“A Muslim woman has filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press and AP photographer Mark Lennihan over a photo of her wearing a headscarf while sitting in a Starbucks. The image was sold as a stock photo and used in an opinion column that asked Muslim women not to wear the hijab.”
Read: Muslim Woman Sues Associated Press Over Photo of Her Wearing a Headscarf
“Google has taken a brilliant and unexpected step toward building an AI with more humanlike intuition, developing a computer capable of beating even expert human players at the fiendishly complicated board game Go.”
Read: A Google DeepMind Algorithm Uses Deep Learning and More to Master the Game of Go
“Microsoft’s brain is now available for anyone to use in their apps. The company has open sourced the artificial intelligence framework it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications.”
Read: Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google
“On a recent, chilly Sunday morning, children ranging in age from 4 to 6 waited with their parents in the cafeteria of a Brooklyn school. Each wore a name tag.”
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“Face recognition, once the preserve of the few, the likes of intelligence and security services, is now made available to the masses as well, thanks to OpenFace.”
“Google wants to teach you deep learning — if you’re ready that is. The tech giant has launched a free course explaining the machine learning technique that underpins so many of its services.”
Read: Google just published a free, three-month course on deep learning
“The first “teaching machine” was invented nearly a century ago by Sydney Pressey, a psychologist at Ohio University, out of spare typewriter parts. The device was simple, presenting the user with a multiple-choice question and a set of answers.”
“According to an industry insider, the dearth of Rey merchandise for The Force Awakens was no accident — it was an intentional decision. The inside source shared their story with Michael Boehm at Sweatpants and Coffee, speaking on the condition of anonymity.”
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“Howard University fights to join the tech boom. Photographs by Christopher Gregory From Legand Burge, the chair of Howard University’s computer science department. In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University’s campus in Washington.”