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The winners of the 2018 Turing Award have been announced.

Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio — sometimes referred to as the “godfathers of artificial intelligence” — have won the 2018 Turing Award for their work on neural networks. The three artificial intelligence pioneers' work basically laid the foundation for modern AI technologies.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, artificial intelligence experienced a renewed popularity within the scientific community. However, by the mid-90s, scientists had failed to make any major advancements in AI, making it harder to secure funding or publish research. Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio remained undeterred and continued with their work. Read more...

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"On My Block" stars Jason Genao and Brett Gray try to guess movie titles just by looking at gifs. Read more...

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Going on a late night McDonald's food run may be a lot different in the future. McDonald’s has purchased Dynamic Yield Ltd., an Israeli artificial intelligence company. McDonald's said it plans to use Dynamic Yield’s technology to change the drive-through experience. As long as they don't mess with our McGriddles it should be cool though.  Read more...

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Avengers: Endgame will run 182 minutes, easily beating the previous MCU record of 149 minutes set by 2018's Avengers: Infinity War. The new film hits the big screen on April 26. Read more...

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Verizon is going to release an app that an block robocalls. It is expected to be available for download very soon. It will be a free version of Verizon's current call-filtering app. Read more...

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If you're learning another language, it's time for your daily reminder — have you practiced your Español today? Your Français? Deutsch? If not, you better watch out. The Duolingo Owl may be coming for you. 

Duolingo is a language-learning app that takes a gamification approach to reaching goals in your target language. Their mascot is a cutesy little owl named Duo, who sends you daily reminders to practice. 

But what if you happen you miss a day, or forget? Duo is not a very forgiving beast. 

The Duolingo Twitter account recently shared a teaser image for an upcoming app update that gave off pretty ominous vibes.  Read more...

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Looking for a tablet on a budget? The Fire HD 8 is one of the most useful and stylish tablets out there and it's now on sale for just $49.99, or $30 off its retail price on Amazon. 

Note: This deal is only for Prime members. If you don't have Amazon Prime yet, you can read about all of its benefits and sign up for it here.

Typically going for $79.99, the Fire HD 8 features a solid 8-inch display with a screen resolution of 1280 x 800 at 720p. The tablet is ideal for portability with its total weight coming in at just 12.8 oz, while its 1.5GB of memory and 16GB of storage (expandable up to a whopping 400GB via microSD card) is great for consuming content with ease.  Read more...

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