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• Digital nomad survival tips you can use anywhere (Part 2)

  17-12-2016 12:49
  
  I just got back from Mexico City, which tourists usually avoid because they don't feel safe there. It's a shame, too. Mexico City is awesome -- and can be safe.
  Three years ago, I wrote a piece here called "Digital nomad survival tips you can use anywhere." The column was based on everything I had learned (often the hard way) about how to stay safe while living and traveling abroad since 2006.
  In the past three years, however, new tech has emerged that enhances safety even further. And I've lea
  
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• California demands a defiant Uber get self-driving cars off city streets

  17-12-2016 02:51
  
  A standoff between Uber and the State of California became more serious on Friday when Uber rejected a demand to get permits for its self-driving car program and the state fired back with a threat of legal action.The spat began earlier this week when Uber launched a fleet of self-driving cars in San Francisco. The company had not obtained autonomous driving permits for the cars, and California's Department of Motor Vehicles asked the company to stop the service until they were issued.On Friday,
  
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• Microsoft opens dataset for teaching computers to talk

  17-12-2016 02:39
  
  Microsoft is trying to help create machines that can have conversations by releasing a new set of data for free.
  The data, called the Microsoft Machine Reading Comprehension dataset (MS MARCO) is a bundle of 100,000 English queries along with corresponding answers. It's supposed to help people build artificial intelligence systems that can understand human written language.
  The company is opening up its dataset in the hope that Microsoft can work with other organizations on making machines bett
  
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• You can find out how your CPU compares to AMD's Ryzen for free

  17-12-2016 00:18
  
  The Ryzen hype train has left the station, and to build up its speed, AMD has actually released the source file it used to demonstrate just how fast its upcoming eight-core Summit Ridge CPU is.
  This doesn’t usually happen, but because Blender is open-source and free, we now have a way for both haters and fans to test their own PC against the first Ryzen-based chip.Blender is a popular and free renderer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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