Vernon Nivenflipped into Smart Watch News & ReviewsFitbit How Pebble smartwatches are getting a second lifeThe Verge - Jay PetersThe crowdfunded Pebble smartwatch officially died last June, but a group of dedicated Pebble fans are giving Pebbles second lives, as detailed in this great article on iFixit that you should go read. Pebble
Vernon Nivenflipped into Smart Watch News & ReviewsWearable Tech Fossil's Sport smartwatch tracks your activities and has dropped to $149windowscentral.com - John Levite The Fossil Sport smartwatch has dropped to $149 in three available colors on Amazon. Get the smart activity tracker in Hot Coral, Soft Blue, or …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Smart Watch News & ReviewsMobile Technology Fossil's latest Wear OS watches now make calls using iPhonesEngadget - Jon FingasThey're some of the first Google-powered watches that can manage the feat. Fossil has acted on its promise to show more love to iPhone users with its Gen 5 smartwatches. An in-progress software update
Vernon Nivenflipped into Fitness Trackers, Pedometers & Heart MonitorsGarmin Garmin Fenix 7: specs, design, features we’d like to see, release dategadgetsandwearables.com - Marko Maslakovic The Garmin Fenix line has become a preference for sports and outdoor enthusiasts. This is a great smartwatch which packs a whole lot of of fitness, …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Practical AIIcon version of the Flipboard logoLinguistics An analysis of gender bias studies in natural language processingnature.com O’Neil, C. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Crown, 2016). Calders, T. & Verwer, S. Data Min. …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Practical AINatural Language Processing Latent Semantic Analysis: Distributional Semantics in NLPtowardsdatascience.com - Kushal Vala Hello Folks! In this article, I will be describing an algorithm used in Natural Language Processing: Latent Semantic Analysis ( LSA ). The major …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Practical AINatural Language Processing Microsoft’s UniLM AI achieves state-of-the-art performance on summarization and language generationVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersLanguage model pretraining, a technique that “teaches” machine learning systems contextualized text representations by having them predict words based on their contexts, has advanced the state of the across
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyFake News Head fake: MIT work shows fake news detection isn't quite there yetZDNet - Tiernan Ray Efforts to detect fake news are not as advanced as they would appear, given that the best practices so far rely on pattern detection that can itself …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Practical AILanguage Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?Quanta Magazine - John Pavlus A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it's also revealed how far AI has to go. In the fall of 2017, …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Practical AINatural Language Processing Feature Engineering with NLTK for NLP and Pythontowardsdatascience.com - Alex Mitrani Last week I went over some of the basic functions of the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) for Natural Language Processing (NLP). I continued my …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Practical AIMachine Learning Emotion Recognition Using Graph Convolutional Networkstowardsdatascience.com - Kevin Shen Recently, deep learning has made much progress in natural language processing (NLP). With many new inventions such as Attention and Transformers …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Future Of The AutomobileElon Musk Why Elon Musk is wrong about LiDAR technologyTNW - Sam KamelEarlier this year, at one of Tesla’s events, the company’s famous founder, Elon Musk proclaimed that, “LiDAR is a fool’s errand,” and “Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Doomed.” We’re all big fans of
Vernon Nivenflipped into Mobile CommerceIcon version of the Flipboard logoEmail Marketing Making Friends: How Smart D2C Brands Engage Customersmediapost.com - Sarah Mahoney Like everyone else, I have an irrational hatred of some brands that stalk me online, and a soft spot for others. (Leave me alone, Home Depot. And …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Mobile CommerceAdvertising Industry How Programmatic Disruption Is Creating a Fourth Era of Digital MarketingAdweek - Rob Webster Online marketing has gone through three distinct phases so far, where innovation and economic upheaval have more or less systematically brought about …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyTurkey Erdogan’s Ambitions Go Beyond Syria. He Says He Wants Nuclear Weapons.The New York Times - By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROADWASHINGTON — Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than control over a wide swath of Syria along his country’s border. He says he wants the Bomb. In the weeks leading up to his order to
Vernon Nivenflipped into Smart Watch News & ReviewsApps Your Apple Watch is now a lot smarterCNET - by Jason Cipriani WatchOS 6 adds new features and apps that make it so much more useful.
