Tristan Greene

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• You can't offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you're on r/TheDonald

  Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses ...

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• This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site

  The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has an interesting new tactic in the war on fake news: make more of it. A ...

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• MIT built a neural network to understand pizza

  A group of MIT researchers recently developed an AI model that takes a list of instructions and generates a finished product. ...

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• Hilarious robot revenge video parodies Boston Dynamics

  Boston Dynamics creates some of the most incredible robots on the planet. From the company's back-flipping biped to the four-legged ...

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• Scientists discover infinite decay and rebirth in quantum particles

  A team of scientists recently determined certain quantum particles can regenerate after they've decayed. This has grand implications ...

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• How to read a scientific research paper

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

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• Review: Walmart’s $64 tablet is a pleasant surprise in a non-descript package

  I'm going to come right out and say it: I didn't have high expectations when I agreed to review Onn's 8-inch Android tablet, ...

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• Breakthrough research demonstrates AI can predict a psychotic break

  A trio of researchers have developed an experimental machine learning method that allows AI to listen for the early whispers ...

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• NASA research shows alien life is far less likely than previously thought

  Scientists just threw a monkey wrench in the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life by redefining what a “habitable ...

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• Big tech's AI runs on datasets labeled by marginalized people

  Capitalism has a nasty habit of anchoring those beholden to it in an equilibrium where both the very poor and the very wealthy ...

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• Sony's already won the next console war thanks to PSVR

  Sony skipped gaming's biggest event, E3, this year and Microsoft pounced. Xbox stormed the stage with a veritable bevvy of ...

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• Sweetwater Studios began in a van, now it's the heart of a $725M enterprise

  Some of the richest companies have the humblest beginnings. Google and Facebook started in dorms, Microsoft was launched ...

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