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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Car sharing on campuses improves quality of life, takes cars off the road
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out why UC Berkeley has designated parking areas for Nobel Laureates: if there's one thing harder to snag than...
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Fighting crime at the intersection of science and social justice
During the past decade, law enforcement agencies across the country have confronted the alarming trend of sex trafficking. The crimes often take place in hotel...
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Stealthy destroyer ready to set sail to join US Navy
The largest and most expensive destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy once headed to sea in a snowstorm during builder trials. Now, it's heading into the remnants...
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Emirates jet crashed as gear went up for 2nd landing attempt
The pilot in last month's Emirates airliner crash landing in Dubai tried to take off again after a brief touchdown and had already begun raising the landing gear...
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Rumor patterns on social media during emergencies
A researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has developed a new methodology to track and manage rumors during emergencies, and proposes guidelines...
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The Uncanny Valley of Chatbots
In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the phrase “uncanny valley” (不気味の谷 in the original Japanese) to denote the phenomenon that when a… Continue reading on...
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Drones overfly Champs-Elysees in 'magical' Paris festival
The Champs-Elysees was the setting of a mini-air show on Sunday as amateur drone enthusiasts flew their high-tech toys over the famed Paris avenue in the city's...
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I didn’t put that there – it must have been added as part of publishing the post on Startup Grind.
Regardless, I just removed it. Continue reading on »
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Jesus story gets virtual reality treatment in Venice
Even having Jesus as its central character could not save a virtual reality biblical epic from the bile of slightly nauseous critics at the Venice film festival...
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London lab recreates horrors of war with 3D technology
Starvation, torture and rape: the grim daily realities of prisoners inside Syria's Saidnaya military prison have been recreated in harrowing 3D detail by a London...
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Summarization and Refinement Tags in Folksonomies
This paper, which I co-authored with Joyce Wang and Vladimir Zelevinsky when we were all at Endeca, originally appeared in the proceedings… Continue reading on...
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Audi, Lexus and Toyota rank highest for car-seat anchors
New rankings from the insurance industry show that the Audi Q7, Lexus RX and Toyota Prius have the easiest-to-use anchors for child seats.
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Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.
Perhaps it was added by the Startup Grind publication. Continue reading on »
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It’s certainly not the way an advisory role should work, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a…
So I agree that it’s a flag, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a red flag. Continue reading on »
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No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.
And I spent a bunch of time with their team. It was only later that they started dropping my name to VCs — in fact, after May when I’d… Continue reading on »
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Turbulence forces emergency landing in Ireland; 12 injured
A United Airlines flight bound for London made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Wednesday after severe turbulence that left 12 passengers needing...
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The quest to end lost airline luggage
Victor DaRosa stands under a scorching afternoon sun, loading bags onto a jet heading to Detroit.
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I may have been burned, but I’m not willing to let this experience make me that cynical.
I still basically trust people, and I’d like to keep it that way. But now I understand more than before why other people are less trusting. Continue reading on...
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Melinda, you’re right: it should not have taken an experience like this to teach me to be more…
careful. That said, I met the company through someone I trust, and I did spend some time with the team before becoming an advisor.Continue reading on »
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