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Orioles, Belichick pay tribute to shooting victims

Prior to Friday's game, the Orioles paid tribute to the five employees of The Capital Gazette who were shot to death Thursday at the newspaper's Annapolis office. In addition to a moment of silence, five lilies were placed at the paper's press box seat. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

This Woman Fell Through A Store's Ceiling While Trying To Escape Police And OMG It Was Caught On Film

Police said the woman and a man were trying to use stolen credit cards at a Reddi Mart in Alberta, Canada. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Not All Family Separations Are Occurring Along The US–Mexico Border

The case of a Hungarian boy separated from his parents is loaded with irony, since Hungary has a staunchly anti-immigrant government. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

After South Korea's World Cup Win, Mexico Supporters Have Been Accused Of Racism

The two TV hosts who were suspended for making the gesture live on TV have since apologized. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Obama Had A Plan For Central America. Then Came Trump.

The plan involved aid to Central America and a program to screen vulnerable children there. Trump not only reduced the aid, he killed part of the screening program. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

A Backlash Against #MeToo Is Simmering In Pakistan's Entertainment Industry

Meesha Shafi has faced attacks upon her character and online threats since she accused Ali Zafar of abusing her. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

After Japan Beat Colombia, A Colombian Soccer Fan Made A Japanese Woman Humiliate Herself On Camera

The man has since apologized and said his actions were the result of his “frustration and mixed feelings” after the Colombian team’s defeat. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

This Is What It’s Like To Live With Disabilities In Iran

Authorities claim they are taking measures to improve accessibility, but there's still a long way to go, a new report jointly authored by Human Rights Watch says. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

The World Cup Has Brought People All Across The World Together. But It's Treated Women Like Shit.

Apparently this shit is still happening. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

IP owners are too careful, and it’s stifling creativity in games

GUEST: Popular books, hit films and TV series, characters from graphic novels, and even toys can all be translated into the digital space, allowing fans to immerse themselves in their favorite fictional worlds — and adding new income streams and brand extensions for the intellectual property (IP) holder. This increases the possibility of brin… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

The 4 principles for building AI that benefits consumers

GUEST: Earlier this month, Google CEO Sundar Pichai published an excellent set of AI principles intended to guide the company’s AI research. The pronouncement was prompted at least in part by Google’s controversial work on Project Maven and a general call for more accountability within the AI industry. Each of the seven points listed by… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

RippleMatch uses AI to help students line up work after college

For most young adults, finding work out of school isn’t exactly a walk in the park. Two-thirds of recent college graduates struggle to launch their careers in the first few years, according to There Is Life After College author Jeffrey Selingo, and as many as 49 percent of them don’t land a job related to their field of study. That… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

How AI could improve the quality of end-of-life care

GUEST: The means to predict mortality using artificial intelligence could be a transformative factor in the future of palliative health care. While this topic may seem a bit morbid, AI has the potential to help medical care providers and doctors significantly improve the delivery of patient care in hospice situations. Getting the right kind of trea… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

WhatsApp groups can now be restricted so only admins can send messages

WhatsApp today announced a new control for group administrators to limit activity so that they are the only member of the group who can send messages. WhatsApp groups can include up to 256 participants. The approach could greatly alter what it’s like to be a part of a WhatsApp group, changing them from a place for conversation to a place for… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

May 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: that city livin’

A report claims that Microsoft is going to implement a new feature into Xbox One called Xbox Community Content that will bring mods and other creations into games at a system-wide level. Sound familiar? Well, it should. That’s similar to the Minecraft Marketplace, which had 295,850 downloads from players acquiring new content in May. And, as… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

The holy grail of the perfect customer experience

SPONSORED: Presented by Freshworks  If you’ve been in business for any respectable amount of time, you know something really, really well: Your customers don’t care how your business operation is structured, or how complicated it is for you to deliver great support. They just crave an experience that gets their job done quick and fast. And they wan… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and more down due to Comcast outage

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners are complaining about connectivity issues on social media today, but the problem seems to stem from a Comcast outage that is affecting multiple services along the East coast. Down Detector, which tracks connection problems through crowdsourced reports, had thousands of people claiming that their Comcast service is… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Battlefield V feels so good, but I’m playing it wrong

