Bill Gates Dismisses Elon Musk’s AI Apocalyptic Scenario
Elon Musk’s doomsday predictions regarding Artificial Intelligence aren’t something Bill Gates believes in, making the Microsoft boss yet another sane voice in [...]
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Microsoft and Facebook Join Forces, Share AI Reseach
From now on, Microsoft and Facebook will be working together to provide an open source AI resource repository, which should help the community develop more and more advanced [...]
Norwegian authorities change their safe Windows phones for Android
When it comes to equip official authorities with the right tools, the reliability of a smartphone brand or an operating system, depends on many factors, not every one of them [...]
This is Lenovo’s Windows Holographic VR headset
Lenovo just showed us its first VR headset, a prototype device that works with Microsoft’s Windows Holographic platform. Next to other tethered PC headsets like the Oculus [...]
Apple leaps into AI research with improved simulated + unsupervised learning
Six researchers from the company’s recently formed machine learning group published a paper that describes a novel method for simulated + unsupervised learning. The aim [...]
Data breach at LinkedIn’s Lynda.com affects 55,000 accounts
Microsoft is getting a little bit more than it bargained for now that its acquisition of LinkedIn is official. LinkedIn’s training site Lynda.com is notifying users of [...]
Microsoft is creating talking bots that will call you on Skype
Microsoft has spent a large part of this year focusing on its bot efforts within Skype. While a number of new messaging bots like Expedia and UPS are starting to appear in [...]
The Fantastic 4 against propaganda
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Microsoft: 4in1 solution for your anti-propaganda needs. If these 4 companies join up for a reason, we might expect something radical, [...]
The Cyber-Secret Futurist 