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I Used Alexa to Play Board Games and Now I Never Have to Play With My Family Again
Amazon Alexa turns out to be an effective and impartial ally in maintaining a competitive board-gaming…
GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool “YouTube-dl” after the Recording Industry Association…
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos | ZDNet
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more…
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
“Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of…
How to extract structured data from invoices
This blog is a comprehensive overview of techniques for structured key-value pair information extraction from invoices.…
Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
It conveys electricity in the climate of a crisp fall day, but only under pressures comparable…
It’s 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine
Redmond urges folks to apply update ASAP – plus more fixes for Outlook and software from…
The Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 is very good at cracking passwords and that’s bad news
Yet another reason to use strong, complex passwords Read more at TechRadar…
AI Is Throwing Battery Development Into Overdrive
Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding…
A powerful iPhone jailbreak also cracks Apple’s Mac security chip
The Checkm8 vulnerability, which could jailbreak generations of iPhones, has now been used against the company’s…
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper That Uses Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
ICLR 2021 paper An Image Is Worth 16×16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale suggests…
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative…
Python 3.9: What’s new and better
Major Python update brings a faster release schedule, performance boosts, handy new string functions, dictionary union…
‘The Wire’ Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests,…
MIT researchers say their fusion reactor is “very likely to work”
A series of new papers “confirms that the design we’re working on is very likely to…
It looks like Elon Musk isn’t happy about Microsoft exclusively licensing OpenAI’s text-generating software
“This does seem like the opposite of open. OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft,” Elon Musk…
NumPy’s contribution to Python is remarkable, but where it goes next could be even more so | ZDNet
NumPy, the Python package for scientific computing, is an adolescent with prospects for a prolific maturity.…
New Machine Learning Technology Turns You Into An Animated Character And Here Are 24 Of The Best Examples
New deep learning technology allows you to see how you’d look as a cartoon character, and…