When Amazon Echo records an alleged murder, the privacy debate opens again

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A year ago there was a murder in Bentonville, Arkansas. The peculiarity of this event is that at the home in which there was had installed a number of smart devices, and including an Amazon Echo who police could help solve the case.

The security forces have requested access to Amazon to give them access to recordings that were made since that Amazon Echo at the time of the facts, but the company led by Jeff Bezos has refused, something that raises new doubts in this hyper was. Can authorities access such private data if necessary?

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TCEC: The world chess championship that no human could win

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A few days ago, the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen has re-validated his title as world champion chess against Sergey Karjakin: after 12 conventional items had to be held for an extension to items semi-fast, and it was in that duel in which finally Carlsen managed to win against his rival.

These great teachers are among the best in the world, but neither they nor the former masters of the whole story could do much in that other world championship called Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) in humans even competing. It is reserved for machines, or rather, to chess engines that compete with each other and that would leave very bad place to any human player.

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DeepMind is already learning to play with physical objects … Yes, as a small child!

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The artificial intelligence is like a small child, his way of discovering the world is what is the scope and tools that offer to open to the world. Google knows that with DeepMind, artificial intelligence platform, go step by step, and today are adopting a learning method based education used in children.

Although DeepMind is already a power play and won the Go, plus it was already preparing for his next challenge in StarCraft II, the platform should start with the basics, which is able to identify objects and their properties in order to take Other types of decisions based on experiences.

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Artificial intelligence is already preparing for the complex art of lip-reading

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Lipread is not a simple task, who say pursue it professionally guarantee results ranging from 20% to 60%, a very large variation as there are many factors involved in the reading is appropriate and serve To determine with certainty what was said.

This could end up in a not too distant future when systems based on artificial intelligence can perform this task automatically, where the deep learning plays a key role in being able to manage a lot of data and ‘learn’ with the passage of weather. Now a project developed by the University of Oxford brings us to that reality.

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Sales of tablets fall back, but Amazon and low cost fare better

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Keeps getting more interesting to see how sales are going tablets and computers with that sort of convergence that occurs in convertible or touch devices like the Surface Studio, and seeing that computers no longer essential especially in the creative sector and gamer. This time we have data on the sale of the first by IDC, and what we see is that the low cost tablets are becoming increasingly hollow even if the market falls.

The report is specifically the third quarter of 2016, reflecting a decrease of 14.7% over the same period in the previous year. A trend that is drawn for months and watched the last February by the same firm, at which time the decline over the previous year was somewhat lower, about 10%.

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What is Zcash? Why many see this cryptocurrency the perfect substitute for Bitcoin?

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Users, investors and even the very Edward Snowden, everyone seems excited about a new cryptocurrency who is born today, but it takes months causing a stir in the network. It is called Zcash, and promises to be an alternative to Bitcoin caring privacy of users while offering as a real business for investors.

Zcash born from Zerocoin project, which started after being a layer of anonymity for Bitcoin cryptographic eventually became an independent cryptocurrency. As expectations are many and it can from now you hear talk enough of it, we are going to tell what exactly Zcash and what are their fundamental differences with Bitcoin.

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How Apple Products Enhance Teaching and Learning

For generations, schoolchildren used to walk to the school house with books, a small slate and an apple for the teacher. Now the Apple is for both the teacher and the student with Apple products that can enhance the classroom. You can do virtually anything on an iPad and a Mac, from delivering lectures, taking notes, creating projects, presentations, and instructional videos. Part of instilling information is creating an impression, and Apple products will allow your students to engage in educational experiences they will never forget. 

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The worst fiscal year Apple iPhone sales fall for third consecutive quarter

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Apple is releasing the financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter, keeping the line of analyst forecasts where the iPhone still does not rebound and presents its third consecutive fall , leading to the company present a decrease in income compared to the previous year presented.

In total, Apple is showing revenues of 46,852 million dollars, representing a decline of 9% over the same period last year, thus maintaining the trend we saw a year ago when apparently the company reached the ceiling of its growth and that in the previous two quarters has been reflected with declines in almost all products.

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Leeco going to win big US: Smart TVs, new mobile, bike with Android and autonomous car

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The promise of the arrival of Leeco America met in the summer, when the company said it would reach the new continent, specifically the United States during the month of October. Today the wait finally ended and the great Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi easily rivaling revealed its full range of possibilities that will be available in the West.

And it must be said that nothing is Leeco kept up his sleeve. No, the company makes available to the US market an autonomous car, two powerful and very cheap smartphones and even a bicycle that has Android operating system, plus some other interesting gadgets. Let’s do a review of all this aggressive bet.

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If you want to play the computer in the TV lounge, attentive to Samsung: Steam Link on their TVs

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Samsung likes to add services and features to their TVs to try to make a difference with competitors, mainly focused on LG. The next thing we will see – the Koreans have not yet been delivered – is the integration of technology Steam Link in their new TVs.

What does this mean? Therefore, be able to play on the big screen with what we have running on your computer. Valve is what has discussed the possibility at the conference Steam Dev Days that took place in Seattle, and so have given visibility specialists on the subject as Steam Spy. We’ll have to wait for an official announcement for details about models, dates, and possibilities.

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