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  • Honda and MIT work together to create AI that is fully self-study

    In the field of artificial intelligence and so-called deep machine learning there is already a lot of groundwork. However, all the currently available self-learning neural networks have one important point: they are not completely independent. That is, they need to initially set certain parameters by which they will work. At the same time to learn…

  • The Psychology of Faking Your Own Death

    Death The Psychology of Faking Your Own Death Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo) Janet BurnsToday 10:00amFiled to: PseudocideFiled to: Pseudocide Pseudocide Fakes Crime Psychology 1 Edit Embiggen Send to Editors Promote Share to Kinja Move ad slots Go to permalink DeathThis week Gizmodo explores death and deadly things, in all their forms—the physical, the digital, and…

  • Please Put the MacBook Air Out of Its Misery

    Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) Without fail when someone tells me they are going to buy a MacBook Air, I will cringe and reach for them—begging them not to make such a poor decision. The MacBook Air is a decrepit dinosaur—a relic of another time—and when Apple announces a new wave of devices Tuesday in Brooklyn,…

  • Google will punish manufacturers who won’t update Android for 2 years

    Every month the Google security team releases a batch of new patches for Android and every month manufacturers and operators to a greater or lesser extent successfully trying to release these updates on a target device. This is a difficult and old problem. In the hands of the journalists of The Verge got confidential contracts,…

  • 5G-flagship of Samsung is one of the three

    The Samsung Galaxy for many years are the most popular smartphones. Especially users waiting for the announcements of the flagship Galaxy S, which traditionally is manifested most impressive innovation from a market leading smart phones South Korean tech giant. In the Network appeared new details relating to reward innovations that Samsung users will appreciate. Among…

  • Man Arrested for Attempted Theft of Magna Carta After Display Smashed With Hammer

    Photo: Wiltshire Police On Thursday, a 45-year-old man wielding a hammer reportedly smashed through a glass screen protecting one of only four copies of the original Magna Carta. The incident, which predictably has a lot of people making National Treasure jokes, happened at Salisbury Cathedral in the UK. The man, who is not Nicolas Cage,…

  • How Industrial-Scale Tar Production Powered the Viking Age

    “Viking Ships Before a Rocky Coast,” by Michael Zeno Diemer (1911)Image: Wikimedia Vikings acquired the capacity to produce tar at an industrial scale as early as the 8th century AD, according to new research. The protective black goo was applied to the planks and sails of ships, which the Vikings used for trade and launching…

  • Warner Bros. and Turner Are Killing One of the Internet’s Last Good Things

  • This Dictionary Time Machine Tells You Which Words Were First Printed the Year You Were Born

    Screenshot: Merriam-Webster In 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added words like beerfest, jumbotron, modder, antifa, binge-watch, and nothingburger, reflecting the awful, awful times we live in. But have you ever wondered what words officially entered our lexicon the year you were born? Probably not, but it turns out Merriam-Webster’s Time Traveler tool is a fascinating…

  • Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

    Photo: Netflix There are many, many jobs that are much worse than working at Netflix. But based on an extensive profile of the company’s culture, the streaming company certainly seems to have built a unique version of corporate hell. Citing interviews with more than 70 current and former employees (some on the record, some off),…