The internet is so taken aback by good manners that a tweet about a British grandma who used “please” and “thank you” as bookends to a Google search has achieved viral status.
We all have a family member who may be a little less...
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The search for exoplanets goes cold as Kepler enters emergency mode
The Kepler spacecraft is in trouble again. (credit: NASA)
Something's gone wrong aboard the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft. On Friday evening, mission manager Charlie Sobeck announced that Kepler had entered "emergency mode." This is the lowest functioning operation mode and, critically, consumes the most fuel.
The last time NASA contacted Kepler, on April 4th, the spacecraft was in...
SETI Institute launches radio search for alien life amid 20,000 red dwarf stars
The SETI Institute is shifting the focus of its search for extraterrestrial intelligence to places that could harbor life that’s not as...
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
The game of Go has long been viewed as the most challenging of classic games for artificial intelligence owing to its enormous search space and the difficulty of evaluating board positions and moves. Here we introduce a new approach to computer Go that uses ‘value networks’ to evaluate board positions and ‘policy networks’ to select moves. These deep neural networks are trained by a...
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
The game of Go has long been viewed as the most challenging of classic games for artificial intelligence owing to its enormous search space and the difficulty of evaluating board positions and moves. Here we introduce a new approach to computer Go that uses ‘value networks’ to evaluate board positions and ‘policy networks’ to select moves. These deep neural networks are trained by a...
Report: Google paid Apple $1B in 2014 for using its search engine on iPhone
Google paid Apple $ 1 billion in 2014 to use its search engine on the iPhone, according to court records dug up by Bloomberg News. The disclosure provides new details about the complicated relationship between Apple and Google, whose iOS and Android operating systems are rivals in the...
Internet of Things security is so bad, there’s a search engine for sleeping kids
Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse vulnerable webcams.
The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash register cameras in retail stores, according to Dan Tentler, a security researcher who has...
A decade later, Redfin wins patents on key online home search tools
Founded in 2004, Redfin was an early pioneer in using online tools to find and buy homes. And now the company has the patents to prove it. More than a decade after submitting the initial applications, the Seattle-based company has been quietly winning patents in areas of technology that have...
‘Innovation studio’ Ivy Softworks unveils first product Atlas, a search engine for your digital life
Stealthy Seattle startup innovation studio Ivy Softworks is lifting the lid off its first set of products that aim to be somewhat of a search engine on steroids for your digital life. Atlas Informatics, the first company spun out of Ivy Softworks, is “solving a problem everyone has,” according to Jordan Ritter, the Napster co-founder who...