Tag: software studies
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Photos: Here’s what the new Amazon Go cashierless convenience store looks like » Amazon is getting into more brick-and-mortar stores. While the retail giant purchased Whole Foods last year, Amazon… more ›
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Amazon’s Alexa is now a feminist, and she’s sorry if that upsets you » more ›
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Google Maps’s Moat » Justin O’Beirne of San Francisco, California. Essays, book, and contact information. Over the past year, we’ve been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York,… more ›
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Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled » Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t… more ›
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Google DeepMind AI Declares Galactic War on StarCraft » Tic tac toe, checkers, chess, go, poker. Artificial intelligence rolled over each of these games like a relentless tide. Now Google’s… more ›
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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository » Early Google employees decided to work with a shared codebase managed through a centralized source control system.… more ›
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A16Z AI Playbook » Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a set of computer science techniques that, as Stanford professor Andrew Ng is fond of saying, gives your software super powers. more ›
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“Given a state-of-the-art deep neural network classifier, we show the existence of a universal (image-agnostic) and very small perturbation vector that causes natural images to be misclassified with high probability.… more ›
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Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars » Is it a silly prank, a Pagan ritual, or a genius discovery about the next era of mass transit? In a picture… more ›
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The High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase » I wanted to buy some mini marshmallows recently, so I went on Amazon. Perhaps because of their resemblance to packing material—light, bulky,… more ›