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Fears rise in benefits system automation could plunge claimants deeper into poverty

The Guardian 14 Oct 2019

how algorithms punish the poor The UK government is accelerating the development of robots in the benefits system in a digitisation drive that vulnerable claimants fear could plunge them further into hunger and debt , the Guardian has learned....

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[Tech30] How Energos is using AI to help companies embrace sustainability in energy consumption

Your Story 14 Oct 2019

"Energos developed AI-based, edge-deployed algorithms for autonomous and proactive control of the energy flow and self-tuning. These algorithms are part of an end-to-end platform (including cloud analytics and visualisation) that can be used as is or integrated with proprietary solutions via API or standard protocols," Rajesh says....

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Trolls, conspiracy theorists, hoaxers and Trump have twisted Facebook, YouTube and the news to toxic ...

Alternet 14 Oct 2019

So do algorithms ... It was that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube developed algorithms to elevate certain types of content into your social media feed ... In response, YouTube changed their algorithm in 2015, turning down the recommendation dial for merely popular videos and cranking up the preference for videos that led people down rabbit holes....

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Everyday Supercar: The Engineer drives the Ferrari Portofino

The Engineer 14 Oct 2019

The Portofino’s engine is a development of that found in its predecessor, the California T ... It also features a new electronic control system with algorithms developed for the 488 GTB, which are said to improve response times at high input frequencies....

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New SRBMiner-MULTI CPU and AMD GPU Miner 0.1.1 Beta

Crypto Mining 13 Oct 2019

The author of the popular SRBminer CryptoNight AMD GPU miner has just updated his new mining software called SRBMiner-MULTI CPU and AMD GPU Miner to version 0.1.1 Betta adding support for a few new algorithms and some bug fixes ... The new algorithms include ... CPU-only algorithms. ... CPU + GPU algorithms.....

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Preventing digital feudalism requires government intervention

Taipei Times 13 Oct 2019

Algorithms are developing in ways that allow companies to profit from our past, present and future behavior — or what Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard Business School describes as our “behavioral surplus.” ... With big data and algorithms, tech companies have both accelerated and inverted this process....

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BLOC GUI Miner for Easy Mining of CryptoNight Coins with CPU and GPU

Crypto Mining 12 Oct 2019

The project is being developed by Bloc.Money (BLOC) (CryptoNight Heavy-Haven algorithm), so by default it starts by offering you to create a BLOC wallet if you do not yet have one, or mine BLOC if you do, but you also have another option to mine for other supported CryptoNote/CryptoNight crypto coins....

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Artificial Intelligence & DoD

Federal News Radio 12 Oct 2019

Among the changes is a focused organizational structure and key champions supporting AI development and deployment across the Department of Defense, including the Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Tea, (aka Project Maven) and the Joint AI Center (the JAIC)....

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Ultra-thin lenses could eliminate the need for smartphone camera bumps

Digital Photography Review 12 Oct 2019

However, there's also a drawback to these developments ... Flat lens developed by researchers at the University of Utah, photo ... As part of the project the team also developed a fabrication process using a new type of polymer and algorithms than can calculate the exact geometry required for these microstructures....

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So what about ethics?

The Daily Californian 11 Oct 2019

A few years ago, I was shocked to hear about a Google employee who tweeted about how the algorithms in Google Photos had inappropriately classified his Black friend as a gorilla ... Unifying conscience and product development doesn’t just entail checking off items such as data privacy, algorithmic fairness and user safety in the very last step....

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Everyone is your boss when you’re an Uber driver … or a game developer

Polygon 11 Oct 2019

“The only game over state in Neo Cab is getting fired, and it can happen at any time with a sustained sub-5-star rating,” says Patrick Ewing, creative director at Neo Cab developer Chance Agency, over Twitter messages ... The more wishlists a game is on, the more likely it is to get a boost in the algorithm, developers tell Polygon....

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First autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin developed

India TV 11 Oct 2019

Scientists have developed a system combining artificial skin with control algorithms and used it to create the first autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin ... The skin cells themselves were developed around 10 years ago by Cheng, Professor of Cognitive Systems at TUM....

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$6.3 million DARPA grant boosts spinal repair research

The Brown Daily Herald 11 Oct 2019

Over the next two years, the researchers hope to gain insight into the signaling process of the spinal cord and develop algorithms to mimic these signals in patients with spinal cord injuries ... But they hope to one day use the data to develop therapeutic devices to help patients with spinal cord injuries, many of whom are veterans....