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyRudy Giuliani Amid Ukraine scandal, Trump officials worry about Rudy Giuliani's financial motivesAxios - Alayna Treene Amid near-daily revelations of Rudy Giuliani’s “shadow” foreign policy, senior administration officials are worried that more information could …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Future Of The AutomobileTesla Roadster Tesla next-gen Roadster is ‘evolving into something better than prototype in every way’Electrek - Fred LambertIt has already been two years since Tesla unveiled the prototype for its next-generation Roadster and it will probably be another one or two years before it hit production, but it apparently will be worth
Vernon Nivenflipped into CybersecurityInformation Systems How to Build a (Nearly) Hack-Proof Password System with LastPass and a Thumb DriveLifehacker It seems like every day there's news that a new site or service has been hacked. The intruders make off with usernames and passwords, and even if …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Mobile CommerceeCommerce Amazon Declares War on Dollar Tree and Dollar GeneralThe Motley Fool - Leo Sun The e-commerce giant adds free shipping to $1 products to keep pace with dollar stores. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is often blamed for causing the "retail …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyConservative View Rand Paul Confronted In California Restaurant: 'We're Not Putting Up With Your Republican Bulls**t!'dailycaller.com - Scott Morefield Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and a senior staffer were confronted by two people while eating lunch in a California restaurant Friday. While one …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyMarc Benioff As Marc Benioff Calls For A Better World, Salesforce Lawyers Are Doing The Oppositebuzzfeednews.com - Alex Kantrowitz Silicon Valley’s virtuous one wants tech to do as he says, not as he does. This week while promoting his new book, Trailblazer, Salesforce founder and …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Smart Watch News & ReviewsGoogle Pay Permanent Proxy enables Wear OS Google Pay in unlisted countriesandroidpolice.com - David Oh Although everyone here at Android Police is passionate about Google's goodies, it is no secret how we feel about Wear OS — fundamentally flawed, …
Vernon Nivenflipped into ROBOTS IN THE HOMEBose Bose Portable Home Speaker review: Great sound, anywhereDigital Trends - Simon Cohen “It's never been easier to take room-filling sound with you, without sacrificing smart speaker features.” Very portable • High sensitivity mics • Great …
Vernon Nivenflipped into INVESTING IN STARTUPSTechnology MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolioTechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberPopular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston
Vernon Nivenflipped into Beneath the VeneerScience This Guy Just Found a Faster Way to MultiplyPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanBecause the method you learned in middle school is ridiculously slow. From grade school onward, complex multiplication has been a headache. But an assistant professor from the University of New South Sydney
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyU.S. Politics Officials View Trade Uncertainty as Biggest Global Economic RiskThe Wall Street Journal. - Paul KiernanWASHINGTON—The new head of the International Monetary Fund urged policy makers this week to undertake measures to bolster the slowing global economy and asked for a show of hands from those who planned
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyDonald Trump Donald Trump Tweets Attack Video Accusing Mitt Romney Of Being A ‘Democrat Secret Asset’The Inquisitr - Kristine Lofgren Donald Trump posted a video on Friday that called Mitt Romney, the Republican Senator from Utah, of being a “Democrat secret asset” who was trying to …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyU.S. Politics Trump bashed Obama for executive orders, but his own record is basically the sameAxios - Orion Rummler President Trump has issued 130 executive orders in his presidency so far — largely keeping pace with President Obama, except for the 55 orders he …
Vernon Nivenflipped into Truth BullyPolitics Gabbard fundraises off Clinton attack: 'I challenge her' to 'face me directly'thehill.com - Rachel Frazin Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is fundraising off her feud with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking supporters to donate to her …
Vernon NivenChuck Grassley Republican U.S. Senator Grassley: Whistleblower must be protectedReuters - by Susan Heavey
Vernon NivenDonald Trump Prosecutors agree to pause in subpoena for Trump tax returnsCNBC - Kevin Breuninger and Dan Mangan
Vernon Niven How 21 Democratic Candidates Answered Our Questions Before the DebatesThe New York Times - By SYDNEY EMBER
Vernon Niven Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”TechCrunch - Connie Loizos
Vernon NivenLaw First Amendment constraints don’t apply to private platforms, Supreme Court affirmsThe Verge - Colin Lecher
Vernon NivenEntertainment (Australia) The Best Websites You Probably Don't Know Aboutlifehacker.com.au - Nick Douglas
Vernon NivenSuccess Bad habits you must immediately break to improve your life in the next 100 daysLadders - Thomas Oppong
Vernon Niven North Korea Executed and Purged Top Nuclear Negotiators, South Korean Report SaysThe New York Times - By CHOE SANG-HUN
Vernon Niven Prisoner’s dilemma shows exploitation is a basic property of human societyMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv
Vernon NivenArtificial Intelligence Use this cutting-edge AI text generator to write stories, poems, news articles, and moreThe Verge - James Vincent
Vernon Niven The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant ToForbes - Michael Shellenberger
Vernon Niven Trump and Democrats Agree to Pursue $2 Trillion Infrastructure PlanThe New York Times - By ANNIE KARNI, EMILY COCHRANE and ALAN RAPPEPORT
Vernon Niven How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printoutMIT Technology Review - Will Knight
Vernon Niven No More Time on the Couch: The Rise of Digital Mental Health Therapeuticsobserver.com - Arick Wierson
Vernon Niven Deep Learning And The Limits Of Learning By Correlation Rather Than CausationForbes - Kalev Leetaru
Vernon NivenConsumer News My Refrigerator Is Making Smelly Ice Cubes. What's Wrong?consumerreports.org - By Consumer Reports
Vernon Niven Street Artists Turn Utrecht Apartment Building Into a Giant Bookcase Featuring Residents' Favorite Bookslaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Vernon Niven Three Of The Best Resources On How To Write Powerful Headlines And Subject HeadersForbes - TJ McCue
