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We’ve all been guilty of over-sharing our thoughts and actions in 140-character messages, no matter how banal or benign they may be. But there’s a certain phrase, “TMI” that prohibits even the crappiest of tweeters from sharing their bowel movements. Or so I thought… Today I stumbled uponWonder-Tonic‘s “Who’s Pooping onTwitter” website, which is literally a constantly refreshing (okay, actually not so refreshing) feed of tweets involving pooping, crapping, shitting, dumping, etc....

A total of 37 US states, includingCalifornia, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, and Washington have launchedan antitrust lawsuitagainst Google last night. The case argues that the firm uses its position of power to distribute apps through the Play Store, and charges a hefty cut from app developers. Notably, Google charges 30% fees for in-app purchases from developers — which is the same as the Apple App Store charges. In March, the Big G slashed commissions fordevelopers earning less than $1 million annually to 15%....

Corporations are going through rough times. And I’m not talking about the pandemic and the stock market volatility. The times are uncertain, and having to make customer experiences more and more seamless and immersive isn’t taking off any of the pressure on companies. In that light, it’s understandable that they’re pouring billions of dollars into the development of machine learning models to improve their products. But there’s a problem. Companies can’t just throw money at data scientists and machine learning engineers, and hope that magic happens....

If you’ve kept a keen eye on the release of RIM’s new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, you will have noticed that the device is currently due to launch one month later than was initially stated by the Canadian smartphone manufacturer. As always, the rumour mill has whirred into action, suggesting numerous reasons for the delay – one being that touchscreen supply has reduced RIM’s ability to fulfil initial orders for the device, partly attributing the blame to Apple whichreportedly tied up 60%of the supply of the panels for other manufacturers....

Why AI and human perception are too complex to be compared The complexity of human and computer vision In the seemingly endless quest to reconstruct human perception, the field that has become known ascomputer vision, deep learning has so far yielded the most favorable results.Convolutional neural networks(CNN), an architecture often used in computer vision deep learning algorithms, are accomplishing tasks that were extremely difficult with traditional software. However, comparing neural networks to human perception remains a challenge....