The Battlefield V closed alpha test went live yesterday, and this is giving a number of fans their first chance to try the World War II shooter. This has moved the conversation away from crying about women and character customization to the mechanics of the shooting, the movement, and the various systems. And the consensus from those fans is the sa… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

ProBeat: Windows 10 dropping Sets (again) is for the best

OPINION: Microsoft has lately been releasing Windows 10 builds on a weekly cadence. Because of a bug last week, however, this week’s build brought more than the average number of improvements (and bugs). And yet, the highlight of this build was not what was added, but what was removed: Sets. Sets, which isn’t necessarily the feature… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Shawn Layden: 9 takeaways from Sony’s worldwide game studios chief

Shawn Layden is the guy at Sony who goes on stage at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) or the PlayStation Experience event, wearing a T-shirt. That T-shirt communicates something to fans, like when Layden triggered a revival of Crash Bandicoot by wearing that T-shirt at an event, leading fans to speculate and then forcing Activision to remake… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Virtual Fighting Championship is a first-person VR Street Fighter

Competitive gamers have dreamed about a compelling first-person fighting game ever since Capcom redefined side-scrolling fighting with Street Fighter II. Now Australian indie developer L&L Studio says it will launch a promising contender called Virtual Fighting Championship (VFC) through Steam Early Access on July 13 — the first step in c… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is still weird on anything except PlayStation

I’m old enough to remember the PlayStation ads where a man in a Crash Bandicoot suit showed up to yell at Nintendo’s headquarters. For someone who grew up alongside the console wars, those commercials had the effect of showing everyone how serious Sony was about taking on its console rival. Two decades later, Sony has dropped the mascot… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

AI Weekly: Hearings on AI show Congress has no answers, either

On Tuesday this week, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittees on Research and Technology and Energy invited prominent academics, tech executives, and scientists to talk about the “game-changing” potential and implications of AI, as the hearing charter put it. It touched on a number of topics. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) sought… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

IBM researchers design a fast, power-efficient chip for AI training

Thanks to powerful graphics chips and advances in distributed computing, optimizing the algorithms at the core of artificial intelligence is easier than ever before. But it’s not particularly efficient on current-day hardware — even powerful GPUs can take days or weeks to train a neural network. That catalyzed researchers at IBM to deve… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Listen to Waluigi’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lament and bring a tissue

Waluigi is not playable in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Instead, he is once again an Assist Trophy, the Smash Bros. equivalent of a cameo appearance. It caused the Washington Post to say that “Waluigi was robbed and humiliated by Nintendo,” which I’m sure caught the attention of the Pulitzer Prize committee. Fans of Luigi’s l… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Bethereum is using blockchain technology to bring fairness to social betting

On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that betting was legal across the U.S., overturning the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act from 1992. Following the federal green light, Delaware was the first to roll out single games sport betting on June 6, with other states expected to promptly follow suit. But while the Supreme Court ad… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

How to create marketing reports your boss actually cares about

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Apple will reboot Maps using its own data, starting in iOS 12

Apple has quietly been working to rebuild its Maps application with self-gathered data, and will begin to roll out changes starting with the next beta of iOS 12, TechCrunch reports today. The process will apparently proceed slowly, starting only with data for San Francisco and the Bay Area, expanding to the rest of Northern California by fall 2018.… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

The DeanBeat: Where game developers still dare to bet big

In 2010 and 2011, the development team at Guerrilla Games in Amsterdam surveyed the landscape of video games. They had just shipped the sci-fi shooter Killzone 3, selling in the low millions of units. It was successful enough to give the studio — which was the only surviving Triple-A company in the Netherlands — another chance at making… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Fluence is using blockchain technology to build a secure internet

One of the topics discussed during the recent Cyber Week in Tel Aviv was the potential of blockchain technology to help solve issues like DDoS attacks, data breaches, and other security loopholes, as well as removing the ability for country-level service blocking, such as those we’ve seen targeted against messaging and social apps like Telegr… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen