Microsoft pioneers new 'machine teaching' technology to bring machine learning to the masses

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Cure is a word thats dominated the rhetoric in the war on cancer for decades. But its a word that medical professionals tend to avoid. While the American Cancer Society reports that cancer treatment has improved markedly over the decades and the five-year...

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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier - that is, until something goes wrong. While only about a third of people say that technology as a whole stresses them out, that figure more than doubles when it comes to specific technologies, according...

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Tag(s) : #cloud computing, #gadgets, #Lifestyle, #stress, #wifi, #Work and Play

Any adult who has attempted to learn a foreign language can attest to how difficult and confusing it can be. So when a three-year-old growing up in a bilingual household inserts Spanish words into his English sentences, conventional wisdom assumes that...

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Right as the U.S. government shut down on Oct. 1, the new national health-care exchange went live at healthcare.gov. Intended for people who want to buy health insurance under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the website failed from the start....

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Tag(s) : #affordable care act, #Barack Obama, #Dev & Design, #health care, #obamacare, #Politics, #U.S., #US & World, #US Government

We humans like to think of ourselves as on the top of the heap compared to all the other living things on our planet. Life has evolved over three billion years from simple one-celled creatures through to multicellular plants and animals coming in all...

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They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but that's not the case for a man who married his smartphone in Sin City last month. Yes, you read that right. It's come to this. But he did it to prove a point that society is obsessed with staying connected,...

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Tag(s) : #amazing

Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or skipping from book to screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to our fingertips, the more we stand to lose The first time my father looked at me was on a screen, using technology developed...

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Tag(s) : #Books, #Computing and the net, #Culture, #Jonathan Safran Foer, #Society, #Technology

Drones are getting easier to use and are coming equipped with better cameras that allow more photographers to take advantage of them. Here are 12 of the best accounts pushing the limits of drone photography by showing you how different the world looks...

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Tag(s) : #dones, #instagram, #photo-stories, #Watercooler

In 1983 the landmark publication of the report A Nation at Risk seemed to shake our nation from its slumber regarding the scary truth about education in America. It detailed how there were serious problems in schools in this country and recommended fixes...

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