by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Sep 24, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
When Amazon released the Echo smart speaker in 2014, people still marveled at the convenience of voice-controlled computing. Now that the novelty has worn off, they are more likely to grumble about how often Alexa gets confused.Now, Amazon has a plan to make Alexa...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Sep 24, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Facebook’s artificial intelligence researchers have a plan to make algorithms smarter by exposing them to human cunning. They want your help to supply the trickery.Thursday, Facebook’s AI lab launched a project called Dynabench that creates a kind of gladiatorial...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Sep 23, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
On the second day of the WIRED25 three-part virtual speaker series, topics ranged from the disastrous effects of the Anthropocene to the importance of journalism in an authoritarian regime. Today’s premise: how to make our communities, systems, and planet more...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Sep 22, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
“Large format reduces all the ‘inactive’ materials, like packaging. So pack-level energy density will improve and cost will come down,” says Shirley Meng, a materials scientist who runs the Laboratory for Energy Storage & Conversion at the University of...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Sep 21, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
On Saturday, President Donald Trump declared that his months-long drama with TikTok had ended in success, calling an agreement made between the social media company, Oracle, and Walmart a “great deal for America.” Within 48 hours, Trump had reversed course. TikTok’s...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Sep 20, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Li Xian, who works at a publishing company in Shanghai, says the Chinese mobile-payments app Alipay is indispensable. Over the past week she’s used it to order and pay for dinner through a delivery service, buy movie tickets, pay her utility bills, and rent a bike....
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