Los alarmistas dicen que las máquinas superinteligentes del futuro destruirán todos los puestos de trabajo. Pero por lo que hay que preocuparse es por cómo los ordenadores relativamente tontos que tenemos ahora están reestructurando la economÃa a favor de unos pocos
Source: MIT
Microsoft said it will no longer require employees to resolve sexual-harassment claims through private arbitration, a practice blamed for hiding workplace misconduct.
Source: Wired
Facebook Spaces, the virtual social hangout originally launched on the Oculus Rift, is now available on the HTC Vive VR headset. Vive owners can now create an avatar and jump into a virtual hangout with other Facebook friends.
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Source: Digital trends
Biotech is one of today’s many hot tech frontiers, but one thing holding it back is that it’s significantly less amenable to traditional computing techniques than other areas. A new startup is working on bridging the gap between the digital and the biological by creating a set of computer-aided biology design tools. It’s a prescient enough idea that it has attracted $4.5… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The Play store will be culled of older apps to improve speed and security.
Source: CNET
Happy day after Valentine’s Day.
Source: CNET
The security landscape is ever-changing. It is the most non-constant industry on the planet. New threats appear and new solutions are built to squash them. Rinse, repeat. It’s a never-ending cycle in what seems like no end in sight. What’s the promised land? Can we ever reach an end-state where all software running across the world is secure and 100 percent free of breaches? Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Creating convincing artificial speech is a hot pursuit right now, with Google arguably in the lead. The company may have leapt ahead again with the announcement today of Tacotron 2, a new method for training a neural network to produce realistic speech from text that requires almost no grammatical expertise. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The greeting process for astronauts arriving at the International Space Station is heartwarming to behold.
Source: CNET
Stitch Fix’s first earnings report is not going well for the company, as its shares went into a tailspin after a significant run up over the past month following its IPO when it delivered its results its most recent fiscal quarter.
Stitch Fix, a personalized apparel company that ships a box of recommended items that users can buy or send back, closed up just 1% on its first day of… Read More
Source: TechCrunch