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The NFL andAmazonWeb Services (AWS) todayannounced the resultsof their second annualartificial intelligencecompetition. In total, five teams split the $100K prize. And I can’t think of any reason why you should care. Up front:According to the NFL, the contest is supposed to help solve its injury problems using machine learning. Here’s what the league had to say in today’s press release: The NFL reviews game footage of all major injuries, analyzing each injury frame-by-frame from every angle, recording 150 different variables....

In the television industry, the phrase “sound is half the job” is one you hear all the time. Polishing the sound once the pictures are locked is usually the last stage of the process, and is seen as the final chance to add a bit more ‘fairy dust’ and bring everything together. Great thought is given to the choice of music, sound effects, voice over, and the overall mix, in order to complement the mood of the piece....

Anyone noticed this? I thought I might have accidentally retweeted myself earlier but after it happened four times that just isn’t a possibility. Initially I believed it to be a Tweetdeck bug (after itsupdate yesterday) but after reaching out to the team, they reported that it’s Twitter itself with thesame issue across all twitter clients. Visiting a twitter profile page won’t show any of the retweets but twitter searchesdoreveal them....

If you’re an iPhone user, check your storage now by selectingSettings, thenGeneral,and theniPhone Storage. You’ll probably see a lot of recognizable categories eating up your storage — apps, photos, and so on. But there is one, often rather large category, that may raise concerns: “Other”. It’s shaded light grey and often represents a significant proportion of the overall storage available. What is ‘Other’? For more detail, scroll down and tap the “Other” category (right at the end)....

Why it doesn’t make sense to ban autonomous weapons Acceptable use Just likefacial recognition, which is also under immense scrutiny with increased bans across the U.S., it is not the technology that is the problem — it is its acceptable use. We must define the circumstances where such systems can be used and where they cannot. For example, no modern-day police agency would ever get away with showing a victim a single suspect photograph and asking, “is this the person you saw?...