AI & RoboticsNews

AI designed this gin, but would you drink it?

Two years ago, I owned a bar with over 300 different gins — one of the largest collections of juniper-flavored spirits at any establishment in the United States. None of those gins was designed by a computer, a fact that my bartenders would likely have explained was for…
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Pixel 4 XL ends up barely behind iPhone 11 in battery stress test [Video]

The worst aspect of Google’s 2019 flagship line is the battery life, but it’s been well-known since day one that the larger Pixel 4 XL fares better. Now, a battery test puts the Pixel 4 XL against the iPhone 11, and the results are very surprising. PhoneBuff, the same YouTuber who put the Pixel and iPhone in a performance test earlier this month, is back with a…
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ComputersNews

Surface Laptop 3 review (15-inch): Bigger, but not always better 

The 15″ Surface Laptop 3 is a bit of a chameleon. It looks a lot like 13″ Surface Laptop that we know and love, but under the hood it’s another story entirely. Microsoft worked together with AMD to create a custom Ryzen chip with Radeon RX Vega graphics. For the first time, there’s an ultraportable Surface with a decent GPU! But what does that actually mean? Well…
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AI & RoboticsNews

As AI grows, users deserve tools to limit its access to personal data

My name is John. My name is John Connor, and I live at 19,828 Almond Avenue, Los Angeles. My name is John Connor, I live at 19,828 Almond Avenue, Los Angeles, and my California police record J-66455705 lists my supposedly expunged juvenile convictions for vandalism, trespassing, and shoplifting. Which of these levels of personal detail do you feel comfortable sharing with your smartphone? And…
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