent television shows are anything to go by, we’re a little concerned about the consequences of technological development. Dystopian narratives abound. Black Mirror projects the negative consequences of social media, while artificial intelligence turns rogue in The 100 and Better Than Us. The potential extinction of the human race is up for grabs in Travellers, and Altered Carbon frets over the separation of human consciousness from the body. And Humans and Westworld see trouble ahea
  
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• Gift the avid audiophile in your life these headphones from Shure

  17-12-2019 13:00
  
  Right now, Shure is offering some serious discounts on four of their most popular headphone models to help bring back the magic of sinking into your musical favorites just like they deserve. 
  
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• Twitter scumbags scam 64-year-old lady out of $158K Bitcoin fortune

  17-12-2019 12:02
  
  Two men have pleaded guilty to defrauding a 64-year-old woman out of more than $158,000 worth of Bitcoin, The Oregonian reports. The brothers, Jagroop Singh Khatkar and Karanjit Singh Khatkhar — from British Columbia in Canada — admitted to conspiring to commit wired fraud and money laundering earlier this week. They each face a potential two years in prison when they are sentenced on March 17. The brothers created a fake Twitter account, impersonating Hong Kong-based cryp
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price dives below $7,000’

  17-12-2019 11:50
  
  Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Jane Didion used to say: Crack open this tasty lobster! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, December 16 2019, at a price of $6,932. That’s a notable 3.09 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$221.18. It was the lowest closing price in two hundred and nineteen days. We’re
  
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• JBL is crowdfunding solar-powered headphones to kill battery anxiety

  17-12-2019 10:01
  
  Portable audio gear has been getting better and cheaper over the past few years, but JBL think it’s time to change things up by tackling a major pain point in this segment: battery life. The company is currently working on its Reflect Eternal on-ear wireless headphones, which incorporate solar charging technology, so you can juice them up just by going outside or sitting indoors in a well-lit space — no wires necessary. That’s not the worst idea I’ve heard, and JBL didn&
  
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• Microsoft wants devs to submit Chromium Edge add-ons ahead of its launch

  17-12-2019 06:33
  
  Microsoft is now accepting developers’ submissions of add-ons for its upcoming Chromium-based Edge browser, so as to extend the app’s capabilities. The move — along with the official launch of the revamped browser — could finally give it a chance to realistically compete with the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The company has been previewing a new version of its browser powered by the popular Chromium rendering engine for some time now, and it’ll roll
  
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• 2019: The year Twitch streamers jumped ship to Mixer, YouTube & Facebook

  17-12-2019 02:04
  
  This time last year, Twitch was top of the molehill when it came to game streaming. Now several of its major stars are leaving for apparently greener pastures — namely, Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook (of all things). So what brought this on? The deepest of these cuts, by far, was Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. The most popular of Twitch’s stars, Ninja quickly rose to prominence thanks mostly to Fortnite. His celebrity is such that he can appear on a Super Bowl and even my non
  
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