AI beating humans? Not in my lifetime, says Google’s cloud chief

By Martyn Williams | Follow Senior U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service | Nov 16, 2016 5:16 PM PT Diane Greene, senior vice president of Google, speaks at the Code Enterprise conference in San Francisco on November 15, 2016. Credit: Martyn

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Excess saffronisation of education might not be ideal for children

The RSS has endorsed re-writing textbooks and upholding Sanskrit, citing the importance of science, atomic concepts and plastic surgery in ancient India practiced by the Hindu geniuses. RSS RELATED STORIES First online ‘MOOC’ course to be launched at Oxford University

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Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10 will not be sold in Europe

After many rumors and leaks, the Alcatel Idol 4s running Windows 10 Mobile was finally made official a couple of days ago. The smartphone pairs most of the specs of the Android-running Idol 4s with Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system,

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Toshiba OCZ’s TL100 review: A budget SSD that’s not a bargain

There are two types of products that send the PCWorld lab into retest mode: those that perform better than expected, and those that perform worse. Toshiba’s 2.5-inch, TLC NAND-based, OCZ-branded TL100 definitely falls into the latter category. As a matter

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Not robocop, but robojudge? AI learns to rule in human rights cases

An artificial intelligence system designed to predict the outcomes of cases at the European Court of Human Rights would side with the human judges 79 percent of the time. Researchers at University College London and the University of Sheffield in

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Google Photos begins creating animations from videos, gets smarter about fixing sideways pictures

The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha may not conduct the matriculation examination in February 2017 due to elections being held at the same time. According to a report published in Press Trust of India (PTI),  BSE President Sushant Das said,

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Samsung SM-G532F to be called Galaxy Grand Prime+, not Galaxy Grand Prime (2016)

Remember the Galaxy Grand Prime (2016)? The existence of this successor to the originalGalaxy Grand Prime from 2014 has first been outed by a benchmark database back in August. Then last week we heard that it would launch with the

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Samsung says overheating issue in replacement Galaxy Note7 units “does not pose a safety concern”

While there have already been reports about replacement Samsung Galaxy Note7 units overheating in South Korea, a new Wall Street Journal report now says that similar complaints have been received by the company in the US as well. In many

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