Regator, an Atlanta based news directory and search engine has just launchedRegator Breaking Newsto improve the process of gathering and finding news for journalists and bloggers so they can spend more time reporting and writing and less time searching for the right stories to cover. “The goal of Regator Breaking News is simple: to help writers spend more time reporting and writing, and less time searching for the right stories to cover....

Sadly it’s not uncommon here in Silicon Vally to hear people say they will only name their children with names where the dotcom is available. Often talking about unique spellings to common names, such as making Mark into Maarkh and Jessica would be spelled Jesshika, you get the idea. So it was just a matter of time untill the idea became a website. Babysquatter, discovered over onBridal Musings, is a tool that tells you which domain names are available that match your future childs name....

Starting a company of your own can be a very intriguing idea. And while you might choose to start the business right away, a number of things could stop you or slow down the process. The best example that we might find is when starting a private limited company, is the best corporate structure to start. You are protected from direct liability and the business stands as an entity of its own....

Last week, I wrote an analysis of “Reward Is Enough,” a paper by scientists at DeepMind. As the title suggests, the researchers hypothesize that the right reward isall you need to create the abilities associated with intelligence, such as perception, motor functions, and language. This is in contrast with AI systems that try to replicatespecific functions of natural intelligencesuch as classifying images, navigating physical environments, or completing sentences. The researchers go as far as suggesting that with well-defined reward, a complex environment, and the right reinforcement learning algorithm, we will be able to reach artificial general intelligence, the kind of problem-solving and cognitive abilities found in humans and, to a lesser degree, in animals....

This article is part of ourreviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has proven thatcomplicated board and video gamesare no longer the exclusive domain of the human mind. From chess to Go to StarCraft, AI systems that use reinforcement learning algorithms have outperformed human world champions in recent years. But despite the high individual performance of RL agents, they can become frustrating teammates when paired with human players, according to a study by AI researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory....