Tristan Greene

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• Pro baseball league uses AI umpire for the first time, coach gets ejected for arguing with it

  You're outta here! Professional baseball's first AI umpire – in the form of an automated strike zone – didn't take long ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google expected to achieve quantum supremacy in 2019: Here’s what that means

  Google's reportedly on the verge of demonstrating a quantum computer capable of feats no ordinary classical computer could ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI fails to recognize these nature images 98% of the time

  You can't fool all the people all the time, but a new dataset of untouched nature photos seems to confuse state-of-the-art ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to go the fuck to sleep

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• We gave US police, ICE, and CBP AI without regulations in 2016: Now it's 1984

  This weekend's ICE raids are essentially a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the government's surveillance state. The same AI-powered ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Pablo Escobar's brother escalates flamethrower feud with Elon Musk, threatens Tesla takeover

  Elon Musk can add the Escobar family to his list of detractors after notorious kingpin Pablo's older brother, Roberto Escobar, today ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Samson's G-Track Pro is the ultimate microphone for podcasts and game streaming

  Samson's G-Track Pro is a gumbo-esque mashup of microphone, audio interface, and onboard mixer. It's a bit of an oddity, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: The Insta360 EVO is among the best VR cameras under $500

  Insta360's EVO is a nifty little 360 cam that transforms into a 180-degree VR camera. It's not the first device out there ...

  • Tristan Greene

• TNW's mid-2019 guide to virtual reality hardware

  Virtual reality is a booming technology. Like artificial intelligence and blockchain, it's on a meteoric rise and every big ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Microsoft's Windows 1.11 is an Upside Down mess

  Microsoft today announced that it was the year 1985. We checked the Microsoft store to confirm this and, as Windows 1.11 ...

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• Predictive policing AI is a bigger scam than psychic detectives

  Law enforcement agencies around the world have recently begun extricating themselves from expensive, ineffective predictive ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A beginner's guide to AI: Supervised and unsupervised learning

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Tristan Greene