DeepMind takes a shot at teaching AI to reason with relational networks

Reasoning is one part of the puzzle to general intelligence Analysis  The ability to think logically and to reason is key to intelligence. When this can be replicated in machines, it will no doubt make AI smarter.…

Zangeres Taylor Swift zet muziek na drie jaar weer op streamingdiensten

Zangeres Taylor Swift zet na drie jaar haar muziek weer op streamingdiensten. Swift was een van de bekendste artiesten die openlijk bezwaar maakten tegen het aanbieden van muziek op streamingdiensten en noemde het 'moderne piraterij'.

Intel hint op patentinbreuk met x86-emulatie Windows 10 voor ARM

In een bericht over de naderende verjaardag van de x86-instructiesetarchitectuur, waarschuwt Intel voor het emuleren van x86. Volgens het chipbedrijf kan emulatie tot patentinbreuk leiden. Microsoft en Qualcomm werken aan x86-emulatie voor Windows 1…

In detail: How we are all pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered – by online biz all day

Cracked Labs shines light on surveillance capitalism The data collection industry, fattened on info snippets gleaned from social media and mobile devices, affects people's lives but operates without meaningful scrutiny.…

Yahoo! shareholders! sign! off! sale! to ! Verizon!, which! sharpens! axe!

Purple Palace as we know it to close on June 13th Yahoo!'s shareholders have formally approved the sale of the company's operating businesses to Verizon.…

Gebruikers klagen over niet-vastgelijmd scherm in BlackBerry KEYone

Gebruikers van de nieuwe smartphone BlackBerry KEYone klagen over een scherm dat loskomt doordat het niet is vastgelijmd aan de rest van het toestel. Het is onbekend of het een productiefout is in weinig exemplaren of dat alle KEYones ermee te maken…

Cortana in Windows 10 krijgt reminders op basis van beeldherkenning in foto's

Microsofts digitale assistent Cortana krijgt in Windows 10 een functie om gegevens van posters van bijvoorbeeld evenementen te halen en gebruikers daaraan te herinneren. De functie duikt op in een build van Windows 10 in het Insiders-programma.

Science megablast: Comets may have brought xenon to Earth

Noble gas found on 67P by Euro probe Rosetta Scientists working on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe mission have found xenon on Comet 67P – a discovery that introduces a link between the cosmic rock and Earth for the first time.…

Microsoft Azure adds OpenBSD support. Repeat. Azure adds OpenBSD support.

Version 6.1 awaits your pleasure. Redmond's also upgraded its FreeBSD to v. 11 Microsoft's extended BSD support in Azure.…

Microsoft Azure adds OpenBSD support. Repeat. Azure adds OpenBSD support.

Version 6.1 awaits your pleasure. Redmond's also upgraded its FreeBSD to v. 11 Microsoft's extended BSD support in Azure.…

Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos will visit the White House for tech council meeting

Alphabet offloads bot businesses Boston Dynamics and SCHAFT

Who's the cat who won't cop out when there's danger all about? SoftBank. Damn right Google parent Alphabet has offloaded its robotics businesses SCHAFT and Boston Dynamics to SoftBank.…

Dell's losses widen in first post-EMC quarter, but nobody's worried

Servers soar, PCs pop, debt drops and all agree 'reasonable progress' has been made Dell Technologies has posted its first set of quarterly results and declared “reasonable progress” has been made towards integrating EMC and Dell.…

Comey says Trump's a liar, he's a leaker – while Prez's lawyer calls foul

Testimony paints lurid picture (and we’re not talking golden showers) Analysis  Former FBI director James Comey today spoke in public for the first time about his relationship with President Donald Trump, and he didn't stint in calling out the Leade…

Human-free robo-cars on Washington streets after governor said the software is 'foolproof'

We must have missed the bit where code bugs were extinct The governor of Washington has green-lit the testing of self-driving cars on the US state's public roads, with or without human operators, calling the technology "foolproof."…

Ex-NSA bod sues US govt for 'illegally spying' on Americans: We drill into 'explosive' 'lawsuit'

Friend, do we have a bizarre legal battle for you Analysis  In an extraordinary and expansive lawsuit, former CIA and NSA contractor Dennis Montgomery has teamed up with the lawyer who brought down the NSA's mass surveillance operation – Larry Klaym…

20 Apple China staff collared for allegedly flogging customers' info

$7.4m fraud ring traced back to iGiant's database Twenty Apple employees in China have been arrested by cops investigating the lifting and reselling hundreds of thousands of pieces of customers' personal information.…

Teen texted boyfriend to kill himself. It worked. Will the law change to deal with digital reality?

Situation does not look good for Michelle Carter Prosecutors in the US who want to send 18-year-old Michelle Carter to jail for her boyfriend's suicide have rested their case after three days in court.…

Taylor Swift is putting her albums back on all streaming services

Facebook verbetert schaalbaarheid machine learning voor beeldherkenning

Facebook heeft een methode ontworpen om de trainingstijd voor machine learning terug te brengen bij het verhogen van het aantal gpu's. Een test bij een dataset van 1,2 miljoen verlaagde de trainingstijd van meerdere dagen naar een uur, met behoud va…

Uh-Koh! Apple-Samsung judge to oversee buggy Intel modem chip fight

Class-action complaint against Arris Surfboard broadband boxes widens A class-action lawsuit claiming Arris's gigabit Surfboard modems buckle under light pressure is gathering in size and pace – once again putting the spotlight on Intel's much-malig…