Re: Congratulations to the team of DeepMind
I quite agree. If the machine invents a game all by itself, then it's AI.
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Go No! Google cyber-brain bests top-ranked human in ancient game
Ad-slinger Opera adds ad-blocking tech to its browser
German lodges todger in 13 steel rings
NASA sets the date for Martian robot drilling rig to lift off
Thursday 10th March 2016 07:34 GMT
Re: Opportunity
Yeah, it at least feels like you'll find more on this issue reading 'The Martian' than anywhere else. I wonder if it would be possible to repel dust with a special coating or an electrostatc field - or failing that, setting up some sort of dust trap close to the solar cells in the hope that it would at least reduce the amount of dust settling on the cells. The cutest solution would be a little robot with a little broom and dustpan, of course. Also, I wonder what they use as a Mars dust analogue in testing?
NAO slates UK.gov's 'haphazard' sci-tech money-chuck plan
Thursday 10th March 2016 12:09 GMT
Toys for the minister to stand in front of
How about an array of 1,000 waterproofed PIs controlling lots of blinkenlights, immersed in a big plexiglass tank with sharks?
But seriously, how about making sure that BIS has the resources (i.e. qualified manpower) to evaluate the projekts it may or may not fund first?
R you ready? Open source stats come to Visual Studio
Go DevOps before your bosses force you to. It'll be easier that way
Thursday 10th March 2016 08:37 GMT
Re: Comprehension gaps
Nobody really knows 'what's it all about' - that's the problem with buzzwords*. It's also a chance: the chance to keep the bits that work by pointing out that these are esentially DevOps in principle anyway, so we're there at least halfway already. And getting rid of the bits that don't work / getting missing bits in by pointing out that this is what must be done in order to go full DevOps all the way. Repeat process at next buzzword cycle. I hate the word, but managing your boss must be done proactively.
* Buzzwords - the go-faster-stripes of the IT industry!
Chinese boffins grow new eye lenses using stem cells
Airbus' Mars plane precursor survives pressure test
IBM pimps Watson out to Hilton robot for concierge duty
Thursday 10th March 2016 07:07 GMT
"deeper guest angagement"
Is it just me or does that sound a bit, I dunno, kinky?
@Crazy Operations Guy: if you read this, any suggestions for modding the robot to make the stay at the Hilton* more, uh, pleasureable?
* Didn't they once use the slogan 'It happens at the Hilton' once? I think I've still got a postcard from the Berlin Hilton with that on it somewhere.
Home Ebola testing with a Tricorder? There's an app for that
Woz waxwork weady to woll
Don't snoop on staff via wearables, says Dutch privacy agency
Big-screen Skype gets small farewell note
Wednesday 9th March 2016 09:34 GMT
"What Microsoft seems to have missed in its assessment of the market is that a Skype call on the TV kind of gets in the way of watching sports or Netflix."
Also, at least some of the 'smart' TV sets won't work with bog-standard peripherals like, say, a Logitech webcam - no no no, it has to be a proprietary thingy at four times the price. (I'm looking at you, Sony!)
Boffins bust biometrics with inkjet printer
Wednesday 9th March 2016 08:27 GMT
Re: It very much depends on the reader
A smartphone with a fingerprint sensor is a gadget with another gadget, and once again, you get what you pay for.
That being said, I'm not a big fan of biometrics. The data has to be stored, and once it gests compromised, you'd have to change your password biometrics to be secure. But no biggie, eyeballs grow back, don't they?
Boffins give amputee the finger – a bionic touch-sensitive fingertip
Wednesday 9th March 2016 08:08 GMT
"The team also tested the device out on non-amputees for correlation. Surprisingly, the intact testers had a lower success rate in detecting texture, reporting a 77 per cent success rate."
Not really surprising, IMO. In the non-amputees the data from the sensor is additional data as the native sensors are still active. They are active and transmitting all the time, you're just usually not aware of it because your brain/mind filters the data.
The scientists saw brain activity in exactly the spot where you'd expect for handling touch sensations.
Brains are amazing, aren't they? AI has a long way to go yet.
A very good description about what goes on in your mind when you touch and feel things can be found in a book about motorcycling by Dr. Berndt Spiegel, "The Upper Half of the Mororbike".
Knackered Euro server turns Panasonic smart TVs into dumb TVs
Solus: A welcome ground-up break from the Linux herd
FBI says NY judge went too far in ruling the FBI went too far in forcing Apple to unlock iPhone
US taxmen pull plug on anti-identity-theft system used by identity thieves
2016: Bad USB sticks, evil webpages, booby-trapped font files still menace Windows PCs
NASA preps stadium-size sandwich bag launch
Wednesday 9th March 2016 02:16 GMT
Re: Retrieval?
Pics look to me like there is a parachute between the instrument package and the ballon. My guess is they monitor the balloon's position and detatch the balloon part when they want to retrieve the instruments - provided there is a suitable landing zone (the OZ outback should do). The sandwich bag will be lost, but as Queasy Rider has already pointed out it wouldn't be re-use able anyway.
Is there anything left to ask Bill Gates? (Other than gissus a million?)
Bill Clinton killed off internet taxes, says Australian politician
Here's one obscure little EU data protection rule that would be good
US slaps trade ban on ZTE over Iran links
Tuesday 8th March 2016 12:23 GMT
Maybe this helps: Countries do not have friends. Countries have interests. (Attibuted to Henry Kissinger, and I for one wouldn't put it past him. Oh, Henry Kissinger, how I'm missing yer...)
Yelp-for-people app Peeple is back – so we rated Julia, its cofounder
Google vendor security review tool goes open source
Flying blind: F-35's radar software fails in the air
GCHQ: Crypto's great, we're your mate, don't be like that and hate
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