Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast included a spot for Amazon’s Alexa, in which Alexa’s name was said some 10 times. But the Amazon Echos in people’s homes didn’t even blink, because they were programmed to look for a particular digital fingerprint in the wake-up word, and ignore it.
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A tussle this week between prominent investors and Apple Inc. over iPhone use by young people comes amid a nascent re-evaluation of the smartphone’s social consequences within the industry that spawned it.
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This is an interesting discussion by Björn Hartmann on managing spatial data with machine learning. I found this fascinating given the amount of spatial data collected by our (U.S.) government. The tools available are fun to explore. Be sure to click on the 4th image to open the interactive dashboard. – Jeff
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Scientists in the Large Hadron Collider’s LHCb collaboration recently announced spotting a new arrangement of three quarks, called the Ξcc++ or the “doubly charged, doubly charmed xi particle.” It had an up quark and two heavy charm quarks. But “most of these particles” with three quarks “containing two heavy quarks, charm or beauty, have…
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If you use a bunch of Firefox extensions, be forewarned – nearly all legacy extensions are not compatible as of this posting. Some of the most popular ones have been updated already, but those amount to only a few. – Jeff
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