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Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing some of the conversational AI tech it is using to power its Portal video chat display and M suggestions on Facebook Messenger.

Uber’s open-source distributed training framework Horovod is joining the LF Deep Learning Foundation to support its work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.

As deep learning moves from the lab into production use in mission critical fields from medicine to driverless cars, we must recognize its very real limitations as nothing more than a pile of software code and statistics, rather than the learning and thinking intelligences we describe them as.

Machine learning and deep learning is the hot breakthrough in computing and a well-hyped topic. How “intelligent” your systems are can be a significant factor in sales and many a mobile device is sold as “personal AI” for your convenience.

If you’ve ever needed to quickly remove the background of an image you know it can be tedious, even with access to software like Photoshop. Well, Remove.bg is a single-purpose website that uses AI to do the hard work for you.

Guys, in 100 million years we're going to be so sad.

Good. Whoever lives by the credo of "do no wrong" needs to meet more web developers.

How Google Made the Web Slower and Asserted Dominance

Every move you make, every step you take I'll be watching you

*Puts down phone for 5 minutes* I can totally do this. *10 minutes pass* What time is it?

Time to run unknown .exe

And other things to argue about.

A migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS: A Guardian tale.

A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images.

That's 2,314 billion gigabytes.

Samsung today introduced its latest smartphone, the Galaxy A8s. It is Samsung's first smartphone with an Infinity-O display, which has a nearly edge-to-edge, uninterrupted design beyond a small hole for the front-facing camera. It is also Samsung's first smartphone without a headphone jack

There are so many big changes coming in Xamarin.Forms 4.0 that Microsoft has issued an earlier-than-usual preview to gather feedback on the cross-platform UI toolkit for .NET developers coding iOS and Android apps.

Assume you have some news page that contains a header with the actual news title, some highlight image and a lot of body text.

One of the challenging things about evaluating React Native as a technology is that there are multiple ways to use it, each with their own pros and cons.

AOSP has been around for more than 10 years and visibility into the project has often been restricted to the Android Team and Partners.

T-Mobile has denied an allegation that it lied to the Federal Communications Commission about the extent of its 4G LTE coverage.

Apple is starting to send unwanted push notifications to iPhone users, including ones designed to promote its own Carpool Karaoke show — even though Apple’s TV app never expressly asks for permission to send promotional notifications, and even though Apple’s App Store guidelines forbid developers from sending unsolicited promos.