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martyb writes:IBM age discrimination lawsuit suddenly ends, suggests Big Blue was willing to pay to avoid discovery process:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Anything where we can install it and watch it change all by itself, improving upon itself and not just some random action but something which LEARNS.[Ed. note: All of the preceding is exactly as received. AI has so many branches and sub-branches (twigs?) and has evolved greatly over the years. I suspect the submitter, like most of us, has seen numerous mentions of AI in the press: self-driving cars, natural language translation, Google's Deep Mind, IBM's Jeapordy-playing computer, object recognition... but knows not even where to begin. So, fellow Soylentils, what has been helpful to you in your explorations of AI? What software can be downloaded and experimented with so as to get some hands-on appreciation for what it can do? I suspect there are many others in the community who would not mind playing around with it, too. --martyb]Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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[20200416_005831 UTC; Updated title and corrected spelling of balanceTags(). --martyb]martyb writes:Ooops! Things should be working correctly, now.tl;dr: Back on March 20th, someone tripped over a bug that appears to be in the balanceTags() routine in our Perl code. I found a way to made a quick fix to prevent its happening again, but the fix was missing a couple steps. I caught and fixed one of them, but only now just handled the other.Workaround: When writing a comment, writing or editing a journal entry, or when submitting a story, use "DEL" instead of "STRIKE" to make text look like this.This story is the result of something I learned in the process: properly notify the community of any changes to the site!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

c0lo writes:BBC: Coronavirus: US to halt funding to WHO, says Trump

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:GitHub is now free for all teams – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for both AzumaHazuki and SoyCow8192:Medical device "jailbreak" could help solve the dangerous shortage of ventilators:

takyon writes:Google wants to dump Qualcomm, launch smartphone SoC as early as next year

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Water quality could change in buildings closed down during COVID-19 pandemic, engineers say:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Tesla's robotaxi fleet will be 'functionally ready' in 2020, Musk says - Roadshow:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Scientists Discover Brightest Supernova Ever Seen:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway?:

DannyB writes:Boeing customers cancel staggering 150 Max plane orders, deepening crisis as coronavirus roils air travel:

wirelessduck submitted a link which brought us to:In a number system where the real numbers could not have an infinite number of digits, how would our physics models change?Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds:

canopic jug writes:Tom's Hardware is reporting that Raspberry Pi Foundation is increasing production of its $5 Raspberry Pi Zero to meet demand from ventilator manufacturers which are using the board in their designs. The higher end Raspberry Pi boards are also reasonable desktop units for many typical home office uses, so they are being distributed in place of laptops to many working at home for the NHS. The Raspberry Pi is a low wattage single-board computer with convenient input-output hardware suitable for embedded applications but running a full Debian-based GNU/Linux distro, Raspbian.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Heavy iron isotopes leaking from Earth's core:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Here's an unprecedented look at Apollo 13's damaged Service Module:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the moon and asteroids:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes:

Phoenix666 writes:New Atlas:

Runaway1956 writes:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/10/feds-allow-drive-up-gun-sales-ease-dealers-buyers-virus-worries/5134084002/:Feds allow for drive-up gun sales to ease dealers', buyers' coronavirus worries

takyon writes:China Develops High Capacity QLC 3D NAND: YMTC at 1.33 Tb

takyon writes:Report: TSMC CoWoS Production Line at Full Capacity as Demand Increases

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canopic jug writes:Ross Anderson, a researcher at the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, has written aboutcontact tracing in the real world enumerating in detail some of the many shortcomings with and false assumptions about contact tracing as means of fighting a pandemic.

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Firefox 75.0 has been released. From the Release Notes:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Company prioritizes $15k ventilators over cheaper model specified in contract:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:What Do the New Remdesivir Data Mean?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:Zoom admits data got routed through China - Business Insider:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Looking out at a city with no cars and realizing they were unable to help out directly with the pandemic, some artists at a Detroit advertising agency found another way to help,Originally found here, http://www.autoextremist.com/on-the-table1/2020/4/6/april-8-2020.html:[Ed note: It is a long article and, sadly, there are no anchors to permit a direct link to the quoted text. Scroll down to about the mid-point to find it. Also, emphasis from the original article is retained here. --martyb]

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Glowing silicon nanowire reveals how to put optics in your CPU:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:The Latest Hydroxychloroquine Data, As of April 11:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot right now:

An Anonymous Coward writes:China's devious move under cover of virus

acid andy writes:John Horton Conway, mathematician and inventor of Conway's Game of Life has been reported by a colleague to have died from COVID-19 at the age of 82.Conway's death has also been reported (in Italian) by the Italian website "MaddMaths!".From Wikipedia:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Meet dark_nexus, quite possibly the most potent IoT botnet ever:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:People are baiting Instacart workers with huge tips then slashing them to zero:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Citing BGP[*] hijacks and hack attacks, feds want China Telecom out of the US:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Frontier bungles redaction of network audit that it doesn't want you to see:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:COVID-19 tests are going unused due to hospital IT challenges:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Verizon's new tracking tool tells advertisers when you're looking at your email inbox: