Image: Carnegie Mellon University We’re at the halfway point of the epic 20-day, 150,000-hand “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” Texas Hold’em Poker tournament, and a machine named Libratus is trouncing a quartet of professional human players. Should the machine maintain its…
Reuters/Fredy Builes Marijuana’s official designation as a Schedule 1 drug — something with “no accepted medical use” — means it is pretty tough to study. Yet both a growing body of research and numerous anecdotal reports link cannabis with several…
It’s actually happening. Donald Trump will order the construction of his ill-conceived Mexican border wall, White House officials said Tuesday night. More details will come Wednesday, Trump announced in a tweet … before he deleted it. Was he suddenly gripped…
There are now as many internet users in China as there are people in Europe Image: Hu yan/Imaginechina By Yi Shu Ng2017-01-25 07:35:33 UTC China now has 731 million people online — or nearly the entire population of Europe, according…
Google is intending to expand the dev tools available to makers using the Raspberry Pi microprocessor to power their projects this year — potentially offering software tools for face- and emotion-recognition, speech-to-text translation, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, predictive analytics and more. The company…
This isn’t some neat CGI wallpaper or a bit of deep space photography. It’s a gorgeously detailed picture of a practical model, hand-made and then intricately shot to a make it look just as good as any scifi vista you’ll…
Last year we heard that Fox had ditched Hellfire and begun development of a new X-Men TV show from Matt Nix. But even though Nix has been talking about his series for ages, it’s only just been given a pilot…
If you were asked to point to the trench that housed the first Death Star’s exhaust port, where would you point? If you pointed at the big obvious seam running along the Death Star’s equator, I am sorry, but you…
Season two of HBO’s The Leftovers wrapped up in December 2015, which sure seems like long ago. But doomsday has never felt more relevant, so today’s first teasers for season three—and with them, an airdate for the premiere, couldn’t come…
You no longer have an excuse not to play a Yakuza game. Read more… Source: io9