Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Remember The Alien Alloys?

Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about.
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PETER THIEL'S MINORITY REPORT
Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans To Test Its Predictive Policing Tech
theverge.com
Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about.
FROM LEGO TO AXE
Charting My Kids' Development Through Targeted Ads On Our Family Computer
slate.com
I already miss the days when I was served ads for small plastic raincoats and Spider-Man accouterments.
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Inside Amazon's Battle To Bring Conversational AI Into Your Home
wired.com
Amazon is staging a contest called the Alexa Prize — a mad dash toward an outlandish goal: Cook up a bot capable of small talk.
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OUT THERE
ALIENS & ALLOYS
Tom DeLonge Wants You To Believe
thefader.com
Tom DeLonge quit Blink-182 to become one of the world's leading UFO experts.
FRUITS OF THE WEB
'David Lynch Teaches Typing' Is The Best Thing Online This Week
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Do you wish you had the ability to type perfect sentences, guided only by the sensations from the pads of your fingertips? Do you also have a insatiable hankering for a slice of cherry pie and a cup of coffee?
ACCELERATING INTO THE CRASH
The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Anyone Thought
motherboard.vice.com
As detailed in a forthcoming paper, a group of astronomers used four years' worth of data from the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that the universe is expanding about 9 percent faster than other leading measurements predicted — a wild mismatch in a field as precise as cosmology.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
VERY, VERY DARK
Here's What A Building Painted With Vantablack, The World's Darkest Black, Looks Like
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The walls on this installation in Pyeonchang, South Korea are actually all curved, but you wouldn't know it from looking at it.
IN THE NEWS
Jared Kushner's Security Clearance Downgraded As Overseas Contacts Raise Concerns
Dick's, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles
Alabama Is Debating Quitting The Marriage Business Rather Than Issue Gay Marriage Licenses
Amazon Buys Video Doorbell Firm Ring For Over $1 Billion
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If Tom DeLonge can believe in aliens then you can make it through this week.