You’ve probably never heard of Sverker Johansson, but you probably should have. He is, afterall, the most prolific WIkipedia author on the internet—having written 2.7 million articles for the online encyclopaedia. Read more…
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One Man and His Bot Have Written Almost 10% of Wikipedia
This morning at the annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft showed off a pretty impressive advancement in its AI tech. An app, entitled Project Adam , is poised to identify all of its surroundings just like a Fire Phone without the merch hooks. The app is still in development but shows promising results. Read more…
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Microsoft’s AI Is On Its Way to Identifying the Whole World
Getting live, free, broadcast TV on your computer isn’t difficult—you just need the right TV tuner to get the job done. Last week we asked you for your favorites , then looked at the five best TV tuner cards (or peripherals.) Now we’re back to highlight your favorite. Read more…
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Most Popular TV Tuner: SiliconDust HDHomeRun Plus
Health and fitness monitoring is helping us all look after ourselves a little better, but there’s one stumbling block: calorie intake is still self-reported, making it laborious and often inaccurate. GE, however, thinks it has a way to change that. Read more…
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GE’s Made a Microwave That Can Measure the Calories on Your Plate
Windows: If your mouse is lagging in your favorite PC games, Microsoft has a free tool that can fix it. Read more…
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Banish Mouse Lag in Video Games With Microsoft’s Fix It Tool
Electricity bill got you down? Blame your cable box or PlayStation or printer or refrigerator or any of your smart, networked devices that have a gentle-sounding but energy-sucking “standby mode.” A new report from the International Energy Agency puts the energy from networked devices worldwide at 616 terawatt-hours. That’s more than the entire energy consumption of the United Kingdom. Read more…
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Your Cable Box Is Wasting Absurd Amounts of Energy and Money
rudy_wayne (414635) writes A Goldman Sachs contractor was testing internal changes made to Goldman Sachs system and prepared a report with sensitive client information, including details on brokerage accounts. The report was accidentally e-mailed to a ‘gmail.com’ address rather than the correct ‘gs.com’ address. Google told Goldman Sachs on June 26 that it couldn’t just reach into Gmail and delete the e-mail without a court order. Goldman Sachs filed with the New York Supreme Court, requesting “emergency relief” to avoid a privacy violation and “avoid the risk of unnecessary reputational damage to Goldman Sachs.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails
Have you been listening to SOMETHING LOUD? If so, you might have a ringing in your ears—but what, exactly, causes it? Read more…
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What Makes Your Ears Ring?
The footprint of Manhattan’s been expanding since the 17th century, when early New Yorkers began their first project to infill its shoreline. A huge part of the island we know today is built on artificial pilings. Now, it might get its biggest expansion in years. Read more…
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A Massive New Levee Could Add Two New City Blocks To Manhattan
Ever wished you could tap the “Change Camera View” button in real life to switch to a third-person view? These guys made it happen. Sure, it requires the user to wear an Oculus Rift and a big ol’ dual camera rig built into a backpack — and sure, it’s probably only fun (and not nauseating) for about a minute. But it works! Read More
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Clever Oculus Project Lets You Live Your Life In Third Person