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If you like this, check out ourTumblr Tuesdayfeature. What do you look at when you first meet a handsome young man? His butt, his eyes, his biceps? Hearst, the media conglomerate behind Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, ELLE and O, The Oprah Magazine launched its first iPad only magazine in August calledCosmo For Guys(CFG) with the viraliPad Head Girlvideo, which garnered over 1 million YouTube hits. For its latest content promotion, Hearst has released a new viral video called “What Girls Look At....

This article is part ofour reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. In a paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature last week, scientists at Google Brain introduced adeep reinforcement learning techniquefor floorplanning, the process of arranging the placement of different components of computer chips. The researchers managed to use the reinforcement learning technique to design the next generation of Tensor Processing Units, Google’s specialized artificial intelligence processors....

Google is being fined €2.4 billion (£2.1 billion) for hindering competition in the EU after a 2017 decision has beenupheld on appealby the general court of the European Union. This is a saga dating back over 15 years, in which the European Commission has been accusing the tech giant of using its search results to give preferential treatment to its comparison shopping service over those of competitors. The fine, of which a share will directly goto the UKby virtue of the EU withdrawal agreement, is also a vindication of the long fight against big tech by competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager....

It’s been another year of insane coverage from CES. We’ve seen some great things, but the number of great things were heavily diminished by the number of “oh, me too” products on the market. In 2011, we saw so many companies doing the exact same thing (and many of them doing it poorly) that it’s hard to even view this year’s CES in a positive light. Is the innovation gone? Has the consumer electronics market become so single-minded that there’s simply nothing left to do?...

Commercial spaceflight companies such as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are now offering exclusive opportunities for celebrities and civilians to travel to space. Traditionally, astronauts have been subject torigorous trainingand medical scrutiny before going to space, and the risk of death from natural causes was considered remote. But in this new era of space tourism, it appears medical screening may notbe carried out, and onlyminimal pre-flight trainingprovided. With a wide variety of people now going to space, and the prospect inthe coming yearsof humans establishingbases on the Moonand beyond, it raises an important question: what happens if someonedies in space?...