police robot told woman to go away after she tried to report crime – then sang a song 1984, ai, bias, ethic, fail, technology Police robot told woman to go away after she tried to report crime – then sang a song
the project jengo saga: how cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won! ethic, hope https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/
biohackers are pirating a cheap version of a million-dollar gene therapy genius, hack, health, medical https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614245/biohackers-are-pirating-a-cheap-version-of-a-million-dollar-gene-therapy/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1574271235
‘rick and morty’ season 4 on pornhub says a lot about the future of piracy genius, piracy https://www.inverse.com/article/61064-rick-and-morty-season-4-pornhub-stream-reddit-free?utm_campaign=inverse&utm_content=1574201638&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=facebook
‘don’t leave campus’: parents are now using tracking apps to watch their kids at college app, privacy, surveillance https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/dont-leave-campus-parents-are-now-using-tracking-apps-watch-their-kids-college/
audio samples from “transfer learning from speaker verification to multispeaker text-to-speech synthesis” sound, technology https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adaptation/
airbnb bans ‘party houses’ following fatal shooting fail, wtf Airbnb Bans ‘Party Houses’ Following Fatal Shooting
MIT made an army of tiny, ‘virtually indestructible’ cheetah robots that can backflip and even play with a soccer ball apocalypse, dystopia, hopelessness, robot https://www.businessinsider.com/mit-mini-cheetah-robots-backflip-jump-play-soccer-video-2019-11?IR=T
amazon’s AI rewrites ‘millions’ of alexa user commands to reduce defects by 30% 1984, ai, amazon, know, privacy, sound, surveillance, technology Amazon’s AI rewrites ‘millions’ of Alexa user commands to reduce defects by 30%