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Police Want to Know What Alleged Murderer’s Amazon Echo Heard, on the Night of the Crime

A reminder that our smart devices can also be used against us.

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Apple’s First Research Paper Tries to Solve a Problem Facing Every Company Working on AI

It addresses a core problem: training a machine takes a huge amount of data.

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In the Race to Build the Best AI, There’s Already One Clear Winner

Almost every major tech company is partnered up with Nvidia and uses its hardware.

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White House: AI Could Disrupt Millions of Jobs, and Policy Needs to Adjust

The spread of artificial intelligence won't be "costless," a new report says.

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Researchers Push Limits of Machine Learning by Programming Robot to Fold Laundry

It won't really save you time.

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BlackBerry Is Now a Self-Driving Car Company and Plans to Spend Like One

The company is currently testing autonomous vehicles on public Canadian roads.

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Is Cybersecurity the Next Frontier for AI?

One contractor is chasing the federal market by investing more in cyber tech.

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How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Save Lives

Think these technologies are too futuristic for the government? Not anymore.

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Microsoft’s New Plan is to Flood Your Entire Life With Artificial Intelligence

The company has released a deluge of AI-bolstered features in its operating system and standalone software.

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Ebook: 2017 Federal IT Trends Forecast

Hint: Expect cyber, data and emerging technologies such as virtual reality to remain in the spotlight, while areas like customer service will see less momentum.

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Truckers Think Automation Won’t Take Their Jobs for 40 Years. Silicon Valley Strongly Disagrees.

The disconnect about the timing for the arrival of such technology, and the political forces it may unleash, reveals a massive split in how the groups believe the transport industry will evolve.

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Uber’s New AI Team Is Looking for Shortest Route to Self-Driving Cars

Data has become the currency of artificial intelligence—conventional wisdom says the more information your machines can learn from, the better they’ll be. But what if Uber could do less with more?

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Alphabet DeepMind Invites Developers Into the Digital World Where its AI Learns to Explore

Even a fledgling AI needs a place to play.

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Video: How AI Tech Is Used to Take Down Poachers

Rangers can now see in the dark.

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Google Proved AI Can Reshape Medicine

Certain algorithms can often make a diagnosis with an accuracy on-par with medical professionals.

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Fact Check: 2016 Government and Tech Predictions

Revisiting predictions from January.

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Tech That Will Change the Customer Experience Game

Forrester Research expects augmented and virtual reality will be customer experience game-changers.

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Yes, Big Data Did Triumph on Election Day

One computer forecasting system predicted Trump’s victory—the one with the least human input.

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How Government Gets Ready for Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality

Two new digital communities will coalesce around new burgeoning technologies in an effort to promote interagency collaboration, partnerships with industry and to exchange ideas about what works.

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When Will Robots Take All the Jobs?

There isn’t much evidence from today’s statistics that human workers are on the verge of a historic shift. But just wait until the next recession.