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Microsoft’s Barrage of New Surface Products Come Into Focus

While Microsoft is expected to show off a bunch of new devices at an event tomorrow in New York City, like a lot of other launches this fall, recent leaks may have just given us a ton of insight into what might actually get announced. The latest info comes …

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Artificial Intelligence Has Become A Tool For Classifying And Ranking People

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly used to classify employees, and there's a growing fear ... it might be used to classify people in other respects. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) 2017 Getty Images Recommending content, powering chatbo…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Drones

Your UPS package is here. Just ignore that giant drone

UPS has clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin operating a “drone airline,” the company announced Tuesday.It’s the first company to receive so-called full Part 135 Standard certification for a drone service, referring to the section of re…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

The Big Nine, book review: Visions of an AI-dominated future

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Amy Webb PublicAffairs 320 pages ISBN: 978-1-5417-2441-9 £13.99 In her more paranoid books, Agatha Christie imagined that the world was being secretly and deliberately destabil…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Jimmy Carter, Longest Living Former U.S. President, Celebrates 95th Birthday

ATLANTA (AP) Jimmy Carter is celebrating his 95th birthday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he continues his humanitarian work and occasionally wades back into politics and policy debates almost four decades after leaving office. …

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Refugees Welcome

As the Art World Descends Upon London, Banksy Opens the “Gross Domestic Product Homeware Store”

As the eyes of the art world have turned towards London where the annual Frieze week has just started, a new work/installation/intervention/stunt by the UK's (or the world's) favorite art misfit has been revealed. Earlier today, locals in the Croydon neighbor…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Electric Car

Nissan IMk concept can park itself, communicate using holograms

The Nissan Leaf is the bestselling electric car in history, but Nissan hasn’t tried to capitalize on that popularity by offering more electric models. The Nissan IMk concept, however, hints at what a different kind of Nissan electric car could look like. Debu…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Paris

Gigi Hadid shuts down catwalk crasher at Chanel fashion show – Global News

A French woman in the audience at a Chanel fashion show joined the lineup of models for a brief, shining moment only to be shot down by Gigi Hadid, one of the top models in the game. Video posted online from Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday shows the woman jump…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo shows kids its autonomous cars in what it hopes will be a two-way street

A survey conducted earlier this year revealed that only 19% of U.S. adults have solid trust in the safety of self-driving cars. The results suggest that companies developing autonomous driving technology have some way to go to convince people of its safety an…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Youth activists like Greta Thunberg deserve Nobel nod: 2011 laureate

Geneva (AFP) - Energised and inspiring youth activists leading the charge on climate change and gun control would be good picks for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, according to past winner Leymah Gbowee. The Liberian community organiser and social worker, who…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Microsoft’s Barrage of New Surface Products Come Into Focus

Your UPS package is here. Just ignore that giant drone

Jimmy Carter, Longest Living Former U.S. President, Celebrates 95th Birthday

As the Art World Descends Upon London, Banksy Opens the “Gross Domestic Product Homeware Store”

Nissan IMk concept can park itself, communicate using holograms

Gigi Hadid shuts down catwalk crasher at Chanel fashion show – Global News

Waymo shows kids its autonomous cars in what it hopes will be a two-way street

Youth activists like Greta Thunberg deserve Nobel nod: 2011 laureate

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