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Narro Reading of How Nvidia’s ‘brains’ are dominating the self-driving race

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The Santa Clara-based chip company, best known for its video gaming processors, has quickly transformed into one of the leading companies driving the autonomous vehicle industry.

Linux and macOS malware threats tripled in 2016, according to report by https://is.gd/zIM0Hk

A recent report from the online threat testing group AV-Test showed some interesting new information, mainly focused on the safety of the internet for platforms like Windows and Android.

According to the report published, Linux and macOS saw the largest gains in new threats, with Windows dropping 15% from the previous year.

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Narro Reading of A Remote Chinese Province Uses Its Climate To Grow A Big-Data Industry

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Southwest China’s Guizhou province is one of the country’s poorest, most remote regions. But Guizhou has some unique advantages, which it is trying to use to transform itself into a big-data hub.

Narro Reading of AI will help us download meeting notes to our brains by 2030

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The internet is overflowing with tips on how to hack your health. From increasing cognitive function by drinking butter-spiked coffee to tracking sleep, stress, and activity levels with increasingly sophisticated fitness wearables, ours is a culture obsessed with optimizing performance. Combining this ethos with recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, it’s practically inevitable that the next frontier in achieving superhuman status lies in the rapidly developing field of brain augmentation.

Narro Reading of Android’s problems with malicious apps continues

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Google scans every app on the Play Store for malicious content, yet some manage to slip through

Narro Reading of Columbus could be the next startup city

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Ever since I wrote about the Midwest last year I’ve been keeping my eyes on Columbus. I decided to hold a small pitch-off to meet some of the startups I saw..

Ubuntu 17.10: Finally, an exciting Ubuntu release by https://is.gd/ePcNMx

The days of the boring Ubuntu releases are over. The release of Ubuntu 17.10 was going to be the final iteration to include the ousted Unity desktop interface.

Instead of following the pattern Ubuntu has held since it attempted to bring convergence to the Linux desktop, Canonical is going to jettison its in-house desktop earlier than originally scheduled.

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Narro Reading of Against objectivity

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Editor’s note: Tom Warhover is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. From 2001 to 2017, Warhover was also executive editor of the Columbia Missourian, a community newsp…

Narro Reading of The Problems I Want AI To Fix

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Looking through my RSS feeds, the media releases I receive in my email, and the headlines in the tech press and on social media, there’s one thing that…